Data released on Tuesday showed the UK government borrowing has performed better than expected in the immediate wake of Brexit.
Chinese internet powerhouse Tencent Holdings is looking to ramp up its cloud and payments businesses after reporting a lower-than-expected quarterly profit for the three months to September 30 as spending on content and marketing increased ahead of its 18th year anniversary.
South Korea's mobile phone exports posted a steep decline last month as Samsung Electronics discontinued its latest flagship smartphone Galaxy Note 7 on reports of catching fire and overheating, a government report showed on Thursday.
South Korean prosecutors plan to investigate President Park Geun-hye early next week over Park's biggest political scandal involving her longtime confidante Choi Soon-sil suspected of intervening in state affairs behind the scenes and peddling undue influence for personal gains.
Lock-up shares worth about 8.7 billion yuan (about 1.29 billion U.S. dollars) will become eligible for trade on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges in the coming week.
Chinese customers are proving the mainstay of S.Korean online shopping malls, with revenues from overseas doubling over the past year.
Chinese online shopping giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd reported a 55 percent rise in second-quarter revenue on Wednesday, beating analyst estimates on the back of core e-commerce sales and strong media and entertainment growth.
Suspect is the first from the accounting firm to be arrested
Hakim Unique's Wang Qicheng and Wu Yan couple, with a fortune of 24.5 billion yuan ($3.62 billion), have become the richest post-80s self-made billionaires, according to a new report.
Chinese internet search giant Baidu reported better-than-expected earnings in the quarter ended September 30, despite continued weakness in its online advertising business.
China has maintained its pole position as the largest commercial supplier of Algeria during the first nine months of 2016 with a trading volume of about 6.2 billion U.S. dollars, according to figures provided by Customs' National Center for Data and Statistics on Monday.
China's Ministry of Finance on Thursday published a new group of public-private partnership (PPP) demonstration projects with a total investment value of 1.17 trillion yuan ($174.6 billion).
Saudi Arabia and Japan's SoftBank Group (9984.T) said they will create a technology investment fund that could grow as large as $100 billion, aiming to create one of the world's largest private equity funds.
Pickier audiences and a crackdown on subsidies behind fall, analysts say
Photo-sharing app Snapchat's parent is working on an initial public offering that could value the company at $25 billion or more, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing several people familiar with the matter.
South Korea's exports fell 5.9 percent last month due to labor strikes in major automakers and Samsung Electronics' recall of its new flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, a government report showed on Saturday.
Deutsche Bank will likely cast a pall over equity markets next week as the largest German lender navigates a possible multi-billion dollar settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over the sale of mortgage-backed bonds.
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