Japan wants its workers to take more holidays and work fewer hours to cut down the number of people pushing themselves into an early grave.
The workers extracting mango pulp, freezing carrots and packing spring rolls in southern India are the foot soldiers in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's inflation war.
Tariffs will be reduced on June 1 on a number of imported consumer goods, including shoes and boots, cosmetics, and disposable paper diapers, the Ministry of Finance announced on Monday.
Every retailer in China wants a piece of the growing cross-border e-commerce pie. Department stores are no exception, and they see the sector as a promising avenue of transformation in the era of online shopping.
Despite changing demographics and shifting growth patterns, China's economic prospects in the next decade remain positive as the industries continue to climb up the value chain and open to the international market, said economists and experts at the Shanghai Forum, hosted by Fudan University, which ended on Monday.
The government should provide more support for Chinese enterprises that are going global, the top executive of a leading private conglomerate said on Monday.
The rural land issue in China rarely makes the headlines, but although it is largely out of sight, it is a bitterly contested area.
Online finance that offers innovative products and services is a crucial sector for enhancing cross-Straits financial cooperation, and mainland industry players could learn from their Taiwan counterparts in terms of making regulations to control risks.
Equity markets on the Chinese mainland have been among the best-performing in the world over the past year and indeed over longer time horizons. Yet, many foreign institutional investors have been underweight on China versus benchmark weightings in global equity indexes, such as those provided by MSCI Inc or FTSE/Xinhua.
As if recent central government initiatives such as the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank were not enough, the State Council has unveiled a 10-year plan aimed at propelling Chinese manufacturing toward world-class status: "Made In China 2025".
Indian builders struggling to sell homes amid mounting debt face a new hurdle: reluctant bankers.
The next president of the African Development Bank will take over an institution entering a much tougher economic environment than the one Donald Kaberuka inherited when he won the job a decade ago.
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