The Chinese company which owns a warehouse that exploded in Tianjin last week, killing more than 100 people, did not have a license to handle hazardous chemicals until two months before the disaster, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
The embattled speaker of Myanmar's parliament opened the lower house on Tuesday for what will likely be a fractious session, with ruling party factions facing each other for the first time since the president sacked him from a leadership post last week.
Thai authorities said on Tuesday they were looking for a suspect seen on closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage near a renowned shrine where a bomb blast killed 22 people, including nine foreigners from several Asian countries.
Brazil's Petrobras may need to pay record penalties of $1.6 billion or more to settle U.S. criminal and civil probes into its role in a corruption scandal, a person recently briefed by the company's legal advisors told Reuters.
