Victoria, a southeast state of Australia, launched on Wednesday a four-year Food to Asia Action Plan, which aims to boost exports to Asia and make the state "the food bowl of Asia."
U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a 3.9 trillion-dollar budget plan for the 2015 fiscal year, which will be used to fund infrastructure upgrading, education and other social programs.
Virgin Australia, the country's second largest carrier, reported on Friday a statutory loss after tax of 83.7 million AU dollars (75 million U.S. dollars) for the first half of the 2014 financial year.
The reform will help to test the market and to gain experience, laying a firm foundation for the deepening of interest-rate liberalization nationwide, said Zhang Xin, deputy director of the PBoC's Shanghai headquarters.
China took a record 30 percent of all New Zealand's exports last month and twice as much as the next biggest export market, Australia, New Zealand's government statistics agency announced Thursday.
Australian airline Qantas announced on Thursday that it would slash 5,000 jobs as part of its actions to reduce 2 billion AU dollars (1.8 billion U.S. dollars) in costs over the next three years.
Wealthy Chinese feature prominently in the new Hurun Global Rich List, with notable headlines from the annual report including Jack Ma of Alibaba Group and Lei Jun of Xiaomi. This contributed to the fact that technology overtook real estate to be key source of wealth.
In order to improve livelihood of the needy and the disadvantaged, five measures involving 20 billion HK dollars (2.58 billion U.S. dollars) has been announced by Hong Kong's financial secretary John Tsang on Wednesday.
Australia's largest airline Qantas is preparing to cut 5,000 jobs in response to an expected huge amount of losses in the first half of the 2013/14 financial year, local media reported on Tuesday.
Warner Bros. Pictures' 3D computer animated comedy "The Lego Movie" easily secured the first place at the North American box office for a third time, ahead of this week's newcomers "3 Days to Kill" and "Pompeii".
New Zealand tax revenue fell below forecast in the second half of last year, leaving the government with an operating deficit of 1.8 billion NZ dollars (1. 49 billion U.S. dollars), which was 380 million NZ dollars (315.58 million U.S. dollars) worse than expected, the New Zealand Treasury announced Friday.
Foreign direct investment into the Chinese mainland rose 16.11 percent year on year in January to reach 10.76 billion U.S. dollars, underlining investor confidence in China's economic outlook.
Vietnam's real estate industry is expected to attract more foreign investment, even though the domestic economy is forecast to face challenges this year, Vietnam News daily reported Saturday.
Valentine's Day, the international day for lovers, is causing a thorn in the side of New Zealand rose growers.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group announced on Monday that it had offered to acquire digital mapping and navigation firm AutoNavi for 1.1 billion U.S. dollars.
"The Lego Movie" tops this weekend's North American box office, which shows that Warner Bros. ' has successfully brought the world famous toy on screen.
Singapore authorities will pump some 22 million Singapore dollars (17.3 million U.S. dollars) to support its maritime industries, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said on Thursday.
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