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Asian shares inched higher on Friday after global stock indexes and Wall Street posted more records, with strong corporate earnings and upbeat U.S. economic data adding to optimism after China and the U.S. signed a partial trade deal.

China is expected to report on Friday that economic growth slowed to its weakest in nearly three decades in 2019 amid a bruising trade war with the United States, and more stimulus steps are expected this year to help avert sharper slowdown.

BEIJING: China's economy weakened to its slowest pace in three decades last year as weaker domestic demand and trade tensions with the United States took their toll, official data showed Friday (Jan 17). The world's second-largest economy grew 6.1 per cent in 2019, the slowest in 29 years but ...

A Canadian court on Monday will consider a US request to hand over Chinese tech executive Meng Wanzhou, whose arrest 13 months ago on fraud charges plunged Canada-China relations into a deep freeze.

China's economy grew 6.0per cent in the fourth quarter of 2019 from a year earlier, official data showed on Friday, in line with expectations and unchanged from the previous quarter's pace.

SINGAPORE fintech Pay2Home has launched a service to let users pay for their digital remittance transactions by cash at local 7-Eleven stores, it said on Friday.

Asian shares inched higher on Friday after global stock indexes and Wall Street posted more records, with strong corporate earnings and upbeat U.S. economic data adding to optimism after China and the U.S. signed a partial trade deal.

The public market capitalization of Google parent Alphabet topped the US$1 trillion mark shortly before the close of trading on Thursday, making it the fourth S&P 500 component to top the lofty level.

SINGAPORE: Singapore's exports made a surprise rebound in December after nine months of contraction, partly due to a sharp rise in pharmaceutical shipments, official data showed on Friday (Jan 17). Non-oil domestic exports expanded 2.4 per cent year-on-year in December, data from trade agency ...

Four companies sued Facebook in U.S. federal court on Thursday for alleged anticompetitive conduct, saying the social network inappropriately revoked developer access to its platform in order to harm prospective competitors.