What’s News

Here are the top business stories from today’s Wall Street Journal Asia.

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Protests rippled across the country Thursday, a day after a grand jury declined to indict a New York City police officer in the July death of Eric Garner, a black man who was placed in an apparent chokehold.

Born in Tokyo but raised mostly in Canada, Kiyoto Tsuji is among a new generation of Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers who rode Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s coattails to victory in 2012, and who are carrying the party’s torch ahead of...

Ripple has partnered with Earthport PLC, a London-based provider of cross-border global bank payment services, which will make Ripple’s software - known as its protocol - available as the core payment infrastructure as an option for its customers

The shooting of a black, unarmed drug suspect, Rumain Brisbon, by a white Phoenix police officer who mistook a pill bottle for a gun has led to protests over police tactics.

Student protesters demanding greater democracy for Hong Kong said Thursday they are more seriously weighing a retreat from the roads they have occupied for more than two months.

China said it would halt harvesting the organs of executed prisoners for transplant beginning next year, following longtime criticism from human-rights groups, though the change could add uncertainty to China’s organ supply.

Japan’s Itochu Corp. and Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Group are in talks to take a significant stake in Chinese state-owned conglomerate Citic Ltd.

Elected officials, legal experts and police officers on Thursday differed on Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan’s handling of the grand jury that declined to indict the officer involved in Eric Garner’s death.

Ethiopia completed its debut dollar-bond sale, capping off a record year for frontier-market debt issuance.

Police departments around the country are racing to develop new training rules on the use of force, a response that has gained urgency amid scrutiny from the U.S. Justice Department.

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Unilever intends to separate its struggling spreads division into a stand-alone company, potentially the first step toward the sale of a legacy business founded in 1872.