Sales of local rice have fallen as a result of last year's surging rice imports. Chinese farmer are expecting another bumper rice harvest this year.
South Korea's consumer price inflation fell last month to the lowest in around 14 years due to a fall in farm goods and oil product prices.
India has overtaken China as the biggest single source of immigrants to Australia, according to data released Monday.
U.S. stocks retreated in choppy trading on Wednesday amid worries over the Federal Reserve's possible tapering of its asset purchases as well as lackluster global growth prospects.
China's shadow banking will not shake the country's financial stability within the next 12 to 18 months, though its rapid growth poses key risks to the Chinese banking system, analysts at Moody's said on Monday.
China's manufacturing activity contracted in May, suggesting that economic growth is likely to keep dipping, as authorities have tightened policies over concerns of growing financial risks.
Financial services firm Barclays has become the latest international financial institution to raise the 2013 growth forecast for the Philippines.
With lower college graduate employment rates being reported in many provincial regions, job hunting has become an uphill battle as the year's graduate supply is expected to hit a record high.
With lower college graduate employment rates being reported in many provincial regions, job hunting has become an uphill battle as the year's graduate supply is expected to hit a record high.
China's urban fixed asset investment grew 20.6 percent year on year to 9.13 trillion yuan (147.29 billion U.S. dollars) in the first four months of 2013, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed on Monday.
Two children were stabbed to death by their father early Tuesday morning in the western Japanese prefecture of Hiroshima according to local press.
China's new yuan-denominated lending dropped to 792.9 billion yuan (127.85 billion U.S. dollars) in April, down from 1.06 trillion yuan in March, the central bank said Friday.
The Hong Kong government released the First Quarter Economic Report 2013 on Friday. The territory sees a 2.8 percent year-on-year and 0.2 percent quarter-to-quarter real GDP growth.
Malaysia's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow at a moderate pace following the poor Industrial Production Index (IPI) in March, economic analysts said Friday.
New customs data on Wednesday shows China's foreign trade is picking up. Trade volume grew by 15.7 percent year on year in April, faster than the 12.1 percent increase in March.
A total of 1.12 million Chinese visited Thailand in the first quarter of 2013, a sharp rise of 98 percent from the same period last year, authorities said on Monday.
China's largest oil refiner Sinopec saw net profits return to strong growth in the first quarter of 2013, while the country's top oil and gas producer PetroChina reported a decline in profits, company statements showed Thursday.
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