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Island tensions simmer as China, Japan vow to boost trade ties
Nov 24, 2020 (AFP)
The two countries had been working to improve historically tense relations before the pandemic erupted, and China's President Xi Jinping had been expected for a...
Stocks boosted as Biden starts White House transition
Nov 24, 2020 (AFP)
However, the mood on trading floors continues to be tinged by surging virus infections and deaths that have forced governments to impose or consider reimposing ...
Do China tech giants pose a risk for European banks?
Nov 22, 2020 (AFP)
The European finance sector has in recent years seen the emergence of a large number of startups -- called fintech -- which have sought to disrupt brick and mor...
China mulls joining trade pact dumped by Trump: Xi
Nov 20, 2020 (AFP)
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is an updated version of a giant deal originally backed by former US president...
Trump joins APEC summit as China counters US protectionism
Nov 20, 2020 (AFP)
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) gathering, held virtually this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, brings together leaders from 21 Pacific Rim econo...
Asia markets mostly rise but virus surge darkens mood
Nov 20, 2020 (AFP)
Trading floors were also battling a similar problem with Washington as the Treasury and Federal Reserve knocked heads over extending lending measures, just as l...
Xi touts China's huge economy as base of free trade in APEC speech
Nov 19, 2020 (AFP)
Buoyed by the signing of the world's largest trade pact over the weekend, Xi said the Asia-Pacific is the "forerunner driving global growth" in a world hit by "...
China to push trade agenda at APEC summit as US retreats
Nov 18, 2020 (AFP)
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, held online this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, brings together 21 Pacific Rim countries includin...
China targets frozen food imports over virus fears
Nov 18, 2020 (AFP)
Workers in hazmat suits were painstakingly screening food shipments across a country which has largely brought domestic infections under control but now blames ...
Sri Lanka to open up Chinese-backed 'port city', offer tax breaks
Nov 17, 2020 (AFP)
Colombo Port City -- a $1.4 billion land reclamation project beside the capital's port which started in 2014 -- has doubled the size of Sri Lanka's current fina...
China's consumer spending picks up in October
Nov 16, 2020 (AFP)
Although China has largely brought the coronavirus under control, spending has been slower to recover as the world still grapples with the impact of the pandemi...
Vaccine hopes help push Asian equities higher
Nov 16, 2020 (AFP)
However, while there is growing expectation a treatment will be available in the new year, gains were tempered by worries about a spike in the disease in the US...
Airbnb says sharing model proved 'resilient' amid pandemic
Nov 16, 2020 (AFP)
Japan finds luring business from Hong Kong may be tough
Nov 15, 2020 (AFP)
"I want to make Tokyo Asia's number one financial city," Governor Yuriko Koike said in October, as the Japanese capital opened an information centre in Hong Kon...
World's largest free trade agreement signed in coup for China
Nov 15, 2020 (AFP)
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) includes 10 Southeast Asian economies along with China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia, wi...
Asia markets take fresh hit as virus surge trumps vaccine hope
Nov 13, 2020 (AFP)
The rally fuelled by excitement over a possible vaccine before 2021 and relief at Joe Biden's US election win has given way to the reality that while there is l...
Shoppers shrug off pandemic, pollution ahead of India's biggest festival
Nov 12, 2020 (AFP)
Shoppers looking for food and last-minute gifts before the Diwali festival of lights said they were fed up with being cooped up, no matter the deadly threats ar...
China confirms ban on some Australian timber imports
Nov 12, 2020 (AFP)
Beijing -- Australia's biggest trade partner -- has threatened economic blowback since Canberra called for an inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic, and has alread...
Asia markets extend global rally on vaccine hope
Nov 10, 2020 (AFP)
Wall Street and European shares soared with oil prices while safe-haven assets tumbled Monday when US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTec...
China inflation dips to 11-year low as pork stocks rise
Nov 10, 2020 (AFP)
The cost of pork -- a staple meat in the world's second-largest economy -- has been edging down after rocketing last year when an African swine fever outbreak r...
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