Chinese property buyers have spent a record 462 million Australian dollars (400 million U.S. dollars) on Queensland real estate last financial year, a 43 percent increase than a year earlier, a report said on Monday.
Canada's main stock market dropped Thursday as disappointing German economic data revived investors' speculation about Europe's economic health and the global economic recovery.
China's private company Huawei has made it to a list of the world's top 100 brands, according to the ranking released on Thursday.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday that civil servants, whose net monthly wages are below 800,000 riel (200 U.S. dollars), will not be obliged to pay tax on salary.
Canada's main stock market rebounded Wednesday as the latest U.S. Federal Reserve meeting reassured investors' speculation that central bank officials agreed to begin raising interest rates only when measures of the economy's health and inflation signal the right timing.
Japan logged a current account surplus for the second consecutive month in August, standing at 287.1 billion yen (2.65 billion U.S. dollars), as firm income from investments overseas outweighed a trade deficit, government data showed Wednesday.
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose Tuesday as U.S. equities and dollar fell.
The UN committee on administrative and budgetary issues on Tuesday adopted a resolution allocating funding of 49.9 million U.S. dollars for the newly established UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER).
Myanmar has offered 20 sectors of economic activities to local and foreign investors in the country' s first biggest Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ) project being implemented on the outskirts of Yangon by a Myanmar-Japan joint venture, according to the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development Tuesday.
A lower-than-expected tax take is putting pressure on the New Zealand government's target of returning to an operating surplus by the end of this financial year, Finance Minister Bill English warned Tuesday.
U.S. stocks snipped earlier gains to close lower Monday, as investors took a breather after the Dow Jones Industrial Average capped its largest daily gains in seven months on Friday.
Vietnam's garment and textile exports are likely to exceed the annual target by 16 percent to hit 25 billion U.S. dollars in 2014, according to the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group (VINATEX) on Monday.
"Gone Girl" took the first place at the North American box office in its debut during the weekend, earning 38 million U.S. dollars, according to the box office tracker website Rentrak.
Lenovo Group, the world's biggest personal computer maker, has finished the acquisition of the X86 server hardware and related maintenance services business from IBM, Lenovo said late Thursday.
The U.S. dollar declined against most major currencies Thursday and the euro/dollar rate went up 0. 39 percent in late trading as European Central Bank (ECB) launched a new asset purchase plan to stimulate the waning economy in the eurozone.
Crude prices advanced Monday as a government report showed U.S. consumer spending increased in August.
The U.S. dollar extended its gains Friday as optimistic U.S. economic data strengthened market speculations that the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates earlier than expected.
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