A survey has found that 76 per cent of voting-age Filipinos are satisfied with President Rodrigo Duterte's performance some 100 days after he took office, apparently happy with his ultra-hardline stance on crime and unfazed by his threats to "break up" with top ally the United States.
Despite a global slowdown mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau now account for billionaires than the USA.
A record number of migrants settled in New Zealand last year as more New Zealanders returned from Australia and rising numbers arrived from Asia, the government statistics agency said Monday.
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is no longer Australia's richest person after Forbes Australia announced Australian resident Blair Parry-Okeden has ended her five year reign.
As interim report disclosure is drawing to a close, editors reviewed the performance of the industries with traditional big-cap stocks, finding that the securities, insurance and electricity industries presented satisfying result in the first half of this year; while the banking, coal and oil industries declined significantly.
The total number of ultra high net worth population in Singapore rose by 40 to hit the record high of 1,395 this year, according to a wealth report released on Wednesday.
Foreigners have sold South Korean stocks for two months in a row as the local currency's fall to the U.S. dollar fueled worries about foreign exchange losses, financial watchdog data showed Monday.
Foreign investors turned into net sellers in the South Korean stock market for the first time in six months as the local currency depreciated to the U.S. dollar and caused concerns over foreign exchange losses, financial watchdog data showed Tuesday.
New Zealand had its highest monthly net gain -- more arrivals than departures -- of migrants in more than a decade in April, fueling concerns over the country' s already overheated housing market.
China Minmetals Rare Earth Co. Ltd, a leading miner in the business, posted a drastic decline in net profits in the first quarter of 2014 due to low rare earth prices.
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