The CPI rose 5.4% in May from a year before, according to Statistics Korea data, faster than the 4.8% rise the previous month and above the 5.1% tipped in a Reuters poll
China’s markets were lifted by easing Covid curbs and new stimulus measures but global recession worries cast a shadow over Hong Kong and Tokyo
Musk previously played down the risks of coronavirus, saying "the coronavirus panic is dumb" and children were “essentially immune”. He later contracted Covid-19 twice.
As well as chairing Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, the bourse's parent company, Cha also sits on the Hong Kong government’s executive council
Local governments will need to issue another $210bn in special bonds this month if they want to meet the cabinet's half-year goal
WM Motor's IPO document does not reveal the size of the deal but a listing would move WM founder Freeman Shen closer to his dream of mass-producing affordable EVs
The carmaker will procure electricity from renewable sources and use carbon-neutral vehicles at its factories, among other measures, it said in a statement
India’s fast-rising Russian oil imports are being matched by its rising oil exports suggesting it may be reselling Russia’s oil to the West.
US tech giant Apple told its Taiwan suppliers that products moving to China must be labelled to state that the island is a part of China and not an independent nation
Despite a moribund British economy and heavy corporate tax, Indian-owned tech firms are growing in the UK.
The Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.