Indian economy to reach US$5 trillion size by 2022
14:38 | 24/09/2018 Global Economy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said last week the size of Indian economy will double to US$5 trillion by 2022 with manufacturing and agriculture contributing US$1 trillion each.
South-East Asia’s GDP growth to cool amid rising trade tensions
14:42 | 21/09/2018 Global Economy
Economic growth across the South-East Asia region is expected to cool in H2 2018 into 2019 according to ICAEW’s latest Economic Insight: South-East Asia report. Growth in the region is expected to ease to 5.1% this year from 5.2% in 2017, with growth moderating further in 2019 to 4.8% as moderating Chinese import demand and escalating US-China trade tensions dampen exports and business investment.
NZ's Foodstuffs pulls Australian strawberries off shelves over needle sabotage
15:57 | 20/09/2018 Global Economy
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has ordered the food safety watchdog to investigate Queensland's handling of the strawberry spiking saga.
Trump slaps tariffs on US$200 billion in Chinese goods
10:48 | 19/09/2018 Global Economy
U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his trade war with China on Monday, imposing 10 percent tariffs on US$200 billion worth of Chinese imports.
Vietnam relatively safer than ASEAN peers in trade war storm
15:45 | 18/09/2018 Global Economy
Unlike most other ASEAN countries, who have been buffeted by the China-U.S. trade war, Vietnam could actually benefit from it.
Korea, MERCOSUR convene first round of negotiations for trade agreement
15:52 | 17/09/2018 Global Economy
Korean government officials led by the Trade Ministry’s Director General for Free Trade Agreement Negotiations Kim Ki-joon met with their counterparts from the South American trade bloc, MERCOSUR, led by Director General for Integration and MERCOSUR Affairs of the Uruguayan Foreign Ministry Valeria Csukasi to convene the first round of negotiations for a trade agreement between the two parties in Montevideo, Uruguay, on September 11.
Venezuelan President heads to China with ‘great expectations’
14:16 | 14/09/2018 Global Economy
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is travelling to China to discuss economic agreements, as the crisis-struck Opec nation seeks to convince its key Asian financier to disburse fresh loans.
Turkey's economy grows 5.2 pct in Q2, set to slow down
16:25 | 13/09/2018 Global Economy
Turkish economic growth slowed to 5.2 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, in what officials described as an "economic rebalancing" before an expected second-half slowdown as Turkey grapples with a currency crisis.
4th Eastern Economic Forum opens in Russia's Vladivostok
10:09 | 12/09/2018 Global Economy
World leaders and business tycoons gathered in Russia's Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok to discuss cooperation at the fourth Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) that opened on September 11.
WEF ASEAN 2018 opens in Hanoi
14:28 | 11/09/2018 Global Economy
The World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF ASEAN) themed “ASEAN 4.0: Entrepreneurship and the Fourth Industrial Revolution” kicked off in Hanoi on September 11.
