The Asian Development Bank and International Monetary Fund Saturday encouraged Myanmar to carry on its economic reforms aimed at achieving the goal of reducing poverty and development.
Developers in Singapore sold 2, 793 new units of private homes, excluding executive condominiums, in March, according to statistics released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority on Monday. The number is more than four times of that in February.
Taiwan's statistical authorities have slightly raised its forecast for the island's 2013 economic growth rate to 3.59 percent from 3.53 percent due to increasing private investment.
China is opening up its mobile telecom sector to private enterprises. In a move expected to improve competition and innovation, in a field dominated by three telecom giants.
The time is not right for a planned trip to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) by Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, and New Mexico's former governor, Bill Richardson, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.