U.S. President Barrack Obama on Thursday reiterated his country's investment in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and commitment to building links between the two sides to better face global challenges.
Leaders from Southeast Asian countries as well as China, Japan and South Korea met here Thursday for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Plus Three and related summits.
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South Korea's central bank on Thursday put interest rates on hold at a record low to wait and see how the two rate cuts made in the second half of this year would affect the economy amid lingering expectations for additional monetary easing.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived here Wednesday for a series of leaders' meetings on East Asian cooperation and an official visit to Myanmar.
Soaring property prices and falling dairy prices driven by China's weakening demand are posing risks for New Zealand's otherwise sound financial system, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand warned Wednesday.
Scientists in Japan have discovered a "surprisingly simple" mechanism through which enterics can adjust to the very different oxygen environments inside the human gut and outside, which opens a new potential target against these bacteria, a Japanese research institution said Tuesday.
For the first eight months of this year ending August, the net inflows of foreign direct investment ( FDI) to the Philippines reached 4.3 billion U.S. dollars but the figure is still below compared to FDI inflows in other Asian economies.
Big businesses in South Korea, which had already depended heavily on China for their revenue, raised dependence on the world's No.2 economy in recent years for sales growth, a local corporate data provider said Tuesday.
New Zealand's central bank is looking to bolster the regulatory oversight of payment systems to guard against the effects of hacking, outages and other risks, Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) deputy governor Grant Spencer said Tuesday.
Hard times are more likely to drive people to religion, the New Zealand co-authors of an international study said Tuesday.
Japan's current account surplus for the first half of the fiscal 2014 stood at a record low at 2,023.9 billion yen (about 17.62 billion U.S. dollars) in the period from April to September, the Japanese Finance Ministry said Tuesday.
South Korean shares rose for three straight sessions Monday after negotiations for the China-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA) reached a substantive conclusion.
Foreigners have sold South Korean stocks for two months in a row as the local currency's fall to the U.S. dollar fueled worries about foreign exchange losses, financial watchdog data showed Monday.
Australia and China are set to complete a second, multi-billion dollar trade deal within a week, reaching an agreement to lift exports and cut the price of some consumer goods.
A Japanese research team has succeeded in turning mice transparent by administering them with special chemicals, a process the scientists say allows the observation of organs without dissection and contributes to studying progression of such diseases as cancers and diabetes, the Kyodo news agency reported Friday.
A team of Japanese scientists have developed a flying rescue robot with a device that can open doors to enter buildings hit by earthquakes or accidents, the Nikkei reported Friday.
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