CHINA will step up efforts to improve its fiscal and monetary policy in order to boost domestic consumption and enhance people's well-being, as the country accelerates toward becoming a major hub of global demand, officials said on Sunday.

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Authorities say Singapore’s import cost pressures are likely to rise in the near term.

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TOKYO: Japan's top currency diplomat Atsushi Mimura said on Monday that the government is prepared to take all measures to tackle volatility in foreign exchange markets, cautioning that speculative trade on oil futures could be impacting currencies.

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SHANGHAI: China and Hong Kong stocks fell sharply in early trading on Monday, as the escalating Middle East war roiled global financial markets.

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TEL AVIV/JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON: Iran warned it would strike energy and water infrastructure across the Gulf if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to attack its electricity grid, raising fears of mass disruption in a region heavily...

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TOKYO, March 23 — The dollar rose today as escalating retaliatory threats in the Middle East conflict curbed risk...

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HONG KONG: Global hedge funds' selling of emerging Asia market stocks last week was the most since April 2025 amid heightened risk aversion, according to a Goldman Sachs client note seen by Reuters.

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SHANGHAI, March 23 — China and Hong Kong stocks fell sharply in early trading today, as the escalating Middle East...

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SYDNEY: Share markets slid in Asia on Monday and the dollar firmed as the United States and Iran traded escalating threats and Israel planned for "weeks" more fighting, sending oil prices on another roller-coaster ride.

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GOLD prices slipped more than 3% on Monday, extending their drop to a roughly four-month low, as an escalating Middle East conflict stoked inflation concerns and expectations of higher global interest rates.

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DUBAI: Saudi Aramco Chief Executive Amin Nasser has cancelled his planned appearance at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston to remain in Saudi Arabia because of the Iran conflict, an industry source told Reuters.

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TOKYO, March 22 — Oil prices rose early Monday after US President Donald Trump gave Iran a 48-hour ultimatum to re...

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BANK Negara deputy governor Aznan Abdul Aziz explains why the base medical and health insurance/takaful (MHIT) plan marks the first step in tackling Malaysia's healthcare challenges under the RESET initiatives.

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WASHINGTON, March 23 — As Washington and Beijing mull a new mechanism to adjust trade between the world's two...

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The electrical manufacturing services (EMS) market is expected to grow from US$647.2bil in 2025 to US$684.2bil this year, according to a report by Apex Securities.

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Four years ago, construction outfit Gagasan Nadi Cergas Bhd faced turbulent times.

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Once dominated by infrastructure and government-linked issuers, the sukuk market is now attracting a broader range of corporates.

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As the Middle East war drags on into its third week, warnings that the local economy must be prepared to face a storm are getting louder.

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JAKARTA: President Prabowo Subianto is pushing for the country to shift entirely to electric, solar-powered vehicles across personal, public and commercial transport, as part of a broader plan to revive domestic industry and cut reliance on imports.

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JAKARTA: The government has indicated that this year's fiscal deficit may temporarily exceed the general legal limit for the sake of maintaining economic growth if oil prices remain high as war rages on in the Middle East.

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WASHINGTON: The war in the Middle East has created major disruptions to global supplies of nitrogen-based crop nutrients. Now a potentially bigger threat is emerging in another important part of the fertiliser market.

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MILAN: Monte Paschi shareholder PLT Holding submitted a slate of candidates for the bank's board renewal, proposing outgoing chief executive officer (CEO) Luigi Lovaglio stays on in a move that is likely to set up a showdown over leadership weeks befor...

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WASHINGTON: Old West Investment Management went all in on energy stocks when oil was trading around US$60 a barrel, Nicolas Maduro was still president of Venezuela and the prospect of a Middle East conflict that would send the world into a crisis was s...

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SAN FRANCISCO: OpenAI plans to almost double its headcount by the end of 2026 as it seeks to fend off competition from companies such as Anthropic PBC and Alphabet Inc's Google, according to the Financial Times. 

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NEW YORK: Bitcoin briefly slid below US$70,000 last Friday as inflation fears tied to the Iran war rattled markets, overshadowing a fresh regulatory win for cryptocurrencies in the United States.

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