Extreme poverty is now below 1%, a remarkable feat in the world’s most populous nation, achieved by tapping people’s ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for pooling strength in the building of a Beautiful China and making the country even greener through afforestation efforts. Xi, also general secretary of the ...

THE first budget speech of Ghana’s new government on March 11th painted a picture of an economy in crisis, facing high debt and fiscal mismanagement. The finance minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, ...

For Tim Hsu, who sells modern lamps and ceiling lights mostly to American customers, US President Donald Trump’s historic ...

Asia will bear brunt of new US tariffs which will drag on regional growth, say economists. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Wall Street suffers its worst day since 2020 but the White House tells investors to "trust in President Trump".

Donald Trump’s new 10 per cent tariffs on goods sold to America are “not good news”, Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney ...

Having awoken Thursday to news of a long-awaited and long-feared new U.S. tariff regime, key American allies in East Asia ...

KATHMANDU, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Nepal is projected to see its poverty rate decline further to 5.6 percent in 2025 based on a per-day income of 3.65 U.S. dollars, the World Bank said on Thursday.

The World Bank’s poverty line is inaccurate and out of date – an error that obscures the feebleness of market solutions ...

Some of the world’s weakest economies in Asia are among those hardest-hit in opening salvo of global trade war ...