Most Asian buyers halted imports in 2019 after Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal with Iran and re-imposed sanctions on oil exports

Nowhere is the pressure more acute than in Taiwan, the world centre of advanced chipmaking, where the appetite for engineering talent is growing

Asia-Pacific is the world’s largest net food and energy importer but it is not monolithic so a spike in food and energy prices would have an uneven impact

The Millennium Challenge Corporation, a US government aid agency, provided $500 million in grants for a power line and road project

The bank expects revenue to grow an extra 3% per year as it benefits from rising interest rates as policymakers look to turn off years of cheap funding

Oil recovered some of its more than 2% fall in Asian trade on Thursday after Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine accused government forces in Kyiv of shelling their territory with mortars

The move is part of the nation's latest textile policy which seeks to consolidate recent growth in a sector that accounts for 60% exports

Singapore GDP grew 6.1% year-on-year in the fourth quarter, the ministry of trade and industry said, slightly higher than the government's advance estimate

China is now the world’s third-largest green bond market after France and Germany, accounting for about $145 billion of green bonds outstanding

Progress by emerging Asian nations in using local currencies in trade and investment has strengthened the regional financial safety net, the PBOC chief said

Slowing economic momentum and policy easing in China has cast a pall over the yuan's mid-term outlook, which is historically an ill wind for neighbours

The move comes as over 1,600 trucks are stuck at border gates in the north awaiting clearance from the Chinese side, the report said