Dec 8 (Reuters) - Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced a shock move on Nov. 8 to ditch 500 and 1,000 rupee notes - worth a combined $256 billion - that he said were fuelling corruption, being ...

HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - India's shock move on Tuesday to withdraw large denomination bank notes from circulation to fight corruption and tax evasion has left some overseas citizens high and ...

By gaining control of a major part of the global supply chain, China now wields quiet but significant influence over the ...

The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has issued a letter of intent to China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation for the design, ...

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You may have heard of the demonetization of bank notes in India. That means the country has officially withdrawn recognition of the validity of certain currency denominations. The move was undertaken ...

ON NOVEMBER 8th 2016, Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, stunned its 1.3bn people by announcing that most banknotes would soon become worthless. Indians then queued for weeks on end to exchange or ...

Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the central bank of the country, sent a letter of intent to China Banknote Printing and Minting ...

(NEW DELHI) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced that 500 and 1,000 rupee banknotes would be withdrawn from circulation at midnight, saying it was part of a crackdown on rampant ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indians awoke to confusion Wednesday after the government withdrew the highest-denomination currency notes overnight to halt money laundering in a country where many in the poor and ...

A journalist takes a video of the new Indian Rupees 500 currency on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, at the Reserve Bank of India in Mumbai. The government stripped all 500- and 1,000-rupee notes of value in ...