TOKYO: Tokyo stocks fell Tuesday morning after North Korea launched a missile over Japan that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described as an “unprecedented, serious and grave threat.”The benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 0.61 per cent, or 118.95 points, to 19,330.95 by the break while the Topix index of all first-section issues was down 0.27 per cent, or 4.33 points, at 1,595.79.

Source: New Strait Times August 29, 2017 02:37 UTC