Chinese shares fell to a six-month-low on Thursday, as patchy economic data and an equity retreat in emerging markets raised concerns of a liquidity drain in the world's second largest economy.
The World Bank on Wednesday slightly scaled down its forecast of global economic growth rate to 2.2 percent for this year, 0.2 percentage point lower than its January forecast.
It has a long way to widely put E-learning, or learning through the electronic media, into practice in primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong , according to results of a survey released on Tuesday.
China's fiscal revenue continued a trend of slow growth in May due to tempered economic expansion and the country's tax cutting policies, according to official data released on Sunday.
With an eye on dinner tables in the Chinese mainland, McDonald's, the world's leading fast food operator, on Wednesday announced new rice products for the mainland market.
South Korean shares fell sharply on Wednesday amid concerns over the earlier-than-expected end of quantitative easing in the United States.
China firmly opposes the European Commission's decision to slap provisional anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar panels.
The declining trend of manufacturing output seems to have been reversed but prospect of recovery remains fragile due to the prolonged recession in Europe, the United Nations reported on Tuesday.
U.S. stocks closed lower after choppy trading on Tuesday, as investors took a breather amid worries that the Federal Reserve may curtail its bond buying activities earlier than expected.
The Australian dollar fell Wednesday after news of disappointing economic growth in the first three months of the year.
Australian Labor Party primary vote has reached a three-month low of 30 percent, and nearly one in two voters are backing the Coalition, giving it a 16- point lead after preferences.
Over Ninety percent of parents support educating minors about sex, and incorporating it into school education, the Beijing News, reported on Monday, citing a survey.
South Korea's consumer price inflation fell last month to the lowest in around 14 years due to a fall in farm goods and oil product prices.
The upside is that the Philippine economy grew by a stunning 7.8 percent during the first quarter of the year, the fastest among the emerging economies in the Asia- Pacific region. But the downside is that the country's stock market took a nosedive and the Philippine peso weakened in the aftermath of the strengthening of the U.S. dollar brought about by a slight but steady recovery of the U.S. economy.
U.S. stocks retreated in choppy trading on Wednesday amid worries over the Federal Reserve's possible tapering of its asset purchases as well as lackluster global growth prospects.
The Philippine economy posted a 7.8 percent growth in the first quarter of this year, as against 6.5 percent in the same period last year, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) announced Thursday.
For decades, millions of Chinese migrant workers from the poorer center and west of China have flooded to the coastal regions of the south and east to seek better pay. But the trend is increasingly reversing thanks to the country's shifting manufacturing footprints.
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