China's fiscal revenue rose much slower in August as the economy continued to plateau, while expenditure growth picked up over more proactive fiscal policies, official data showed on Tuesday.
Consumer prices in China hit the highest level this year while deflation risks in industrial production loomed larger, signaling a need for continued easing policies.
Premier Li Keqiang has pledged that China will honor its obligations on climate change while meeting with business leaders at the ongoing World Economic Forum event in northeast China's Dalian city.
China's producer prices continued to fall in August, pointing to looming deflation risk, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Thursday.
Chinese stocks nosedived more than four percent after the opening bell on Wednesday over deepening downward pressure on the world's second largest economy.
China's manufacturing activity continued to retreat in August, with an accelerated decline in output and new orders, according to a survey by financial information service provider Markit and sponsored by Caixin Media Co. Ltd.
The Caixin flash China general manufacturing PMI plunged to a 77-month low of 47.1 in August from 47.8 in July, a preliminary Caixin survey showed on Friday.
South Korea's central government debts hit an all-time high in August as it increased fiscal expenditure to boost the sluggish economy, a government report showed Tuesday.
Growth in China's consumer inflation slowed than market expectation to 1.6 percent in September, the lowest since January 2010, data showed on Wednesday.
Unemployment rate in Japan fell to 3.5 percent in August from a reading of 3.8 percent in the previous month, the government here said Tuesday.
Crude prices advanced Monday as a government report showed U.S. consumer spending increased in August.
Deposit and lending rates in South Korea fell to record lows last month as the central bank cut the benchmark interest rate, Bank of Korea (BOK) data showed Monday.
South Korea's current account surplus reduced to 7.27 billion U.S. dollars in August due to seasonal factors such as a deficit in the travel account at the peak of summer vacation, central bank data showed Monday.
Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (NODX), a key gauge of the export performance of the small and highly open economy, expanded by 6.0 percent year on year in August, trade promotion agency International Enterprise (IE) Singapore said on Wednesday.
The preliminary estimate of China's Macao Special Administrative Region's foreign exchange reserves reached to 130.2 billion patacas (16.31 billion U.S. dollars) at the end of August 2014, according to the figures released on Monday by the Monetary Authority of Macao.
Singapore's private home sales fell 15 percent on-month in August, as developers continued to scale back new launches, according to statistics released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority on Monday.
South Korea's import prices fell for the sixth straight month amid lower global oil prices, indicating low inflationary pressures for the time being, central bank data showed Monday.
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