Honda is starting temporary production reductions and stoppages this week at North American factories.

Most Americans haven’t been affected by the shutdown yet, a recent poll found, but its impacts could expand greatly in the coming days.

The direct action taken by companies to cut jobs, for different reasons, may act as a warning that a snowball effect could be in the works.

India plans to reduce its polio disease monitoring system. The move could risk allowing polio and other diseases to resurface amid ongoing regional virus threats.

(LEAD) SK Telecom-Q3 earnings SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) -- SK Telecom Co., South Korea' leading mobile carrier, said Thursday its third-quarter earnings swung to a net deficit from a year earlier due mainly to massive compensation costs following a data...