HELSINKI, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Swedish central bank reduced its policy rate by 0.5 percentage points to 2.75 percent on Thursday, marking the fourth cut this year. The new rate will be effective on ...

Getting the China-U.S. relationship right is not optional, but something the two sides must do and must do well. For China and the United States, turning their back on each other is not an option. It ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted 135 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea, at 16:42:04 GMT on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a ...

Inflation, measured by the consumer price index (CPI), rose to 10.87 percent in October this year from 9.92 percent recorded in the preceding month in Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics ...

GABORONE, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Botswana's economy is technically in recession, as the southern African country's diamond sector is faltering on the global market, an official said on Thursday.

DHAKA, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for Bangladesh increased by 6.0 points in October from the previous month to revert to an expansion at 55.7, after recording three months ...

URUMQI, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- A vast cotton field in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has broken the country's large-scale mechanical harvest cotton yield record. The new record of ...

BERLIN, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- German reinsurer Munich Re reported Thursday that natural catastrophes drove its third-quarter losses to 1.6 billion euros (1.7 billion U.S. dollars), more than double the ...

BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese School of Classical Studies at Athens, the first research institute of classical civilizations to be set up in Greece by an Asian country, was established on ...