China’s currency has weakened to its lowest level since 2007 in the latest sign Beijing is willing to tolerate gradual depreciation in response to US tariffs. The onshore renminbi slipped to Rmb7.351 ...

From Professor David Zeitlyn, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK ...

Underpinning Japan’s doggedness is a yearning for the world to more closely resemble the friendly international cuddle of an expo than reality would ever allow. Osaka hosted a brilliant expo in 1970 ...

Might restrictions, regulatory or fiscal, upon the purchase (or holding) of, for example, US Treasury bonds by EU institutions or citizens, form part of the European response to American tariffs ...

Asking customers for a relatively small deposit (much less than the cost of a cinema ticket), to secure their booking, is a logical and fair way of nudging customers to make good on their intention.

For decades, Australia has taken a no-nonsense approach to road safety. In the early 1970s, it was the first country to ...

The trend marks a shift from the Philippines’ association with call centres, which began in the 1990s when US companies ...

Some of Asia-Pacific’s largest economies — Japan, South Korea and China — are facing demographic decline, industrial ...

US stocks surged on Wednesday after Donald Trump backed off his plans to hit a huge swath of trading partners with steep ...

Also in today’s newsletter, Apple leans on India to help ease Trump’s China tariffs, and Ukraine says more than 150 Chinese nationals fighting for Russia ...

Things were looking very dicey for Americans, after the White House introduced an aggressive and bafflingly calculated set of ...

In the 90-day pause period, it seems that the US president wants to simply Do Deals with every country in the world. In the interim, the US is imposing an additional universal 10-per-cent tariff, as ...