The Australian dollar has fallen more than 1 percent on Wednesday hitting a four-year low, following comments by Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Deputy Governor Philip Lowe on its value.
Cultural Village of La Francophonie holds the opening ceremony in Dakar, Senegal, Nov. 24, 2014. As a traditional warm-up project of the upcoming summit of the International Organizations of La Francophonie, the cultural village will hold a series of art performances and exhibitions to promote the French language and francophone regions.
The European Union (EU) has pledged to provide 250 million euro ( 332.5 million U.S. dollars) to Myanmar annually under a three-year strategic cooperation program (2014-16), official sources said Tuesday quoting EU Ambassador to Myanmar Roland Kobia.
Japan's DPJ unveils Japan's main opposition party unveiled Monday its manifesto for the upcoming general election, with focus being put on challenging "Abenomics" and retracting a cabinet bill granted exercise of rights to collective self-defense.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Monday he had ordered cabinet ministers not to attend hearings with legislators following a plan of legislators from the opposition camp to question the president's recent decision to hike the subsidized fuel prices.
Laying on hospital bed in Kabul and is unable to talk, the man is among the several victims of a suicide bombing which rattled Afghan eastern Paktika province on Sunday and had been shifted to Kabul for medical treatment.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to seek the cooperation of India's neighbors to adopt a tough stand against terrorism at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit this week in Kathmandu, said official sources here Monday.
At least one civilian was wounded after a bomb attack targeted a NATO-led forces' convoy in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday, sources said.
Myanmar will get a 50-million-U.S. dollar loan from Singapore and Vietnam for the development of its small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Myanmar authorities said on Sunday.
Australia's national public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC), will cut more than 400 jobs as it attempts to cope with the federal government's 220 million U.S. dollar budget cuts.
China, South Korea and Japan will hold the sixth round of talks for a trilateral free trade agreement (FTA) next week, after Beijing and Seoul concluded the substantive negotiations for a bilateral FTA, the trade ministry said on Sunday.
At least 45 people were killed and 60 others wounded after a suicide bomb attack shocked a volleyball ground in Yahya Khel district of Paktika province, eastern Afghanistan, on Sunday evening, officials confirmed.
Visitors from China led a surge in overseas arrivals in New Zealand last month, figures from the government statistics agency showed on Monday.
Myanmar's Yangon Technological University (YTU) and Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will launch technological cooperation for the development of human resources in Myanmar in academic education under an internship program, sources with the Myanmar university said Monday.
South Korea's military on Friday conducted a live-fire drill in islands near the disputed inter- Korean maritime border despite the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s condemnation against it.
New Zealand's tourism industry is set to get a boost under visa changes that make it easier for Chinese to travel to and work in the country, the Tourism Industry Association (TIA) said Friday.
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