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Japan's Nikkei and Hong Kong's Hang Seng indexes fell by 5% or more in overnight trading before ending Tuesday down 4.1% and .85 respectively; exchanges in London, Paris and Frankfurt all opened slumping before winding up 1.7%, .4%, and 2% ahead. Compare that with Monday's 7% drop the Dow Jones and 9.1% slide on the Nasdaq...
Asian stock markets posted sharp gains Sept. 19 as investors grew more confident that stepped-up government efforts to contain the damage caused by the U.S. credit crunch would be effective. Japan's benchmark Nikkei index was up 3.8%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng 9.6% and the Shanghai stock index shot up 9.5%, recovering some of the steep losses suffered earlier in the week...
Asian markets got pummeled on Tuesday as investors dumped stocks across the region in the wake of Wall Street's worst decline in seven years. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock market index closed down nearly 5%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 5.4%, and Seoul's KOSPI index dropped 6.1%. In Taiwan, where the main index slumped 4.9%, the government encouraged banks and state funds to buy shares to support the market...
...signs point to an ugly day in Asian markets in the wake of Wall Street's worst decline in seven years. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock market index plummeted 4.6% in early trading, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 6.5%, and Seoul's KOSPI index dropped...
...G.O.D. took images of proletarian Hong Kong - tenement frontages, old movie posters - and applied them to clothes and accessories, articulating a prototypical Hong Kong identity just as the city was in the throes of decolonization. "Fashion and dress [have] always been part and parcel of social change," says Yeoh Seng Guan, a communications professor at Monash University Malaysia, "both in terms of reflecting and inciting...