The Chinese consortium of banks signed the 15 billion yuan loan facility agreement after it was signed by Pakistan, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said.
The country of 22 million people is struggling with its worst financial crisis in seven decades, unable to import essentials including food, fuel and medicines
The axing of the proposed Matarbari-2 plant in Bangladesh came in response to international and domestic criticism of Japan's funding of coal-fired power
Tether briefly dropped to $0.993 although it quickly regained parity with the dollar. But investors continue to pull money out of stablecoins and several have lost their pegs to underlying assets.
Colombo has called in financial advisers Lazard as it prepares to renegotiate its complex web of creditors, including bilateral loans from Japan, India and China
IPO proceeds in the Asia Pacific this year up to June 14 were down 26% from last year, while the count was 31% less than 2021, while global listings are less than half of last year
UN warned that climate change is progressing exponentially and has already hit India and Pakistan particularly hard
The company’s country manager in Singapore and its senior representative in India have both left, according to current and former employees
Chief executive Augustus Tang announced the recruitment drive almost two years after the company underwent a restructuring
The US Federal Open Market Committee raised the short-term federal funds rate to a range of 1.50% to 1.75% to stem a disruptive surge in inflation
Apple supplier to focus on expansion in Vietnam, India, Indonesia and North America, after operations at its factories in China were rocked by Covid lockdowns and labour shortages
Overseas investors offloaded a combined net total of $145 million in South Korean, Thai, Indian, Indonesian and Malaysian bonds last month, data showed