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Senior US official to travel to China for rare visit: govt
Jun 03, 2023 (AFP)
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink will travel to China and New Zealand from June 4-10, the US State Department ...
Asian, European markets surge on Fed rate hopes
Jun 02, 2023 (AFP)
With US default worries out of the way after senators passed a debt ceiling bill for President Joe Biden to sign following months of wrangling, attention has re...
Asian markets surge on Fed rate hopes
Jun 02, 2023 (AFP)
With US default worries out of the way after senators passed a debt ceiling bill for President Joe Biden to sign following months of wrangling, attention has re...
Ajay Banga starts work as new World Bank president
Jun 02, 2023 (AFP)
"We are at a critical moment in the arc of humanity and the planet," Banga wrote Friday morning in an email to staff obtained by AFP, calling on the bank to "ev...
BRICS ministers open to enlargement as Putin looms large
Jun 01, 2023 (AFP)
Foreign ministers from the five-nation grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa called for a "rebalancing" of the global order, as they met in ...
Australia 'hopeful' China will lift barley tariffs
Jun 01, 2023 (AFP)
Australia has this year resumed exports of coal and timber, which were among a slew of commodities hit by Chinese import bans and restrictions as diplomatic rel...
Stocks mixed as US debt bill news offset by Fed, China worries
Jun 01, 2023 (AFP)
After weeks of brinkmanship, Democrats and Republicans came together to push through an agreement to lift the debt ceiling in rare bipartisan cooperation. Hardl...
China factory activity declines further in May
May 31, 2023 (AFP)
The official manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) -- a key measure of factory output -- fell to 48.8 this month, below the 50-point mark that separate...
Markets tumble as hardline Republicans threaten US debt deal
May 31, 2023 (AFP)
Further signs that China's post-pandemic recovery was fading added to the downbeat mood on trading floors, as did worries that the US Federal Reserve is likely ...
Asian markets mixed as traders await US debt ceiling vote
May 30, 2023 (AFP)
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hammered out an agreement at the weekend that saw both sides give ground, a week before a June 5 deadline w...
Equity markets mixed as traders await US debt ceiling vote
May 30, 2023 (AFP)
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hammered out an agreement at the weekend that saw both sides give ground, a week before a June 5 deadline w...
WTO to rule in Indonesia-EU steel stand-off
May 30, 2023 (AFP)
The WTO's Dispute Settlement Body decided to examine the countervailing and anti-dumping measures Brussels has imposed on imports of stainless-steel cold-rolled...
Crypto here to stay, must be regulated: Hong Kong treasury chief
May 30, 2023 (AFP)
Cryptocurrencies have been banned in mainland China since 2021, but the former British colony, which has a separate financial system and regulators, has announc...
Asian markets rally as traders welcome US debt deal
May 29, 2023 (AFP)
After weeks of wrangling, the two announced that an agreement had finally been reached and urged lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to vote for it before the ...
Hong Kong treads fine line on regulating retail crypto trade
May 28, 2023 (AFP)
Global crypto markets have yet to recover from a string of high-profile failures in recent months, including the spectacular downfall of trading platform FTX an...
Iraq unveils $17 bn transport project linking Europe and Mideast
May 27, 2023 (AFP)
Once completed, the $17 billion project known as the "Route of Development" would span the length of the country, stretching 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) from t...
Travel industry looks to Chinese tourists to cap post-Covid rebound
May 26, 2023 (AFP)
Jet makers, airline executives and hotel tycoons at this week's Qatar Economic Forum spoke of an apparently insatiable demand for travel. Chinese tourists, now ...
Washington concerned by China moves against US companies
May 26, 2023 (AFP)
The officials, who met in Washington, "had candid and substantive discussions on issues relating to the US-China commercial relationship," the US Department of ...
US, China wrangle on trade in rare talks
May 26, 2023 (AFP)
Minister Wang Wentao met US Trade Representative Katherine Tai on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation trade meeting in Detroit, a day after he...
US default would harm military 'readiness, morale': top US officer
May 25, 2023 (AFP)
"There would be a very significant negative impact on the readiness, morale and capabilities of United States military if we defaulted," as well as "reputationa...
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