Companies may be forced to reveal their ethnicity pay gap under plans unveiled by the prime minister to help minorities at work.

Asian markets are broadly lower after Wall Street slumped on a heavy selling of technology and internet stocks.

Google appeals record $5 billion European Union fine in Android antitrust case.

A deadly crash involving a stretched limousine-style SUV in New York state over the weekend has put a spotlight on safety concerns around the modified vehicles, but industry players maintain they’re safe.

On Saturday the limousine, built from a 2001 Ford Excursion, ran a stop sign, crossed three lanes of traffic and hit a parked SUV before stopping in a wooded ditch. Two pedestrians and all 18 people in the limo celebrating a woman’s birthday died.

Vancouver Island-based Catalyst Paper Corp. has reached an agreement to sell its operations to Paper Excellence Canada of Richmond.

The Japanese online retail tycoon who plans to travel to the moon on the SpaceX rocket says he respects and trusts Elon Musk as a fellow entrepreneur, despite his recent troubles.

As we glide silently up Amsterdam’s busy waterways on an unseasonably warm autumn morning, boat company owner Rik Kooij, 38, admits that “canal water runs in my veins”.

• Chinese stocks plunged Monday, with the China A50 index losing more than 4.8% in trading.
• A weeklong holiday for Chinese markets meant investors had an entire five days of news and data to digest in just one session, including an escalation of the trade war between China and the US.
• News also emerged over the weekend that China’s central bank would cut the required reserve ratio for Chinese banks by 1%.

Chinese stocks took a hammering Monday as traders returned to work after a weeklong holiday in the world’s second-largest economy.

Asian stocks retreat as IMF downgrades economic outlook.

Japanese online retail tycoon planning trip to the noon on SpaceX rocket says he respects and trusts fellow entrepreneur Elon Musk, despite his recent troubles.