Monetary / Fiscal Policy / Policy Makers

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police said on Wednesday four students were arrested for "advocating terrorism"...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is in close contact with a "small number" of its nationals still in Afghanistan, seeking to ensure...

By Yew Lun Tian and Yimou Lee BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China carried out assault drills near Taiwan on Tuesday, with warships...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Japanese government is set to extend its state of emergency soft lockdown measures in Tokyo and other...

By Lovasoa Rabary ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar's president named a new finance minister in an enlarged cabinet, days after sacking...

By Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India will launch a 100 trillion rupee ($1.35 trillion) national infrastructure plan that will...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman spoke with Lithuania's foreign minister on Friday and reiterated U.S....

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Friday it was setting up a new group...

By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Support for Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga slid further below 30% in...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Ningbo airport has suspended inbound and outbound flights to the capital Beijing from August 11 due...

ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has sacked all his ministers, his office said, days after he criticised some...

By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's lower house of Congress voted down a plan by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house of Congress late on Tuesday voted down a proposed constitutional amendment backed by President...

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian central bank President Julio Velarde has agreed to stay on for an extra...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) -Under pressure from businesses and public sectors facing a worker shortage that policymakers fear will...

By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro ignored calls to drop his feud with the Supreme Court...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -A Brazilian congressional committee on Thursday voted against a constitutional amendment to adopt printed ballots, in a major...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese prosecutor asked central bank governor Riad Salameh for documents relating to suspicions of embezzlement, money...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's incoming presidential chief of staff Ciro Nogueira said on Wednesday the government will relaunch an ambitious social...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has carried out a threat to publicly shame people not complying with coronavirus border control measures,...