World economy
Trump asks Apple to pull out of China as trade war escalates
10 Sep 2018
US President Donald Trump called for Apple to make its products in the US instead of China, even as he threatened to impose levies on all of Chinese goods imported to the United States
Trump asks Apple to pull out of China as trade war escalates
10 Sep 2018
US President Donald Trump called for Apple to make its products in the US instead of China, even as he threatened to impose levies on all of Chinese goods imported to the United States
Greener growth could add $26 trn to world economy by 2030: report
06 Sep 2018
Greener growth could generate over 65 million new low-carbon jobs, avoid over 700,000 premature deaths and generate an estimated $2.8 trillion in government revenues per year in 2030 - equivalent to the total GDP of India today, says the report
Did death rate affect the 2016 US presidential elections?
06 Sep 2018
New analysis shows that relatively modest incremental reductions in age-adjusted, county-level death rates could have had an influence on voting in swing states
China's belt and road projects jam nations’ finances: report
03 Sep 2018
The report comes ahead of a summit of African leaders in Beijing focused on China’s `Belt and Road’ project
BISTEC pledges peaceful, sustainable Bay of Bengal region
31 Aug 2018
The `Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development’ adopted at the summit acknowledges the need for enhanced inter-linkages and inter-dependence within the economies and societies in the BIMSTEC member states
Trump threatens to pull US out of `unfair’ WTO: report
31 Aug 2018
With China moving the WTO against the US against its impost of tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods, a pull-out from the global trade body is the only way to ward off challenges
US, Canada wow new NAFTA deal by Friday
30 Aug 2018
After Monday’s deal with Mexico, US President Donald Trump is upbeat on signing a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada by Friday
US, Mexico sign into new deal ahead of overhauling NAFTA
28 Aug 2018
US President Donald Trump said negotiations with Canada will start soon, but incorporating Canada into an overhauled NAFTA will depend on the outcome of talks
Scott Morrison to become Australia's next prime minister
25 Aug 2018
Morrison, Australia's fifth prime minister in so many years and the sixth in less than 10 years, will lead a coalition between the Liberal and National parties with a one-seat majority
US, China trade war escalates with tariffs on $16bn imports as talks fail
24 Aug 2018
Instead, the US last night imposed a 25 per cent tariff on $16 billion worth of Chinese goods coming into the US and China responded tit-for-tat, bringing the fresh tariffs on bilateral trade to $106 billion, or roughly 17 per cent of all US-China trade
China shifts to Iranian tankers to keep oil flowing amid US sanctions
21 Aug 2018
China, Iran’s biggest oil customer, wants to keep buying Iranian crude even as the United States is trying to halt Iranian oil exports to curb its influence in the Middle East