Japanese firms expect inflation to rise at a rate less than predicted three months ago, in a sign that faith in the central bank's reflationary efforts is waning, statistics from the Bank of Japan (BOJ) showed Tuesday.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) concluded its prime ministers' meeting in central Chinese city of Zhengzhou by promising to boost regional economic cooperation.
The Japan Sport Council (JSC) on Tuesday began three days of deliberations with experts including the Japan Olympic Committee (JOC) and athletes who will provide their input on two designs proposals that have been shortlisted to be the main stadium for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo.
With roughly two weeks left before year's end, China is embracing a "blossoming season" of its proactive foreign diplomacy.
Except Futurama’s 2001 episode “I Dated a Robot”, with its post-apocalyptic world of silvers and blues, wildly overestimated how long it would take before this fear became flesh.
Nearly 20 provincial governments in China have rolled out their local development plans for the 13th Five Year Plan period from 2016 to 2020, with their focus on the "Belt and Road" construction, the Shanghai Securities News reported on Friday. Under their development plans, they attach great importance to infrastructure construction in transportation industry and construction of industrial parks.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) on Monday unveiled its major economic tasks for 2016, the first year of the country's 13th Five-year Plan.
Loaded with 200 tonnes of cargo, a freight train leaving south China's Guangzhou today will arrive in Moscow 18 days later, having traveled more than 7,000 miles through Eurasia.
China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group on Friday announced its acquisition of the South China Morning Post (SCMP), a major English newspaper in China's Hong Kong.
Incoming New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay will be seeking to secure market access, particularly for agriculture, at next week's World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks in Nairobi.
Japan will launch an X-ray astronomy satellite atop an H-2A carrier rocket in February next year, as an effort to elucidate the structure of space and its evolution.
South Korea and Japan will hold a director general-level meeting next week in Tokyo to discuss issues on Japan's sex enslavement of Korean women during World War II, Seoul's foreign ministry said Friday.
Russia would like to renew its relationship with the United States provided that the latter stops backing economic sanctions against Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published by La Repubblica newspaper on Thursday.
Beijing has issued a draft regulation to allow migrants to claim permanent resident permits or "hukou" based on a points system, local authorities said Thursday.
An executive meeting of the State Council, or China's cabinet, passed a draft document for registration-based stock listing reforms on Wednesday.
The Finnish government published its action plan on asylum policies on Tuesday, sending a clear message of tightening up amid the ongoing refugee crisis.
Myanmar Constructors Association and Japan-Myanmar Association for Industry of Housing and Urban Development will cooperate in housing development, production of building, materials and construction sector, according to the association Tuesday.