Asia Morning Headlines: Allies face fight over Syria timetable, Brazil raise...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Thursday August 29 2013     Asia homepage   Allies face fight over Syria timetable   UN secretary-general throws up a further obstacle in the way of Washington's and London's apparent drive for military action       Brazil raises rates for fourth time since April     Rupee tumble dents India's confidence     Amazon takes tax fight to Supreme Court     US stocks rally but Syria nerves remain     BofA's Merrill to settle race bias case     Skype's first decade and a trail of missed opportunity     Nintendo cuts prices in console wars     Scientists create human 'mini-brain'     Real Madrid set to smash £80m transfer record         World News   Echoes of Iraq are eerie but misleading   The situation in Syria, which has already been churned up by two years of civil war, is much more confused than in pre-war Iraq       Fears on aims and consequences of strike     Eurozone presses Athens over real estate     Mao-era thrift shunned for good life on credit     Iran boosts uranium enrichment capacity   Markets   Oil could rise further on Syrian action   Talk of western airstrikes on the Syrian regime has added $7, or more than 6 per cent, to the price of benchmark Brent crude in just two days       Tanzania seeks to launch maiden $1bn bond issue     'Sudden death' bank bonds on increase     End of UK gilt bull run in sight     Eurozone heading for a debt crisis relapse   Asia & Pacific News   Keep pressing Kim on human rights   The tendency to see North Korea as a bad joke somehow takes the pressure off the world to probe its catastrophic human rights record       Tepco to retain control of Fukushima site     Australian construction, Europe sentiment   Asia-Pacific Companies News   Asia: Storm defences tested   Emerging markets are less vulnerable to shocks than they were in the late 1990s but too much of their growth has been built on easy credit       PetroChina hit by detention of executives     Singapore private banking shake-up looms     Fraser and Neave: farewell     Fonterra products pose no botulism threat         Manage email    Forward this email   Feedback    Manage portfolio Subscribe to the FT Follow the FT   Unsubscribe | My Account | RSS | Privacy Policy | About Us | Help   © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2013 You have received this email because you have signed up from the NBE preference page. This email was sent by a company owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL. Registered in England and Wales with company number 53723.