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China's consumer prices grew at their fastest rate in almost eight years in October driven by a spike in pork prices caused by an outbreak of African swine fever, according to official figures released Saturday. The consumer price index (CPI) -- a key gauge of retail inflation...

The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) is going to introduce a new index at the Dhaka Stock Exchange this year to attract Chinese investors to the secondary market of Bangladesh’s premier bourse. An SZSE-led Chinese consortium, made up of Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges, became the strategic partner of...

China was pushing US president Donald Trump to remove more tariffs imposed in September as part of a ‘phase one’ US-China trade deal, people familiar with the negotiations said on Monday. The deal, which may be signed this month by Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping...

China's non-financial investment in countries along the Belt and Road (B&R) stood at 10.04 billion US dollars in the first three quarters, down 6.9 per cent year on year, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The investment took up 12.4 per cent of China's total non-financial outbound...

Profits at China’s industrial firms contracted in August, reversing the previous month’s brief gain, as weak domestic demand and the trade war with the United States weighed on corporate balance sheets. Industrial profits fell 2 percent in August from a year earlier to 517.8 billion yuan ($72.59...

The under-construction Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Centre at Purbachal satellite town will be launched in December next year (2020). Ministry of Commerce informed this at a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Commerce at Parliament Bhaban in the capital yesterday. The meeting was also...

US President Donald Trump will delay a planned tariff hike on $250bn (£202.8bn) of Chinese goods as a "gesture of good will". In a tweet, Mr Trump said a 5% increase to duties scheduled for 1 October will be postponed for two weeks. He said the delay had been requested by...

The prices Chinese firms pay factories for their goods fell last month at the fastest pace in three years, official data showed Tuesday, as slackening demand and the bruising US trade war drag on the economy. Consumer prices were also broadly subdued and only supported by a...

Some Chinese business sectors reported solid first half earnings, though a substantial fall in industrial profits and in tepid overseas investment inflows into China’s stock markets show fallout from the protracted trade war with the United States. Foreign portfolio inflows into stocks in the world’s second largest...

Asian markets sank again on Thursday as investors grow increasingly pessimistic about the outlook for China-US trade talks, while a closely watched recession indicator hit a level not seen since just before the financial crisis. The pound remained under pressure after Prime Minister Boris Johnson forced an extended suspension of parliament,...