Brunei sees 5.9 pct drop in 2018 trade b...
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Brunei recorded a 5.9 percent drop in trade balance last year as growth in imports outpaced exports, according to government statistics released on Sunday. D
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Brunei sees 5.9 pct drop in 2018 trade b...
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Brunei recorded a 5.9 percent drop in trade balance last year as growth in imports outpaced exports, according to government statistics released on Sunday. D
Ghana raises 3 bln USD from Eurobond sal...
ACCRA, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Ghana successfully raised 3 billion U.S. dollars from its Eurobond sale to global investors on Tuesday, the government has said. Ghanaian Minister for Information Kojo Opp
Malaysia's sovereign fund Khazanah recor...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad said Tuesday it recorded a pre-tax loss of 6.27 billion ringgit (1.54 billion U.S. dollars) in 2018 due to
Malaysia's Petronas earnings up 22 pct o...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Malaysia's national oil firm Petronas announced Friday that the group's profit after tax rose 22 percent to 55.3 billion ringgit (13.52 billion U.S. dollars) in 2018
East China's Shandong unveils billion-do...
Transport authorities in east China's Shandong Province announced that it plans to invest 162.2 billion yuan (about 24.2 billion U.S. dollars) on roads, railways, ports and airports this year. The i
JD reports 22 pct revenue growth in Q4
BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com on Thursday reported a 22-percent year-on-year increase in net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2018. According to unaudited financial r
Mexico anti-fuel theft plan to stem $2.6...
Mexico's fight against rampant fuel theft is expected to save the government nearly 50 billion pesos (2.6 billion U.S. dollars) in losses this year, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursda
China sees rising FDI inflows in Jan-Feb
BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland expanded 5.5 percent year on year to reach 147.11 billion yuan (about 21.69 billion U.S. dollars) in the first
Tibet's GDP grows by 191 times from 1959...
Tibet's 2018 GDP reached 147.76 billion yuan (22 billion U.S. dollars), about 191 times more than the 1959 figure calculated at comparable prices, said a white paper released Wednesday by China's St
Trump's trade war cost U.S. economy $7.8...
President Donald Trump's trade battles cost the U.S. economy 7.8 billion U.S. dollars in lost gross domestic product in 2018, a study by a team of economists at leading American universities publishe
Philippines balance of payments position...
MANILA, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines' balance of payments (BOP) position for full-year 2018 posted a deficit of 2.3 billion U.S. dollars, "significantly higher" than the 863 million U.S. doll
Volkswagen launches efficiency program, ...
BERLIN, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Volkswagen will lay "important groundwork to sustainably strengthen its competitiveness" in 2019, the core brand of the Volkswagen Group announced on Wednesday. "The curr
CGN sees 14.02 pct growth in grid power ...
SHENZHEN, March 13 (Xinhua) -- China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) generated 157.04 billion kilowatt-hours of grid power in 2018, up 14.02 percent, the energy group announced Wednesday. CGN
U.S. trade deficit soars to 10-year high...
WASHINGTON, March 6 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. trade deficit soared to 621 billion U.S. dollars in 2018, the highest in a decade, data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Commerce showed. The 68.8
German chemicals firm Evonik turnover ri...
BERLIN, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Total turnover of Evonik increased by four percent to 15 billion euros (17.0 billion U.S. dollars) in 2018, according to data published by the German producer of specialty
Sri Lanka receives highest ever FDIs of ...
COLOMBO, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka received its highest ever foreign direct investments (FDI) of 2.37 billion U.S. dollars in 2018, up 38 percent from 1.78 billion U.S. dollars received a year e
HKSAR gov't expects annual surplus of 7....
The government of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is expected to have a surplus of 58.7 billion Hong Kong dollars (7.48 billion U.S. dollars) for the fiscal year of 2018-
Israel's pharmacy giant stock price drop...
JERUSALEM, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical, the world's largest generic drugmaker, reported on Wednesday a 16-percent drop in revenue and a net loss of 2.94 billion U.S. dollars in t
China's auto, internet giants to invest ...
China's major automobile and internet companies, including Chongqing Changan Automobile, Alibaba and Tencent, are setting up a 9.76-billion-yuan (1.46 billion U.S. dollars) joint venture to invest in
Lyft valued at $24.3 billion in first ri...
Lyft Inc. was valued at 24.3 billion U.S. dollars in the first initial public offering (IPO) of a ride-hailing startup on Thursday, raising more than it had set off to do as investors overlooked unce