Loan recipients of China, such as Sri Lanka, Egypt and Ghana, find themselves strapped for cash after suffering severe impacts from the Covid pandemic and global inflation.

China's purchases have climbed in order to reap the benefits of a plunge in European buying as sanctions push Moscow in search of alternative markets.

Details will include plans for the struggling island nation's multibillion-dollar International Monetary Fund bailout

Chinese surveillance technologies and tactics are being rolled out in more than 50 countries, including facial recognition CCTV and social media bans, The Straits Times said

"Our relations with these countries will be moved to a much different position with this step. Of course [membership], that's the target," Turkey president Tayyip Erdogan said.

Nanmadol, classified as a super typhoon by the U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center, could be the most powerful to hit Japan in decades.

Sri Lanka will upgrade its FTA with India to a comprehensive economic partnership, Wickremesinghe said. IMF deal is done but bilateral creditors and private debt still needs to be restructured

China’s imposition of tariffs and restrictions on metals, food, and energy is worsening the pressure on global inflation

Xi Jinping met Vladimir Putin in Samarkand where they are attending a summit of The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

South Korea’s factory activity has contracted at its sharpest rate in two years and manufacturing numbers in Japan, Taiwan and China have all slipped

Japan's economy expanded an annualised 2.2% in April-June, staging a slower-than-expected rebound from a Covid-induced slump.

India's move on Thursday is expected to lead to price increases by other major exporters, like Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar. It could hit China and the Philippines hardest.