BERUWALA, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been a polarizing figure for much of his political life. It is an image he is trying to change.
NEW DELHI India is targeting companies including Apple, Foxconn and Wistron Corp with a charm offensive aimed at encouraging them to shift business out of trade war-hit China, according to a source and a document seen by Reuters.
JAKARTA/MUMBAI China's Xiaomi is poised to launch a consumer lending business in India in the coming weeks, making an ambitious tilt at the booming financial services market where data privacy concerns and fierce competition present formidable challenges.
MUMBAI/COLOMBO India's Reliance Industries Ltd on Monday announced a partnership with Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, in a move that deepens the offerings of its Jio telecoms unit while posing a direct challenge to rival cloud services providers such as Amazon.com and Alphabet's Google .
COLOMBO Sri Lanka's main opposition party named a hardline former defence chief as its presidential candidate on Sunday, seeking to capitalise on public clamour for a decisive leader after deadly Easter day bombings.
COLOMBO Sri Lanka could lose access to global debt markets if a new government shifts away from the country's current fiscal policy that's aimed at shoring up the economy and managing inflation, a central bank official said on Friday.
COLOMBO Sri Lanka's state-run airline is set to report a loss of up to $160 million (£131.70 million) loss this year, as tourism in the island nation suffers following the Easter bombings, the carrier's chief executive said.
COLOMBO, Aug 7 Sri Lanka's state-run airline is set to report a loss of up to$160 million loss this year, as tourism in the island nation suffers following the Easter bombings, the carrier's chief executive said.
MUMBAI India's top court has given the central bank six weeks to report on whether WhatsApp had complied with data localization norms as the Facebook-owned messenger gears up to launch a payments service in the country, a person involved in the matter said.
BENGALURU/MUMBAI Indian software services exporter Wipro Ltd reported a 13% rise in first-quarter profit thanks to robust demand from financial clients and said its main information technology business could show modest growth in the current quarter.
Iran said on Saturday it was now capable of raising uranium enrichment past the 20% level and had launched advanced centrifuge machines in further breaches of commitments to limit its nuclear activity under a 2015 deal with world powers.