By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – A recent crackdown on migrant smuggling and human trafficking throughout the Americas turned up migrants from 69 countries, an indicator of the steep growth in…
By Anshuman Daga SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Standard Chartered expects Asia and the Middle East to outperform other regions even as spiralling inflation and a spike in borrowing costs risk tipping…
By Promit Mukherjee and Joe Bavier JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s South Africa unit aims to develop new markets for its petrol and diesel cars in Asia and Latin America, its…
By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY – The Panama Canal has seen a 30% fall in the traffic of vessels carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG), driven by Asia’s weak demand for…
BEIJING – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit four Asian countries from Sunday, her office said, without mentioning Taiwan amid intense speculation she might visit the self-ruled island claimed…
By Xie Yu HONG KONG – China’s crisis-hit property sector has driven underperformance this year in some Asia-focused credit funds, including one led by a former Lehman Brothers portfolio manager,…
By Karen Lema MANILA – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday slashed its growth forecasts for developing Asia for this year and next, reflecting the economic fallout from Russia’s…
HONG KONG – Alex To, one of Bank of America’s top rainmakers in Asia, has recently left the bank, three people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. To, based…
NUSA DUA, Indonesia – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and other senior officials in Seoul on Tuesday as she wraps up her…
By Lucy Craymer and Elaine Lies WELLINGTON/TOKYO – A new wave of coronavirus infections is rapidly spreading through Asia, prompting warnings for residents from New Zealand to Japan to take…
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL – The recent attendance by four Asia Pacific leaders at the NATO summit reflects a “consequential shift” in the U.S. transatlantic security partnership which Washington seeks…
(Reuters) – Industrial conglomerate 3M Co said on Friday it will exit its Neoplast and Neobun brands in Thailand and some other Southeast Asian countries, and sell manufacturing assets at…
By Scott Murdoch HONG KONG – Citigroup Inc has created a new regional leadership structure for its Asian business, according to a memo seen by Reuters. Tim Monger has been…
China Launches Largest Aircraft Carrier Asia Has Ever Built Philip Lenczycki on June 17, 2022 China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy reportedly launched Asia’s largest aircraft carrier to date on…
By Rae Wee and Alun John SINGAPORE/HONG KONG – Asia’s emerging economies are better placed than most other regions to weather a bout of turbo-charged U.S. policy tightening, analysts say,…
By Shashwat Awasthi and Savyata Mishra (Reuters) – Bearish bets on several Asian currencies hit a record high in the face of rising U.S. interest rates that supported the dollar,…
By Selena Li HONG KONG – Manulife Financial’s Asia unit is on track to account for half of the Canadian insurer’s core earnings by 2025 despite economic slowdowns and impact…
By Scott Murdoch and Kane Wu HONG KONG – Buyout funds are set to extend a record spending spree in Asia to the rest of the year but they will…
By Chen Lin and Idrees Ali SINGAPORE – Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged on Friday to boost its regional security presence to counter multiple threats, from China’s expansion in…
By Marwa Rashad LONDON (Reuters – An at least three-week shutdown at Freeport LNG, operator of one of the largest U.S. export plants producing liquefied natural gas (LNG), is expected…
By Harish Sridharan (Reuters) – Bearish bets on Asian currencies reduced on signs that China’s economic pain may abate with easing of COVID-19 curbs, but analysts were still wary of…
TOKYO – The crisis in Ukraine is a global issue, not a regional one, U.S. President Joe Biden said at a meeting of the Quad grouping of countries in Tokyo…
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY – Australia’s new Labor government will put greater focus on relations with Southeast Asia and climate change, an issue crucial to its Pacific neighbours, as it…
By Nichola Saminather (Reuters) – Canada’s biggest life insurers, Manulife Financial and Sun Life Financial on Wednesday reported core earnings fell from a year ago as the COVID-19 pandemic took…
Biden Taps Donor With CCP Ties To Represent US Business In Asia Philip Lenczycki on April 29, 2022 President Joe Biden tapped a Democrat donor with ties to the Chinese…