USD: The Dollar Index peaked on January 13 near 110.25. It tested the month's low near 107.75 on Wednesday. It bounced to 108 ...

The modest bump in births in 2024 is a temporary rebound largely driven by unusually favourable social conditions. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Chinese government is trying to encourage people to spend more by ensuring that share prices will rise, ordering pensions and mutual funds to invest more in domestic stock markets ...

In 2017, weeks after Donald Trump’s first presidential election victory, Xi Jinping became the first Chinese head of state to ...

Beijing has assured Dhaka it will look into the request to lower the interest rate to ease Bangladesh’s foreign debt ...

The People's Bank of China maintained its interest rates for the third straight session on Monday as policymakers await the stance of ...

China left key lending rates unchanged on Monday for the third straight month as the country seeks to maintain currency ...

Beijing contends with a weakening yuan while awaiting policy clues from the incoming Donald Trump’s administration.

China's central bank and top securities regulator have vowed to ramp up supportive policy tools to shore up the country's ...

Here are three reasons why Xi has bigger challenges than Trump's tariffs: There is a growing chorus of warnings that China's economy will slow in 2025. One major driving factor of last year's growth ...

Pan Gongsheng, Governor of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), met with Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England (BOE), ...

China's economic growth is likely to slow to 4.5% in 2025 and cool further to 4.2% in 2026, according to the poll. The ...