Bloomberg After more than a year of disinflation, price pressures are quickly mounting across South-east Asia as fuel costs rise, putting central banks on watch after years of policy easing. In Malaysia, consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in almost a year in January and economists see that as closing the door on another interest-rate cut this year …

  Bloomberg A European Union bad bank would go a long way towards reducing the 1.2 trillion-euro ($1.3 trillion) mountain of soured loans on lenders’ books, but that relief may be a long time coming, according to the bloc’s bank regulator. Andrea Enria, chairman of the European Banking Authority (EBA) has proposed setting up a bloc-wide asset-management company to take …

  PALORINYA / AP In the bushland of northern Uganda, a recently arrived refugee from South Sudan describes how soldiers detained and tortured him for two months back home for reading an article online. Tall and thin as a reed, dirt coating his tattered T-shirt and jeans, the young man is one of more than 100,000 people who have fled a …