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Israel's agricultural damages reach $77m in 2019

Israel's agricultural damages reach $77m in 2019

-- 2020-01-02 12:43:21

Israeli agricultural damages totalled 265 million new shekels (about 77 million US dollars) in 2019, according to a government report published Wednesday. The average annual damage over the last 5 ye...

Oman approves 2020 budget

Oman approves 2020 budget

-- 2020-01-02 12:33:09

Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman has issued a royal decree that approves the country's general budget for the fiscal year 2020. According to a statement of the Omani Ministry of Finance, the revenue of...

Netanyahu asks for immunity from prosecution

Netanyahu asks for immunity from prosecution

-- 2020-01-02 11:11:40

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has decided to seek parliamentary immunity from prosecution over corruption charges. The move would likely delay a trial until after fresh elections ne...

S Korea's export posts double-digit fall in 2019

S Korea's export posts double-digit fall in 2019

-- 2020-01-01 13:49:36

South Korea's export logged a double-digit fall last year, marking the first yearly decline in 10 years, a government report showed Wednesday. Export, which accounts for about half of the export-driv...

Kim says North Korea to show ‘new strategic weapon’

Kim says North Korea to show ‘new strategic weapon’

-- 2020-01-01 11:19:55

North Korea’s leader plans to further develop nuclear programmes and to introduce a “new strategic weapon” in the near future, state media said on Wednesday, but he left room for dia...

Indian capital reels from coldest day in more than a century

Indian capital reels from coldest day in more than a century

-- 2019-12-31 14:59:36

India's capital Delhi has recorded its chilliest day in more than a century amid a severe cold wave across the northern part of the country. Thick fog blanketed the city on Monday as the maximum day...

Mongolia's economy grows 7.3 pc in 2019

Mongolia's economy grows 7.3 pc in 2019

-- 2019-12-31 14:58:58

The prime minister of Mongolia Ukhnaa Khurelsukh said the country’s economy grew around 7.3 per cent year on year in 2019, compared to 1.2 per cent in 2016. The Prime Minister revealed the info...

Brazilian analysts predict 2.3pc economic growth in 2020

Brazilian analysts predict 2.3pc economic growth in 2020

-- 2019-12-31 14:43:45

Brazilian financial analysts elevated projections for the growth of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 from 2.28 to 2.30 per cent, the Central Bank announced on Monday. According to t...

Asian shares at 18-month highs; Nikkei finishes year up 18 per cent

Asian shares at 18-month highs; Nikkei finishes year up 18 per cent

REUTERS 2019-12-30 13:41:44

A broad gauge of Asian share markets rose to an 18-month high on Monday as Chinese equities gained, while oil touched three-month highs on a combination of US crude inventory drawdowns, trade optimism...

Shooter among two dead in livestreamed Texas church attack

Shooter among two dead in livestreamed Texas church attack

-- 2019-12-30 11:04:26

A gunman opened fire in a church in Texas, fatally shooting two parishioners before being killed by an armed member of the congregation. The gunman stood up from a pew at West Freeway Church of Chris...

Fire at Russia's Novatek oil and gas field kills two

Fire at Russia's Novatek oil and gas field kills two

-- 2019-12-28 15:10:32

Two people have been killed and one injured in a fire in an elevator at Russia’s Novatek northern oil and gas field, news agencies reported on Saturday citing emergency ministry officials. The...

Philippines records 8.0m foreign tourists this yr

Philippines records 8.0m foreign tourists this yr

-- 2019-12-28 13:41:14

Tourism is booming in the Philippines with more than eight million visitors coming in 2019, the government said on Saturday. "Breaking the eight-million mark is another milestone to celebrate, as it...

India's financial system stable despite weaker economic growth: RBI

India's financial system stable despite weaker economic growth: RBI

REUTERS 2019-12-28 10:53:51

India’s financial system remains stable even after economic growth plummeted to a six-year low, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Friday. “Reviving the twin engines of consumption a...

US think tank urges continued US-China engagement for global benefit

US think tank urges continued US-China engagement for global benefit

-- 2019-12-26 14:09:54

The growing cooperation between China and the United States will benefit not only the two countries but the rest of the world, said a leading think tank based in San Francisco. In a report released t...

Indian citizenship protests: Modi, BJP misread the mood

Indian citizenship protests: Modi, BJP misread the mood

Reuters 2019-12-26 12:28:34

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government did not anticipate the protests against a new citizenship law that have raged across the country and is now scrambling to control the damage, mem...

