South Korea's industrial output rebounded last month as the government executed its budget plan on social overhead capital and public administration, a government report showed Thursday.
Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor accounted for more than half of net profits generated by top 100 companies by sales in South Korea, boosting concerns over excessive dependence on a few number of companies, local media reported Wednesday.
The Portuguese government announced on Thursday tax reduction measures to create more jobs and revive the country's flagging economy.
After a marked downturn over the past two years, the global economy is expected to gain momentum slowly for the rest of 2013 and 2014 on the back of accommodative monetary policies in developed and developing economies, a latest UN report said here Thursday.
The adult obesity rates in Australia continue their climb, rising from 24.4 percent of Australians to 28.1 percent over the fours years to 2012, a latest report from the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council showed Friday.
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Wednesday opted to continue its bold monetary easing policy to combat the nation's crippling deflation and hit the government-set 2 percent inflation target in two years.
South Korea's economic effectiveness remained low compared with those in advanced economies, indicating that the economy depended on quantitative expansion in labor and capital for its growth, the local think tank said Wednesday.
As China's real estate prices continue to rise despite the central government's repeated housing curbs, experts have suggested the cure is to be found in market-oriented measures.
Financial services firm Barclays has become the latest international financial institution to raise the 2013 growth forecast for the Philippines.
Leading economists have painted a grim outlook for the euro zone at a forum here, with one saying there will be no winners, no matter what course of action is taken.
With lower college graduate employment rates being reported in many provincial regions, job hunting has become an uphill battle as the year's graduate supply is expected to hit a record high.
With lower college graduate employment rates being reported in many provincial regions, job hunting has become an uphill battle as the year's graduate supply is expected to hit a record high.
The Japanese economy grew an annualized real 3.5 percent in the first quarter of 2013, according to the government data released on Thursday.
China's urban fixed asset investment grew 20.6 percent year on year to 9.13 trillion yuan (147.29 billion U.S. dollars) in the first four months of 2013, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed on Monday.
The Hong Kong government released the First Quarter Economic Report 2013 on Friday. The territory sees a 2.8 percent year-on-year and 0.2 percent quarter-to-quarter real GDP growth.
New customs data on Wednesday shows China's foreign trade is picking up. Trade volume grew by 15.7 percent year on year in April, faster than the 12.1 percent increase in March.
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange on Tuesday plunged to the lowest level since May 1 on big outflows from gold exchange-traded funds.
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