Turkey’s central bank said Tuesday that inflation could sink to its lowest in 45 years, pushed down by falling oil prices and the country’s tight monetary policy. Central bank governor…

Oil fell in Asia Monday after the anti-austerity party Syriza swept to victory in Greece’s general elections, dealing a further blow to the struggling euro, analysts said. US benchmark West…

India is betting that mobile phone vendors, fuel stations and corner stores can help it put basic banking within the grasp of hundreds of millions of its poor people living…

Saudi Arabia’s new leadership will push forward efforts to diversify the growing but oil-dependent economy, while easing procedures for investors, senior officials said on Monday. “The smooth transition of power…

 Bangladeshi authorities should immediately drop criminal charges against two senior members of the leading human rights organization Odhikar, and end the surveillance and harassment of its workers both in Dhaka and…

THOSE living in dictatorships often harbour the delusion that the point of democracy is that you get the government you want. Those living in democracies soon realise that is not…

Two ladies eyed each other from their elegant residences in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, last week, each waiting to see whether the other would blink, reports Ellen Barry, The New…

Bangladesh authorities should immediately end arbitrary arrests of opposition party members and others, Human Rights Watch said today. Arrests have continued even after the ruling Awami League party and its allies…