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Indonesia posts 3.13pc inflation in December

Indonesia posts 3.13pc inflation in December

-- 2019-01-02 15:27:14

Indonesian annual inflation posted 3.13 per cent in December, accelerated at a slower pace in the last month of the previous year, within the target range of the central bank in November. The nationa...

Somalia govt orders top UN official to leave

Somalia govt orders top UN official to leave

-- 2019-01-02 14:04:41

Somalia’s government has ordered the top United Nations official in the country to leave, accusing him of interfering with national sovereignty days after he raised concerns about the actions of...

US soldiers fire tear gas at ‘violent mob’ near Mexico border

US soldiers fire tear gas at ‘violent mob’ near Mexico border

-- 2019-01-02 13:05:45

US border agents launched tear gas into Mexico early on Tuesday to deter a group of migrants that one official called ‘a violent mob’ from crossing over from Tijuana, according to a Reuter...

SE Asian stocks fall on gloomy Chinese data

SE Asian stocks fall on gloomy Chinese data

-- 2019-01-02 13:01:53

Southeast Asian stocks fell on Wednesday while Singaporean and Malaysian shares sank after disappointing economic data from China. However, a rally in real estate stocks drove Philippine and Vietname...

Asian shares start 2019 in cautious trading

Asian shares start 2019 in cautious trading

-- 2019-01-02 12:10:25

Asian stock markets tumbled Wednesday as 2019 trading began, after surveys showed Chinese manufacturing weakening. The Shanghai Composite SHCOMP, -1.22 per cent lost 1.1 per cent to 2,465.29 and Hong...

Armed men kill 37 Fulani civilians in Mali

Armed men kill 37 Fulani civilians in Mali

-- 2019-01-02 11:40:57

Armed men killed 37 Fulani civilians on Tuesday in central Mali, where ethnic violence cost hundreds of lives last year, the government said. Violence between Fulani and rival communities has compoun...

Two Indian women defy centuries-old ban by entering temple

Two Indian women defy centuries-old ban by entering temple

-- 2019-01-02 11:25:53

Two women defied a centuries-old ban on entering a Hindu temple in India’s southern state of Kerala in the early hours of Wednesday, the state’s chief minister said, raising fears of a bac...

Taliban attacks kill 15 Afghan policemen

Taliban attacks kill 15 Afghan policemen

-- 2019-01-01 14:51:50

An Afghan official says the Taliban launched two blistering attacks in northern Sar-e-Pul province, killing 15 members of the country's security forces. In one attack, on the outskirts of the provinc...

Asian shares post sharpest losses in seven years in 2018

Asian shares post sharpest losses in seven years in 2018

-- 2019-01-01 14:30:12

Asian stock markets ended 2018 with negative returns in dollar terms, weighed down by trade tensions and slowing profit growth. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1...

South Korea's trade value hits all-time high

South Korea's trade value hits all-time high

-- 2019-01-01 14:29:46

South Korea's trade value hit a new record high in 2018 as export topped 600 billion US dollars for the first time in the country's history, a government report showed Tuesday. Export, which accounts...

Cooperation best for both China and US, Xi tells Trump

Cooperation best for both China and US, Xi tells Trump

-- 2019-01-01 14:04:19

History shows that cooperation is the best choice for both China and the United States, Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump in a congratulatory message on Tuesday to mark 40 ye...

Landslides kill at least two in Indonesia; 41 missing

Landslides kill at least two in Indonesia; 41 missing

-- 2019-01-01 12:06:51

Landslides on Indonesia’s heavily populated island of Java killed at least two people and left 41 missing, an official at the country’s disaster agency said on Tuesday. The landslides, wh...

France’s Macron condemns extremists in New Year speech

France’s Macron condemns extremists in New Year speech

-- 2019-01-01 10:32:28

French President Emmanuel Macron used his traditional New Year's Eve speech to sound a warning to extreme elements among anti-government protesters. He promised to keep order "without complacency" an...

Van slams into pedestrians in Tokyo, injuring eight

Van slams into pedestrians in Tokyo, injuring eight

-- 2019-01-01 10:07:19

A minivan slammed into pedestrians in the early hours of Tuesday on a street where people had gathered for New Year’s festivities in Japan’s downtown Tokyo, injuring eight people, police s...

BOK chief sees need to maintain accommodative stance

BOK chief sees need to maintain accommodative stance

-- 2018-12-31 13:53:38

South Korea’s central bank chief said in a New Year’s message on Monday that policy should remain accommodative next year as demand-side inflation pressures were expected to remain low. &...

