Job growth in South Korea fell to the lowest in 22 months on the back of the highest jobless rate among youths, a government report said on Wednesday.
Fierce fighting has occurred in Myanmar's Kokang region in northeastern Shan state on the first day of the country's water festival, the state-run Mirror reported Tuesday.
China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, grew 1.4 percent year on year in March, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday.
South Korea's central bank decided on Thursday to keep the benchmark interest rate after cutting it to an all-time low in March, on worries about surging household debts and the potential foreign capital exodus.
The peace negotiators of Myanmar government and ethnic armed groups are striving for the finalization of the draft nationwide ceasefire agreement being discussed during the resumed peace talks here on Monday.
South Korea and the United States will launch their joint annual war games from next week despite the strong opposition from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the Combined Forces Command (CFC) said on Tuesday.
Several Democratic Senators in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday pledged not to push new sanctions legislature against Iran before March 24, giving President Barack Obama breathing room to reach a nuclear deal with the Islamic republic.
Altogether nine Taekwondo players including four women will take part in the 12th ASEAN Taekwondo Championship to be held in Ho Chi Minh city of Vietnam in March, sports circle reported Thursday.
In October 1934, a force of the Red Army led by the Communist Party of China (CPC) kicked off a two-year arduous march from China's south to Yan'an in the northwest.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired three short-range projectiles into its eastern waters, local media reported Thursday.
New Zealand's terms of trade almost equaled their all-time high in the quarter ending March, rising to their highest level in more than 40 years, the government statistics agency announced Tuesday.
Rising electricity and dairy prices drove increases in both New Zealand's input and output producer prices in the March quarter, the government statistics agency announced Monday.
China's manufacturing growth continued to rise in April, fresh evidence of better performance in the manufacturing sector, official data showed on Thursday.
U.S. stocks rallied Monday as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen in a speech made in the day signaled continued monetary stimulus to support the economy.
The newly-proclaimed Republic of Crimea is scheduled to start using Russian rouble as its official currency from March 24, according to the republic's parliament speaker.
Russian, British and German leaders have expressed their common interest in de-escalation of tensions in Ukraine despite existing dissent, the Kremlin press service said Sunday.
Laos has reaffirmed its support for Myanmar's democratization and national reconciliation efforts, state media reported Tuesday.
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