Seoul / AFP South Korea said on Monday it will fine Nissan for manipulating emissions data on a popular diesel sports utility vehicle, bringing the Japanese car giant into a widening global scandal that has already ensnared Volkswagen and Mitsubishi. Seoul said it would order recalls of hundreds of Qashqai model SUVs after tests revealed an emission defeat system …

  New Delhi / Bloomberg India’s wholesale prices unexpectedly rose for the first time since October 2014, mirroring a hardening in consumer inflation that could prompt central bank Governor Raghuram Rajan to refrain from further cuts in interest rates. Wholesale prices rose 0.34 percent in April from a year earlier after an 0.85 percent decrease the previous month, the Commerce …

  Bangkok / Bloomberg Thailand’s economy grew more than analysts estimated in the first quarter as the military government’s spending helped counter weak local demand and exports. Gross domestic product expanded 3.2 percent in the three months through March from a year earlier, the National Economic and Social Development Board said in Bangkok Monday. That compares with the 2.8 percent …