Hong Kong’s economic prospects in 2016 are worse than last year amid weak exports and falling tourism revenue, Bank of East Asia Ltd. (00023.HK) deputy chief executive Adrian Li Man-kiu said.
U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday that he will roll out gun-control initiatives over the next several days, stressing that the measures will be "entirely consistent" with the constitutional right to bear arms.
Hollywood will be busy behind the scenes in 2016 with film shoots that will attract a lot of attention until the movies are released at the end of the year or in 2017.
As the year 2016 begins, China is on the home stretch to building a "moderately prosperous society in all respects."
In a time when the European Union is being severely put to the test, the Netherlands took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in an attempt to focus on the essentials, create growth and jobs through innovation, and to connect with civil society.
Big metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai no longer rule the roost of economic opportunities in China, with smaller cities now racing ahead as their increasingly cashed-up residents drive the future of consumption in the country.
Chicago airports have cancelled more than 500 flights as freezing rain and high winds hit the U.S. Midwest city Monday during one of the busiest travel times of the year.
The highly-anticipated stock listing reform, which will be launched in March of 2016 at the earliest according to the latest legal changes, is set to usher in a new era for China's stock market, officials and experts have said.
China’s Central Economic Work Conference, which concluded recently, determined key economic tasks for next year, namely to promote structural reform and sustainable and healthy economic development. The journalist interviewed leading expert in the first time to analyze key points of social economic development and structural reform.
Chinese lawmakers on Sunday approved a State Council proposal for stock listing reform at the end of a bimonthly legislative session which began Monday in Beijing.
Pakistan Army Chief General Raheel Sharif will hold talks with Afghan leaders in Kabul on Sunday, with focus on revival of Afghan reconciliation process as well as better border management, the army said.
The China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was formally established Friday, marking a milestone in the reform of the global economic governance system as well as in the infrastructure development in the Asia-Pacific region.
The tragedy was caused by the collapse of a huge pile of construction waste, rather than any natural geological phenomenon, the investigation team said in a statement.
The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe green-lighting defense spending for the next fiscal year, which at around 42 billion U.S. dollars is the highest since record keeping began, is a testament to the hawkish leader's belligerent agenda in the months and years to come.
South Korea will send an on-site inspection team early next year to foreign countries where terrorist attacks are frequent, officials said Wednesday.
The Cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approved a record-high military budget on Thursday marking the fourth consecutive year that spending on defense has increased.
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