China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.1 percent year on year in March, down from a 10-month high of 3.2 percent in February, according to official data released Tuesday.
The Bank of Japan's new governor, Haruhiko Kuroda, on Thursday renewed his pledge to expand monetary easing and to achieve a 2-percent inflation goal in two years at his inaugural news conference, just a day after he took office.
Singapore's consumer price inflation (CPI) in January moderated to 3.6 percent, compared with 4.3 percent for last December, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry jointly announced on Monday.
Increasing food prices are driving China's inflation higher, a trend seen to limit authorities' space to soften their monetary stance in the coming year.
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