China factory activity falls in December

China factory activity falls in December

-- 2018-12-31 12:08:01

An official survey shows China's manufacturing activity contracted in December, adding to pressure on Beijing to reverse an economic downturn amid trade tension with Washington. The purchasing manage...

Malaysia's November PPI falls to 2.9pc

Malaysia's November PPI falls to 2.9pc

-- 2018-12-31 11:50:02

Malaysia's producer price index (PPI) for local production decreased 2.9 per cent year-on-year in November, according to the Malaysian Statistics Department. The official statistics said in a stateme...

SE Asian stocks mostly higher

SE Asian stocks mostly higher

-- 2018-12-31 11:43:16

Southeast Asian stocks rise in narrow trading on Monday as a phone call between US and Chinese leaders spurred hopes that the two economic heavyweights would reach a deal that could ease their damagin...

Asian shares pin hopes on China-US talk

Asian shares pin hopes on China-US talk

-- 2018-12-31 11:25:59

Asian shares crept higher on Monday as hints of progress on the Sino-US trade standoff provided a rare glimmer of optimism in what has been a rough year-end for equities globally. Survey data out of...

Roundtable on labour migration in Asia begins in Tokyo Jan 24

Roundtable on labour migration in Asia begins in Tokyo Jan 24

FE Online Desk 2018-12-30 13:13:34

  The 9th ADBI-OECD-ILO roundtable on labour migration in Asia begins in Tokyo on January 24. ADBI has arranged the two-day event to foster regional cooperation towards innovative approaches fo...

India to contribute Rs 45b to Bhutan’s economic plan

India to contribute Rs 45b to Bhutan’s economic plan

-- 2018-12-29 13:36:08

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that India would contribute Rs 45.0 billion to Bhutan’s 12th five-year economic plan. Narendra Modi announced the contribution after a meeting...

Global stocks rise after wild week

Global stocks rise after wild week

-- 2018-12-29 12:12:06

World stock markets rose on Friday, investors gravitated to safe-haven assets as worries about the world economy persisted, cutting short a two-day rebound in US stocks. US stocks see-sawed, making i...

US stocks pushes higher in choppy trading

US stocks pushes higher in choppy trading

-- 2018-12-29 11:32:27

US stocks pushed higher in a choppy session on Friday following a wild week of trading that has seen equities rebound from a prolonged slide. Major indexes moved in and out of positive territory duri...

Vietnam's industrial production up 10.2pc in 2018

Vietnam's industrial production up 10.2pc in 2018

-- 2018-12-28 11:46:20

Vietnam's national index of industrial production advanced 10.2 per cent on-year in 2018, according to the country's General Statistics Office on Friday. Main driver of the surge, the processing and...

SE Asian stocks gain in year-end trading

SE Asian stocks gain in year-end trading

-- 2018-12-28 11:35:51

Southeast Asian shares gained little in dull year-end trading on Friday and stared at double-digit yearly declines in a tumultuous 2018, Singaporean shares jumped. Stock indexes in Singapore, the Phi...

Asia stocks lifted as Wall Street extends comeback

Asia stocks lifted as Wall Street extends comeback

-- 2018-12-28 11:10:03

Asia stocks gained on Friday after Wall Street ended volatile trade in the green, adding to the big advances of the previous session, although lingering investor jitters helped support safe-haven curr...

US trade delegation to travel to China in early Jan

US trade delegation to travel to China in early Jan

-- 2018-12-27 14:08:58

A US trade team will travel to Beijing the week of Jan. 7 to hold talks with Chinese officials, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The delegation will be led...

SE Asian stocks rise after Wall Street rebound

SE Asian stocks rise after Wall Street rebound

-- 2018-12-27 13:43:04

Southeast Asian shares rose on Thursday, tracking a dramatic rebound on Wall Street powered by upbeat US holiday sales data and the Trump administration's efforts to boost investor confidence. Singap...

Explosive device wounds police officer in Athens, Greek TV says

Explosive device wounds police officer in Athens, Greek TV says

-- 2018-12-27 13:21:46

An explosive device wounded a police officer when it went off outside a church in central Athens in Greece early on Thursday, state TV ERT said. The blast occurred outside the Saint Dionysios church...

Battered Asia rides on Wall Street surge

Battered Asia rides on Wall Street surge

-- 2018-12-27 11:04:26

Asian shares on Thursday rode a dramatic surge on Wall Street as markets, hammered by a recent drum roll of deepening political and economic gloom, cheered upbeat US data and the Trump administration&...