Barclays' freeze of the account of Russia's Rossiya Segodnya, commonly known as Russia Today (RT), once again shows the West's double standards over free press.
A senior official with the U.S. Department of State said Wednesday it is "not acceptable" for any staff to conduct official business via private email account as presidential contender Hillary Clinton did during her tenure as head of the department.
Financial reform is about to move faster in the Shanghai free trade zone (FTZ), a central bank official said on the eve of the zone's first anniversary.
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.
Rules on implementation of the free trade account system that enables full convertibility of the Chinese currency and allows offshore financing in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone will be rolled out before the end of June, an official said Tuesday.
Japan logged its largest current account deficit in November 2013, marking the second straight month of red ink as a weaker yen pushed up costs for energy imports, but failed to buoy Japan's key export sector, according to data issued by the Finance Ministry Tuesday.
South Korea's current account surplus hit a fresh record high last month when exports topped 50 billion U.S. dollars for the first time in the country's history, central bank data showed Thursday.
China's latest call for an "operational plan" to achieve yuan convertibility under the capital account has raised the prospect of a specific reform timeline, although the government will likely conduct the reform step-by-step rather than all at once, analysts said.
The main twitter account of the Associated Press was hacked on Tuesday afternoon, sending out a false news claiming that Obama was injured in a White House explosion, which caused a sharp drop and a quick rebound in the U. S. stock market.
South Korea has seen the largest wage and income account deficit, renewing the all-time high registered in 2011.
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