In one of outsourcing’s newest frontiers, the drug-safety monitoring business is booming in India as regulators require closer tracking of side effects.
Property developer Sunac China Holdings said Sunday it has agreed to purchase assets of Kaisa Group Holdings, in a move that would help to alleviate some of the latter’s financial woes.
Irish building materials company CRH said it agreed to pay €6.5 billion for assets from Lafarge and Holcim that the two cement companies must sell to win approval for their $40 billion merger.
An Australian journalist who had been serving a seven-year jail sentence in Egypt on charges of aiding a terrorist organization was released from prison and deported, according to the Egyptian state news agency.
A pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong—the first since the three-month occupation of some major streets ended in December—drew a smaller-than-expected crowd for a loud, but orderly, march through areas where protesters once camped.
Thousands of mourners in southern Pakistan attended mass funerals this weekend as the official death toll rose in a gruesome mosque bombing that law-enforcement officials now believe was organized by the militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
A bomb exploded on a bus near Damascus’ medieval city center, killing at least seven people, including Lebanese Shiite pilgrims, according to Syrian activists and Lebanese media.