Nestle SA(NESN.VX), battling a reputation crisis in India, pulled its Maggi instant noodles from stores across the country on Friday after regulators reported some packets contained excess lead.
China is currently amending rules on margin trading and short selling and will publish them when "time is ripe," the securities regulator said on Friday.
Hackers broke into U.S. government computers, possibly compromising the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees, and investigators were probing whether the culprits were based in China, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
Vietnam is in talks with European and U.S. contractors to buy fighter jets, maritime patrol planes and unarmed drones, sources said, as it looks to beef up its aerial defenses in the face of China's growing assertiveness in disputed waters.
