Kim Jong Nam, the oldest half-brother of North Korean’s leader Kim Jong Un, was murdered in Malaysia more than a week ago. Initial report said that two unidentified women killed Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur’s airport with a poison needle and fled the scene. Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son of former leader Kim Jong Il, had lived …

  DUBAI / Reuters Gulf stocks generally moved little in thin trade on Sunday but new listings surged on Saudi Arabia’s secondary market as that bourse, which has less onerous listing requirements than the main Riyadh market, opened its doors for the first time. The main Saudi index edged up 0.1 percent. Real estate investment trusts, which have been soaring …

  Bloomberg China’s insurance regulator banned Evergrande Life Insurance Co. from stock investments for one year, stepping up its crackdown on the industry’s most “radical” investors in a bid to rein in risks. The China Insurance Regulatory Commission also lowered Evergrande Life’s ceiling on equity holdings to 20 percent of assets, from a 30 percent requirement, and barred two executives …