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Asian shares got the week off to a cautious start on Monday, with Chinese markets holding steady, as a spike in coronavirus cases across the region over the weekend hurt investor sentiment while oil hovered around 2-1/2 year highs.
Satellite imagery shows China landed two of its most advanced bombers in the disputed Paracel islands in the South China Sea this month - a gesture that some analysts described as Beijing's latest signalling of its growing military capabilities to rivals.
Cheaper prices and rising energy demand are boosting seaborne imports of thermal coal among most, but not all, of Asia's major buyers of the fuel used to generate power.
For the past few years, crop machinery has sat idle in many Australian farm sheds as a devastating drought left almost nothing to harvest across the country's pancake-flat eastern wheatbelt.
Citigroup Inc displayed some of the financial bruises required for its current restructuring as it reported a 26% drop in fourth-quarter profit on Friday.
With tropical heat, remote island communities and a dearth of ultra-cold freezers, many Asian countries aren't betting on Pfizer's experimental vaccine solving their COVID-19 crisis any time soon.
Wheat growers in several exporting countries are reluctant to sell their crops with prices near four-year lows, traders, farmers and millers say, leaving flour makers with dwindling supplies and vulnerable to any potential upswing in prices.
World leaders are heading to South America for twin summits this month, with one major theme dominating: Donald Trump 2.0.
Bringing a message that "Brazil is back" in the fight against global warming, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met with climate envoys from China and the United States on Tuesday in Egypt for the COP27 talks, on his first foreign trip since being elected Brazilian president.
China said on Tuesday its military took steps to warn and alert an Australian aircraft after Australia blamed a Chinese fighter jet for endangering one of its military helicopters during an "unsafe" confrontation over the Yellow Sea.
Myanmar's U.N. envoy urged the United Nations to use "any means necessary" to stop a military coup there, making a surprise appeal on behalf of the ousted government as police cracked down on anti-junta protesters.
Southeast Asian foreign ministers mediating on the crisis in Myanmar called on Monday for its military rulers to free prisoners and start an agreed political dialogue, expressing disappointment at "very slow" progress so far.
For decades foreign companies and investors flocked to the People’s Republic seeking cheap labour, new markets and, for some, weaker protections for workers and the environment. As the country looks set to lose the title of World’s Most Populous Nation to India, some capitalists are wondering whether the next China is to be found there, or Indonesia, or Mexico. Yet China’s demographic doom is not certain.
Qantas Airways Ltd on Thursday said it was preparing for international travel with countries with high vaccine rates to resume in December, sending shares higher, as it reported a narrower annual loss of A$1.73 billion ($1.26 billion).
Southeast Asian leaders said they had agreed on a plan with Myanmar's junta chief on Saturday to end the crisis in the violence-hit nation, but he did not explicitly respond to demands to halt the killing of civilian protesters.
Russia's weekend backtrack from a U.N.-brokered deal to export Black Sea grains is likely to hit shipments to import-dependent countries, deepening a global food crisis and sparking gains in prices.
A clobbering for South Africa's, Mexico's and even India's heavyweight markets in recent days has proved without doubt that politics can still deliver an unexpected uppercut in big emerging economies.
Tougher U.S. trade penalties on goods originating in one country being re-shipped from another are not expected to immediately follow new U.S. tariffs, three people in Southeast Asia with knowledge of the matter said, easing a major cause of concern.
China's electricity generation from thermal fuels such as coal jumped in October while coal output declined, leading to higher prices for both domestic fuel supplies and imports.
Emerging market stocks and currencies fell on Friday as a risk-off mood swept global markets after talks to end the Middle East conflict stalled, while MSCI flagged fresh concerns about Indonesia's investment appeal.