DPRK's leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting, Pyongyang, DPRK, September 5, 2020. /Reuters Kim Jong Un, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), on Saturday visited typhoon-h
India’s coronavirus caseload surpassed 4 million on Saturday, deepening misery in the country’s vast hinterlands, where surges have crippled the underfunded health care
Southeast Asia’s leading property listing company PropertyGuru is making great strides across the region as it secures a fresh investment of SG$300 million ($220 million), it announced this week
02:50 Hungary has closed its borders to foreigners to prevent the so-called second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that is sweeping across Europe.At the same time, its schools are reopen
China's central bank said on Monday it will make interbank repo rates by depository institutions (DR) a key reference for monetary policy adjustment and financial market price-setting.Improving Ch
Passersby wearing protective face masks following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are reflected on a screen displaying stock prices outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, March 17
A pedestrian in front of the London Stock Exchange offices in the City of London, Britain, December 29, 2017. /Reuters Stock markets struggled for direction on Friday as investors worried abou
Like other accelerators, Brinc hasn’t let 2020 get in the way of its program for early-stage startups. The firm is known for focusing on food technology, health tech, clean energy, and hardware, and h
Situated over 800 meters high in the mountains of eastern China, tea plantations are braving the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. For hundreds of years, genera
Asia's stock markets opened higher on Tuesday following a Wall Street rally driven by vaccine hopes, while the dollar found some support ahead of a key central bank speech.Also supporting the mood we
VCG Chinese health officials reported last Thursday that a sample of frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil to Shenzhen, a city in southern China, tested positive for the coronavirus.Accord
People walk past the U.S. Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., the United States. /XinhuaU.S. Federal Reserve officials believed that uncertainty surrounding t
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has visited flood-stricken residents in east China's Anhui Province. While visiting Fu
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Kyrgyz counterpart Chingiz Aidarbekov have vowed to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation between the two
The SP 500 closed at a record high on Tuesday, rebounding from huge losses triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and crowning one of the most dramatic recoveries in the index's history.Trillions of U
VCG Image The South African rand started the week stronger on Monday following a government directive that eased the country's COVID-19 lockdown.In a briefing over the weekend, President Cyril
As African countries continue to battle the unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic, they are making gains on the frontline against massive swarms of the desert locusts that have been threatening the region