WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday said its August 2021 allocation of $650 billion in Special Drawing Rights helped countries
BANGKOK — Hundreds of thousands of people are being trafficked by criminal gangs and forced to work in scam centers and other
TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. on Tuesday said it has suspended operations at all 14 of its assembly plants in Japan due
SINGAPORE — Despite improvements in China, air pollution across the globe continues to pose the greatest external risk to human health, with
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming — Record levels of government debt, geopolitical tensions that threaten to split the global trading system, and the likely
SEOUL – The United States, South Korea and Japan staged joint naval missile defense drills off the Korean peninsula on Tuesday, as North Korea accused Washington and its allies of creating
BEIJING – International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will visit China from Wednesday to meet with top leaders, before travelling to Indonesia and India for ASEAN and Group of 20 summits, an IMF spokesperson said on Tuesday. “During
SINGAPORE – China currently has 243 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired power either approved or under construction, enough to power the whole of Germany, with
HONG KONG – A county in eastern China is offering couples a “reward” of 1,000 yuan ($137) if the bride is aged 25 or younger, the latest measure to incentivize young people to get
VATICAN CITY/ULAANBAATAR — Mongolia’s Catholics — all 1,450 of them – could be squeezed standing into St. Peter’s Basilica dozens of times
