Moody's Investor Services said it was appealing against a tribunal decision that partly upheld regulatory action imposed for a report on Chinese companies, a rare move that could ultimately redefine the boundaries of public research reports.

A spate of high-profile scandals at leading Japanese companies show reforms and rhetoric aimed at improving the country's corporate governance do not go far enough to unwind the culture of secrecy and hierarchy that plagues Japan Inc.

An executive from British consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser was slapped during an emotional news conference as he apologized over deadly lung injuries linked to the use of humidifier sterilizers marketed by the firm.

Singapore's central bank and white-collar crime police are probing several broking firms and trading representatives as part of an investigation into possible breaches of the securities act.

Indonesia and the Philippines are the two South East Asian stock markets benefiting most from investors' return to emerging markets this year, with foreign funds undeterred by them becoming the region's most expensive markets.

The Seychelles is helping an international investigation into the troubled state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the state's Financial Intelligence Unit on the Indian Ocean archipelago said.

Singapore police have charged a former employee at Swiss private bank BSI for acquiring property in the city-state using ill-gotten funds, making him the second BSI banker in the city-state to come under scrutiny by authorities this year.

Malaysia is proposing to amend an act to allow the government to seize control of land where big fires are discovered, as part of its long-term efforts to curb haze from slash-and-burn forest clearing techniques usually linked to palm oil plantations.

The government of Oman has chosen five banks to arrange the sultanate's first international bond issue in almost 20 years, sources aware of the matter said.

Mitsubishi Motors Corp's fuel economy scandal broadened on Friday as U.S. auto safety authorities said they were seeking information, and media reported that the automaker had submitted misleading data on at least one more model than disclosed and likely several others.