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• Oil steady after US manufacturing growth slows

  Oil prices were steady on Tuesday after data showed US manufacturing growth slowed in March.

• Southeast Asia ready to build, but will investors come?

  Easy global liquidity and investors' eagerness to tap one of the world's few fast-growing regions should create a sweet spot for the region to fill the $600 billion in infrastructure needs the Asian Development Bank identifies over the next decade. But infrastructure experts say a shortage of projects offering compelling returns, coupled with stifl...

• Oil nearly unchanged as Cyprus worries grow

  Oil prices were nearly unchanged on Friday after a big dip the day before as the financial crisis in Cyprus kept traders on the edge.

• Oil falls after ECB says euro zone economy weak

  The price of crude oil fell on Tuesday after European Central Bank head described the economic outlook of the 17 countries that use the euro as weak in the near term.

• Indian financier jailed over Asian crisis-era fraud in Thailand

  A Thai court jailed Rakesh Saxena for 10 years for embezzlement that sparked the Asian crisis.

• Indian jailed for financial fraud in Thailand

  A Thai court jailed an Indian financier for ten years on Friday for massive embezzlement that helped bankrupt a Thai bank in the mid-1990s and spark a crisis in the financial sector that spread through Asia in 1997.

• Google charts a careful course through Asia's maps

  Google rushed out its panoramic Street View maps in Thailand on Friday as part of the country's efforts to show tourist hot spots have recovered from last year's floods.

• Kingfisher flights to small cities to be affected

  The cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines' operations from tier-II and tier-III cities are likely to be affected until March end, industry sources said. The airline has not issued any statement on its Kolkata operations despite flights from Kolkata to Delhi, Mumbai, Bhubaneswar, Bagdogra, Aizwal, Silchar, Dhaka and Bangkok being taken off the ticketing...

• 'Bankgok is a toilet without a flush'

  As Thailand's ailing king surveys the calamitous scene from his 16th floor hospital window, the 83-year-old monarch encounters an element that has challenged, virtually obsessed, him most of his life: water. It's rising around him, the floodwaters sweeping through Bangkok and overflowing the banks of the Menam Chao Phraya, the River of Kings, that ...