KYIV – Ukraine’s government has lifted restrictions on fuel prices to enable traders to import more and make up the shortage Ukraine is experiencing after Russian forces destroyed many storage…
By Kitiphong Thaichareon BANGKOK – Thailand’s finance minister said on Tuesday this year’s economic outlook was still good despite the state planning agency’s downgrade of its growth forecast, adding he…
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah met his counterpart from Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG), a shadow administration outlawed by the ruling military junta, in the group’s first…
(Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tested positive for COVID-19 with moderate symptoms, her office said in a statement on Saturday. She will not be in parliament for…
By David Lawder WASHINGTON – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday to discuss how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affects Poland’s economy…
By Natalia Zinets KYIV – Ukraine has been forced to spend 245.1 billion hryvnia ($8.3 billion) on its war with Russia instead of development, the finance minister said on Thursday,…
(Reuters) – The Russian government on Wednesday appointed deputy economy minister Sergei Galkin as the new head of the Rosstat statistics service. Pavel Malkov, the previous head of Rosstat, was…
JAKARTA – Indonesian President Joko Widodo is planning to meet Elon Musk during an upcoming U.S. visit, a minister said on Monday, as the Southeast Asian country seeks to accelerate…
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON – Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said she met her Solomon Islands counterpart Jeremiah Manele for the first time since his government signed a controversial security…
By Marianna Parraga HOUSTON – Guyana is in “no rush” to draft a new production sharing agreement (PSA) for offshore oil development, its Natural Resources minister told Reuters, reversing a…
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA – Canada is talking to a number of companies interested in setting up production in the electric vehicle (EV) supply chain, the industry minister said, as…
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STOCKHOLM – Finland will almost certainly apply for membership in NATO, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Ann Linde told Swedish television on Sunday. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced both Sweden and…
By Eliana Raszewski BUENOS AIRES – Argentina, battling a deep and costly energy deficit, is looking to attract some $10 billion in private investment to help it jump start exports…
(Reuters) – Russia’s National Wealth Fund (NWF), a rainy-day cushion containing oil revenues, will be the main source of financing for a budget deficit seen at 1.6 trillion roubles ($21.6…
By Marek Strzelecki and Kate Abnett WARSAW – It is too early to say if Poland will ask the European Union for approval to extend capacity market support for coal-fuelled…
By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO -Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said there was “no truth” to media reports that he had discussed with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen…
KABUL – Afghanistan’s acting defence minister said on Sunday that the Taliban administration would not tolerate “invasions” from its neighours after protesting against airstrikes it says were conducted by neighbouring…
ABOARD USS LINCOLN – Japan’s foreign minister promised his country would bolster its military to help the United States maintain regional security during a visit on Saturday to a U.S.…
BERLIN – Germany must do everything in its power to help Ukraine win the war against Russia but without endangering its own security and NATO’s defence capability, Finance Minister Christian…
MUMBAI – India wants to be strong friends with the “liberal world” but it needs Russia’s assistance to defend its borders, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Bloomberg in an interview…
By Rachel Savage and Karin Strohecker LONDON – Energy prices that have soared since Russia’s war in Ukraine are a “major concern” for South Africa’s economy, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana…
PARIS -Inflation will be high in 2022 and although the price pressure should progressively ease next year, France and its partner countries are set to enter into “a new era…
WASHINGTON – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told her counterpart from Indonesia that there will be no “business-as-usual” for Russia in the global economy given its invasion of Ukraine, the…
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON – New Zealand’s finance minister said on Tuesday the government should continue to be careful about spending and flagged the introduction of new fiscal rules in…