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Women on the minimum wage in Ghana have to spend one in every seven dollars they earn on sanitary pads, research by the BBC has found. The BBC surveyed nine…

At the end of last year, the lease on Eva Teh’s flat in central Singapore came up for renewal. The Singaporean and her husband were expecting their monthly rent to…

Zimbabwe has produced a record amount of tobacco this year, with 263,000 tonnes sold so far this season. The agriculture ministry said that 85% of the production came from small-scale…

Samsung Electronics will cut memory chip production after estimating a 96% drop in its quarterly operating profit. The chip-making giant said sales had dropped sharply due to a slow global…

The prospect of a possible strike at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Australia has pushed wholesale gas prices up in Europe. The Offshore Alliance union warned that a…

  Japanese motor industry giant Toyota has suspended operations at all of its assembly plants in its home country due to a glitch in its production system. The move has…