New Zealand’s smoking rate has fallen to a historic low of eight percent of adults smoking daily, down from 9.4 percent a year ago, ahead of the country’s goal of being smokefree by 2025, Associate [Read More]
Malaysia reported 3,304 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Wednesday, bringing the national total to 4,956,722, according to the health ministry. There are four new imported cases, with 3,300 cases being local transmissions, data released [Read More]
China’s central bank Thursday conducted 132 billion yuan (about 18.68 billion U.S. dollars) of reverse repos to maintain liquidity in the banking system. The interest rate for the seven-day reverse repos was set at 2 [Read More]
In all four waves of COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, the highest proportion of deaths have occurred in people who are most disadvantaged, data has revealed. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recently released data, saying [Read More]
Leaders are gathering in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, for the 29th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting on Nov. 18-19. The leaders’ meeting is held in person this year after two editions hosted [Read More]
New Zealand’s producer output and input prices have increased in the September 2022 quarter, the country’s statistics department Stats NZ said on Thursday. In the September quarter, prices received by producers of goods and services [Read More]
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Thursday urged the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies to join hands in achieving sustainable growth amid global challenges at the APEC CEO Summit. Prayut, whose country is the host [Read More]
Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that his country would keep promoting tolerance and peace for social and economic development in the country. “Growing trends of intolerance not only pose dangerous threats to peace [Read More]
Vietnam’s economy faces strong headwinds amid slowing local and external demand, the World Bank said in a report on Wednesday. Rising inflation and tightening domestic financial conditions could affect domestic demand during the next months, [Read More]
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