"Militias are threatening and terrifying bank staff and are sometimes abducting their children and relatives to force them to go to work," Kabir told the newspaper via telephone.He also said attempts ...

China's outstanding individual mortgage loans totalled 37.79 trillion yuan ($5.33 trillion) at the end of June, down 2.1% from a year earlier, the People's Bank of China said.That compared with a fall ...

LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar held steady near a one-week high versus major peers on Friday, on track to snap a five-week losing streak after robust economic data caused investors to pare bets o ...

China's commerce ministry said in a statement it had found that European distillers had been selling brandy in its 1.4 billion-strong consumer market at a margin in the range of 30.6% to 39.0% and tha ...

CPTPP is a free trade agreement sealed in 2018 between 11 countries - Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Britain is the only European ...

"It won't matter if it (home buying) is real demand, but if speculative demand stemming from asset management purposes boost home prices we will manage policy interest rates. We need to make clear mes ...

BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's local governments have fallen behind on their debt issuance plans as scrutiny mounts over potentially wasteful infrastructure investment, fuelling talk that such ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Some Hong Kong developers are now turning to housing rental and the leasing market to weather a prolonged downturn in its property market and to serve surging rental demand from ...