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Legal setbacks to Trump travel ban mount

  In yet another setback to Trump travel ban, a federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from implementing its travel ban in Virginia. It adds to the already existing judicial ruling in place challenging the ban’s constitutionality. Trump issued an executive order in January barring people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from US for 90 ...

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India coal deal may prove a truckload of dying embers

  Fancy a truckload of the world’s biggest coal miner? New Delhi is planning to sell a 10 percent stake in Coal India Ltd., the Economic Times reported, without saying where it got the information. Such a deal could be worth about 197 billion rupees ($2.9 billion) at current market prices, and would reduce the government’s share in the company ...

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PCCW chasing blue sky is a costly new dawn

  In the space of a week, PCCW Ltd., Richard Li’s company, has cheered investors by getting out of the U.K., then brought them back to earth with plans to bulk up video streaming in Asia. Days after Li sold the loss-making British broadband provider to his father Li Ka-shing, PCCW is disposing of a $1.1 billion stake in telecom ...

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