China's economy in the first half of 2022 has shown resilience in the face of elevated pressures led by weakening global growth and ongoing pandemic, while recovery gat
The World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Tuesday that its global goods barometer was stable, pointing to stagnant global trade growth following a COVID-19 triggered s
The automobile manufacturing industry is a pillar industry in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. But hit by the COVID-19, over 6,000 local auto parts companies fa
Monitors displaying the stock index prices and Japanese yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Tokyo, Japan January 4, 2022./ Reuters Asian stocks fell on Wedne
The New York Stock Exchange, New York, U.S. /CFP Major U.S. stock indices retreated from records on Monday as investors weighed progress on U.S. infrastructure legislation against concerns abo
A sign for Wall Street hangs outside of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., June 21, 2021. /VCG The Nasdaq and SP 500 closed at record levels on Thursday after a spate of stron
The dollar shined but equities mostly spun their wheels on both sides of the Atlantic on Thursday as a U.S. hiring surge and drop in unemployment rekindled worries abou
A Colonial Pipeline storage tank at the company's Baltimore Washington International Airport facility in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., May 11, 2021. /CFP Oil prices dropped by over $2 a barrel on
South Korea's Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong has demanded that the U.S. provide scientific evidence after it showed support for the Japanese government's plan to dump nuclear polluted water into the
00:32 Japan should not expect the world to pay the bill for its choice of discharging contaminated wastewater, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Thursday at a press brief
China has expressed serious concern over Japan's plan to discharge contaminated radioactive wastewater from Fukushima Prefecture into the sea, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.
02:36 Weighed down with a deadly pandemic and tense geopolitics, the world has become more divided than ever. There have been widely reported cases of violence against Asian Americans
A crude oil pump jack on a drill pad in the Permian Basin in Loving County, Texas, U.S., November 24, 2019. /Reuters Oil fell by more than $3 a barrel on Monday as rising supply from OPEC+ and
The highest court in the land has a lot to say about tech this week. The Supreme Court weighed in on Google’s long legal battle with Oracle on Monday, overturning a prior victory for the latter
Oil pipes run at a Saudi Aramco oil refinery and oil terminal in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, on October 1, 2018. /VCG Energy giant Saudi Aramco on Sunday posted a 44.4 percent slump in 2020 net
A family in south Vietnam received a wild boar as a piglet from relatives two years ago, and now it has grown to a huge 440lb (200kg) pet. The family lives in Binh Chanh district, in Ho Chi Minh City
FILE PHOTO: Iran flag. /VCG Iranian foreign minister appealed to the United States to act swiftly to return to the nuclear accord, pointing out that legislation passed by parliament forces the