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Most Southeast Asian stock markets rose on Thursday with Indonesia leading gains ahead of its central bank's policy meet, while Singapore shares declined following a fall in the country's non-oil exports. Indonesian index rose 0.6 percent ahead of the policy rate decisions of the central bank...

Adoption would attract Labour support but deeply anger Eurosceptics and DUP

Taiwan will not bow to Chinese pressure and called for international support against Beijing's "out-of-control actions", a presidential spokesman said on Thursday, after Beijing urged companies to change the way they refer to the self-ruled island.

Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and a critic of the Fed's recent round of interest rate hikes, on Wednesday said the U.S. central bank is as well positioned now as before the 2007-2009 financial crisis to fight a downturn.

Australia's benchmark share index rose to its highest level in more than two months on Thursday on stronger financials and materials, though investors held off on making big bets ahead of a slew of production reports by major resource companies.

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John Bogle, whose family's struggles during the Great Depression led him to pioneer low-cost investing and to found Vanguard Group, now the world's biggest mutual fund firm, died on Wednesday at the age of 89, Vanguard said.

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