Climate change has ravaged India's rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis
Satish Kumar sits in front of his submerged rice paddy in India's Haryana state, looking despairingly at his ruined crops.
2023-08-29 09:47
Chinese stocks get brief uplift from first share dealing tax cut since 2008
China has made a series of moves to restore investor confidence in the world's second largest economy, including cutting a tax on stock trading for the first time since 2008.
2023-08-28 17:55
China's Evergrande says losses narrowed by 50% in the first half of 2023 as shares plunge
Evergrande Group, the world's most indebted real state developer, has reported a significant narrowing in its net losses for the first half of the year, thanks to a rise in revenue because of "the short boom of the property market" earlier this year.
2023-08-28 10:56
US Commerce Secretary Raimondo pledges to be 'practical' in working with China
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says she is visiting Beijing "with the spirit of being practical and finding concrete opportunities" to advance mutual interests at her Monday meeting with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao.
2023-08-28 10:45
China says its ban on Japanese seafood is about safety. Is it really?
In the busy streets of Hong Kong's Central district the lunchtime queues snake around the swanky Japanese restaurants where high-end sushi can sell at $150 a pop just for a tasting menu.
2023-08-28 09:58
France and EU to spend 215 million euros shoring up struggling wine producers
The French government and the European Union will spend 200 million euros ($215 million) to help the country's wine producers, who are struggling to cope with falling prices and waning demand.
2023-08-26 19:55
Four million children in Pakistan have no safe water, a year after deadly floods
One year after catastrophic floods devastated swathes of Pakistan, some 4 million children in the South Asian nation remain without access to safe water, the United Nations children's agency has warned.
2023-08-25 17:28
IMF chief says Africa must do these three things to increase trade
Africa's growth has been sluggish in recent years, but IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva believes new opportunities lie ahead.
2023-08-25 16:49
Saudi Arabia, UAE and Iran among six countries invited to join BRICS group
Oil powers Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been invited to become members of the BRICS group of developing nations in its first expansion in over a decade.
2023-08-25 11:20
China is launching an 'unprecedented' crackdown on corruption in its health industry as economic woes pile up
China has launched a sweeping anti-corruption campaign targeting its hospitals, pharmaceutical industry and insurance funds as it grapples with mounting economic challenges and long-standing public frustration about high costs in the behemoth healthcare sector.
2023-08-25 10:46
The US needs a stable Chinese economy. Will Biden's commerce secretary offer help?
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo will travel to China next week, a visit that coincides with a worsening slowdown in the world's second largest economy.
2023-08-25 10:22
Japanese family says young doctor took his life after working 200 hours overtime in a single month
The family of a 26-year-old doctor in Japan who died by suicide last year after working more than 200 hours of overtime in a single month have pleaded for change in a nation long plagued by overwork culture.
2023-08-24 09:57