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Mileage cheating on ‘almost all’ models, says Mitsubishi

  TOKYO / AP Mitsubishi Motors cheated on fuel-efficiency testing for almost every model it sold in Japan in the last 25 years, a report said on Wednesday, fuelling questions about the size of a scandal that has plunged the automaker into crisis. Citing unnamed company sources, Japan’s Asahi newspaper said dozens of models sold in Japan have been affected ...

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Indian RBI governor’s debt headache isn’t over yet

  Mumbai / Bloomberg Investors who anticipated that India central bank Governor Raghuram Rajan would bring order to a bad debt-plagued banking system by now are being forced to ratchet back those expectations. Results from ICICI Bank Ltd. and Axis Bank Ltd. two weeks ago and comments from their top managers fuelled concerns that dud loans will continue to pile ...

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Brazil’s Senate opens Rousseff impeachment vote session

  Brasília / AFP Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday launched a pivotal debate on the future of President Dilma Rousseff, who faces likely suspension and an impeachment trial that could end 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s biggest country. Even allies of Rousseff, 68, said she had no chance of surviving the vote, expected later in the day after ...

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