BEIJING (Reuters) - China's car sales fell 5.8% in April from a year earlier, industry data showed on Friday, as a ferocious price war and incentives failed to shake off consumers' caution about spending on big items during a shaky economic recovery.
While the share of new energy vehicle sales scaled a new high, paving the way for the world's largest auto market to fast-track its green goal, sales of electric vehicles are still far slower than those of... (continue reading...)
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top court gave temporary bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case on Friday, allowing him to campaign in the ongoing general elections, boosting the opposition alliance of which he is a key leader.
The seven-phase vote has been marred by charges that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is using investigating agencies to hurt rivals, accusations the government denies.
The... (continue reading...)
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a cabinet reshuffle on Friday, with the coordinator of special services Tomasz Siemoniak taking on the additional post of interior minister.
The reshuffle was forced as four ministers in the pro-European coalition government led by Tusk's Civic Coalition (KO) are stepping down to run in European Parliament elections in June. Tusk said a major task of his government was to make state-owned... (continue reading...)
LONDON (Reuters) - The British arm of German supermarket group Lidl said it would lift wages by over 3% in June, giving thousands of workers a third pay rise in 12 months.
Lidl said on Friday it would raise pay for staff across Britain to 12.40 pounds per hour from 12 pounds per hour, while London-based staff would receive 13.65 pounds per hour, up from 13.55.
Pay rises at big employers like Lidl, which employs 32,000 people across... (continue reading...)
By Tetsushi Kajimoto
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy likely contracted an annualised 1.5% in the January-March quarter as all key drivers of growth slumped due to an uncertain outlook, a Reuters poll showed, which will probably set back Bank of Japan efforts to raise interest rates.
Cabinet Office data due out at 8:50 a.m. on May 16 (2350 GMT on May 15) is expected to show the economy's contraction would be equivalent to monthly decline... (continue reading...)
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