Having watched his father's funeral pyre burn by a river bank close to their farm last month, Indian sugarcane grower Dattatray Bagal and his brothers had to set aside grief to count the financial cost of the coronavirus's impact on their family.
BEIJING -China's state planner and market regulator have jointly launched an investigation into coal prices and will crack down on speculation and hoarding, the country's economic planning agency said on Friday. Reuters last week reported that a team of inspectors from five government departments ...
REUTERS: China has advised Meituan Chairman and CEO Wang Xing to keep a low profile after he posted an ancient poem last month that sparked a social media furore and sent the food delivery firm's shares plummeting, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. Government officials summoned the founder of ......
JAKARTA: Indonesia motorbike sales jumped 1,065.67per cent on an annual basis in May to 254,710 units, returning to pre-pandemic levels, the Indonesia Motorcycle Industry Association said on Friday, citing data from the government. (Reporting by Tabita Diela; Editing by Gayatri Suroyo and Ed ...
China's benchmark lending rate is set to remain unchanged at its June fixing on Monday, but there are growing expectations of an interest rate rise in China after the U.S. Federal Reserve adopted a more hawkish tone, a Reuters survey showed.
BEIJING: China's state planner and market regulator have jointly launched an investigation on coal prices and will crack down on speculation and hoarding, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Friday. The NDRC said in a statement that soaring coal prices have added a ...
MANILA: The Philippine central bank on Friday revised its current account surplus projection for this year to US$10 billion, or 2.5per cent of gross domestic product, wider than its previous forecast of US$9.1 billion, or 2.3per cent of GDP. For next year, the current-account surplus is ...
Bank of Japan (BOJ) board member Takako Masai abstained from voting at Friday's policy meeting of her own will as she was a candidate for the board of a private firm, the central bank said.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's FGV Holdings Bhd will appoint an independent auditor to assess its operations for signs of forced labour on the advice of U.S. Customs, the company told the stock exchange on Friday, with a report expected eight months later. In September, the U.S. Customs and Border ......
TOKYO: Business confidence among Japan's large manufacturers likely improved in the second quarter thanks to a boost to exports and corporate profits from a global demand recovery, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. Other data next week is expected to show the Tokyo-area consumer price index ...