Seven die as migrants’ boat sinks in Turkey’s Lake Van

Seven die as migrants’ boat sinks in Turkey’s Lake Van

-- 2019-12-26 11:38:04

Seven people died and 64 were rescued when a boat carrying migrants sank in eastern Turkey’s Lake Van, the state-owned Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. The agency said the boat sank ne...

Trump says he and Xi will sign China trade deal

Trump says he and Xi will sign China trade deal

Reuters 2019-12-25 15:09:09

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (local time) he and Chinese President Xi Jinping will have a signing ceremony to sign the first phase of the US-China trade deal agreed to this month. &ldquo...

Philippine typhoon Phanfone ruins Christmas for travelers

Philippine typhoon Phanfone ruins Christmas for travelers

-- 2019-12-25 14:14:21

Christmas turned to chaos for many holiday observers in the central Philippines as a typhoon with strong winds and heavy rains destroyed homes, cut off power and stranded travelers, disaster officials...

Yearend: US economy slows in 2019

Yearend: US economy slows in 2019

-- 2019-12-25 12:56:32

The US economy, supported by robust consumer spending and a strong job market, has maintained a moderate pace of growth as 2019 draws to a close. While worries about an immediate recession have abat...

0.1m Sri Lankan refugees missing from India’s citizenship law

0.1m Sri Lankan refugees missing from India’s citizenship law

Thomson Reuters Foundation 2019-12-25 11:52:42

Nearly 100,000 Sri Lankan refugees living in India are not eligible for citizenship under a new law, sparking concerns they may be forced to return to the island nation they fled during a decades-long...

Nissan top executive Seki to quit in blow to turnaround plan

Nissan top executive Seki to quit in blow to turnaround plan

-- 2019-12-25 10:46:50

The executive tasked with leading a recovery at Nissan Motor Co Ltd said he had decided to resign just weeks into his new job, a move that could disrupt the automaker’s push to turn the corner o...

TIB expresses concerns

TIB expresses concerns

FE ONLINE REPORT 2019-12-24 21:15:46

The Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) expressed concerns about uncertainty of climate financing in UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid of Spain. There was no certain development...

China central bank to conduct six billion yuan bill swaps

China central bank to conduct six billion yuan bill swaps

-- 2019-12-24 13:54:19

China’s central bank will conduct a bill swap operation to support the issuance and liquidity of perpetual bonds issued by banks to replenish capital, it said on Tuesday. The bill swaps, with a...

Tourists to Palestine grow 15 pc in 2019: Minister

Tourists to Palestine grow 15 pc in 2019: Minister

-- 2019-12-24 12:49:03

The number of tourists to the occupied Palestinian territories increased by 15 per cent in 2019, Palestinian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Rula Maayah has said. "The number of tourists who have...

25 die as bus plunges into ravine in Indonesia

25 die as bus plunges into ravine in Indonesia

-- 2019-12-24 12:07:34

Twenty-five people were killed when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine on Indonesia’s Sumatra island after its brakes apparently malfunctioned, police said Tuesday. At least 14 other people...

China's forex market remains balanced

China's forex market remains balanced

Global Times 2019-12-23 18:20:30

China's cross-border capital flight pressure has been much alleviated this year, with the country expected to continue liberalising its capital account while cracking down on illegal trading activitie...

Singapore's core inflation grows to 0.6 pc in Nov

Singapore's core inflation grows to 0.6 pc in Nov

-- 2019-12-23 15:19:38

Singapore's Consumer Price Index for all items (CPI-All Items) grew 0.6 per cent year-on-year in November, compared to a 0.4-per cent growth in October, according to a statement. The Ministry of Trad...

11 dead, 300 treated after drinking coconut wine in Philippines

11 dead, 300 treated after drinking coconut wine in Philippines

-- 2019-12-23 10:50:16

At least 11 people have been killed and more than 300 treated in hospital after drinking coconut wine in the Philippines, including some who were celebrating at a Christmas party, health and local aut...

Violent protests affect Assam's tourism industry

Violent protests affect Assam's tourism industry

-- 2019-12-22 19:28:05

The tourism industry in India's northeastern state Assam is taking a hit right now as violent anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests by various oraganisations against the controversial act cont...

Int'l SME conference held in India

Int'l SME conference held in India

-- 2019-12-22 18:26:07

World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME) organised 23rd International Conference for SMEs (ICSME) on “Achieving inclusive and sustainable goal through SME 4.0 by promoting SMEs...