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With the Federal Reserve maintaining high-intensity rate hikes, the currencies of China, Japan, and South Korea, all major Asian economies, have been more or less affected to varying degrees, and are under increasing pressure of depreciation. The exchange rates of the Chinese renminbi (with the offshore exchange rate as a…

WASHINGTON: United States Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo will travel to Asia this week for a two-day meeting with finance ministers from the Asia-Pacific region and bilateral meetings in Thailand and Singapore, the US Treasury Department said on Tuesday.

Stocks are mostly higher in Asia, tracking the latest rally on Wall Street

Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn has called on countries in the Asia-Pacific region to prioritise the right of all people to food, nutrition, peace and equality.

It was also entered to a strategic collaboration agreement with Korean firm SK Siltron

The European Union finalised a deal with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to expand flights between the two trading blocs following negotiations that began six years ago.

COVID-19 vaccines and boosters are losing their importance for world travelers. There are now more countries and territories — 118, according to Kayak.com data — that welcome any U.S. traveler without restrictions. Of the 109 destinations that still require testing, quarantines, or both for unvaccinated travelers, 17 don’t allow U.S.…

The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) are all highly threatened species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has identified poaching, habitat loss, and human-elephant conflict as threats common to the species.

Experts say the authorities must tackle the highest gun ownership rate in south-east Asia, cheap drugs and deep-seated problems within the police

For the sake of the study, the research team ran a series of 4-D geodynamic modeling on a supercomputer to simulate how supercontinents form.

Asian stock markets have surged after Wall Street rebounded from a slump caused by worse-than-forecast inflation numbers