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By Libby George and Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) – The punishing post-COVID wave of sovereign defaults has finally crested, with the likes of Ghana, Sri Lanka and Zambia concluding years…

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s investment applications rose 42% in the January-September period from the same period a year earlier, led by electronic manufacturing and data centre projects, the Board of…

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s newly minted leader, President Prabowo Subianto, will officially swear in his cabinet on Monday, which analysts said reflected continuity of his predecessor’s main policies. Prabowo took…

By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Asia shares dipped in and out of positive territory on Monday, under pressure from weakness in Chinese stocks, but bitcoin scaled a three-month peak…

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – A court on Monday ordered Australia’s Qantas Airways to pay a combined A$170,000 ($114,000) to three baggage handlers it unlawfully sacked in 2020, implying…

By Amy Lv and Tony Munroe BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Chinese steelmakers, already exporting at near-decade high volumes, are set to keep pushing out shipments in 2025 to manage overcapacity and soft…

Investing.com– The People’s Bank of China cut its benchmark loan prime rate by slightly more than expected on Monday, with the cut coming amid a flurry of measures from Beijing…

By Samuel Shen and Vidya Ranganathan SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -China cut benchmark lending rates as anticipated at the monthly fixing on Monday, following reductions to other policy rates last month as…

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Cryptocurrency bitcoin hit a three-month high in early Asia trading on Monday and the dollar looked set to extend its gains in markets counting down to the…