Bloomberg Belarus said Maria Kalesnikava, one of the Belarusian opposition’s top organisers, was detained at the border with Ukraine after being reported missing as President Alexander Lukashenko targets leaders of month-long protests against his 26-year rule. Two of Kalesnikava’s colleagues on the united opposition’s coordinating council, spokesman Anton Radniankou and its executive secretary Ivan Krautsou, crossed into Ukraine, leaving Kalesnikava ...

Bloomberg Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) officially started its campaign for a new leader, with the man all but assured to take over from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe praising the democracy that allowed his political rise. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, who already has enough backing from the LDP’s powerful factions to win the party vote next week, formally ...

Bloomberg Australia’s central bank (RBA) will boost its bond-buying program or cut interest rates to help revive the economy from its first recession in almost 30 years, a survey showed. Seven of 11 economists predict the Reserve Bank will ramp up quantitative easing by expanding its bond purchasing program, with UBS Group AG’s George Tharenou positing that this could begin ...