Global toll-road investor Macquarie Infrastructure Group said it plans to split its portfolio of roads into two separately listed entities, with Macquarie Group remaining as manager of only the more risky portfolio.

Bharti Airtel posted lower than expected 13% growth in net profit in its second quarter, as increasing competition weighed on key operational parameters.

The Afghan election panel said it will increase the number of polling centers for the presidential runoff, sparking concerns of potential fraud.

Hillary Clinton, visiting Pakistan’s cultural heartland, came face-to-face with the challenges of winning local support for the U.S. campaign against militants along the Afghan border.

An alleged member of the Hamburg terror cell linked to the Sept. 11 attacks may be among al Qaeda leaders helping the Taliban fight Pakistani forces.

Blackstone Group formally launched a Shanghai investment unit Friday, and signed its first local investor for a new Chinese yuan-denominated fund.

Japan’s core consumer price index fell for the seventh straight month in September, as commodities remained cheaper than a year earlier and consumers cut spending.

Japanese officials abruptly shifted course Thursday in their efforts to restructure the carrier, handing the task to a new government-led group to formulate its third rehabilitation plan in two months.

SouthGobi plans to use an investment by China’s sovereign-wealth fund to boost coal production to become a major supplier to western China.

Mongolia’s parliament confirmed one of the country’s wealthiest men as the new prime minister of the impoverished but resource-rich nation.