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(24 Apr) - The Singaporean state investment company Temasek Holdings is to stage a protest vote for the second consecutive year at next month's annual meeting of Standard Chartered, the emerging markets bank. I have learnt that Temasek, which holds an 18.2% stake in StanChart, intends to abstain from supporting the re-election... 

State of Jharkhand (25 Apr) - Two six-year-old school girls have been raped, one strangled to death, in the latest horrendous sex crime to plague Asia’s third largest economy. Police said the body of a young girl was found bleeding in an under-construction building in Ranchi district of the eastern state of Jharkhand on Thursday.... 

(26 Apr) - No company symbolizes German industrial might like Daimler, the giant maker of Mercedes-Benz autos and trucks. So when the company said this week that it, too, had finally been caught in the downdraft of the European economic crisis, it was an ominous sign for all of the Continent, if not the whole world. German...