Global News WASHINGTON—Congress passed free-trade agreements Wednesday with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, ending negotiations so nettlesome the
Read MoreGlobal News It's impossible to know the winner of next year's presidential race, but there is already one clear loser: China. One Republican presi
Read MoreRegional News The global outlook has become increasingly uncertain, and the recovery is more sluggish than we envisaged just a few months ago as th
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. AS we enter into the last quarter of 2011, it becomes more obvious every day that the confidence of January has tu
Read MoreRegional News Myanmar's government released one of its most famous dissidents along with at least 80 other political prisoners Wednesday, but activ
Read MoreGlobal News The global reach of the economic turmoil in Europe and the United States was underlined Thursday by weaker-than-expected export data fr
Read MoreRegional News The world's biggest consumer of key commodities is on a diet. The latest trade data shows imports holding up in September; the volum
Read MoreRegional News HONG KONG -- The International Monetary Fund trimmed its economic growth forecasts for Asia on Thursday because of financial turbulen
Read MoreLackluster trade to trim GDP expansion this year The Philippines cut its growth and trade forecasts for this year and the next on uncertainty over
Read MoreDESPITE the availability of assistance programs and light payment or investment schemes, only two overseas Filipino worker (OFW) households out of 1
Read MoreRegional News BANGKOK—Thailand's auto exporters are being hit by supply-chain disruptions following the worst flooding the country has seen in near
Read MoreELECTRONICS exports could contract by 18% this year, an industry group yesterday said, given belt-tightening by firms wary of renewed global turmoil
Read MoreRegional News Burma's president is to grant amnesty to more than 6,300 prisoners, state-controlled media has announced. The announcement, on state
Read MoreRegional News JILIN CITY, China — Wang Jianping and his wife, Shue, are a relatively affluent Chinese couple, with an annual household income of $1
Read MoreRegional News Senior Official Pledges Easing of Internet, Media Curbs, Dialogue With Dissident Suu Kyi Will Be Rewarded BANGKOK—A senior U.S. offi
Read MoreGlobal News In a city routinely gridlocked over how to cut spending, no one seemed to notice in Washington this week when Hillary Clinton proposed
Read MoreThe Philippines, which is hard-pressed to corner more foreign direct investments, is set to get a $1-million grant from the Japanese government to i
Read MoreThe 2011 GDP growth forecast for the Philippine economy has turned gloomier and gloomier. First, the Asian Development Bank, then the World Bank, th
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Dutch financial giant ING Bank sees the amount of money sent home by Filipinos abroad climbing by six percent to a record lev
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The Board of Investments (BOI) expects to exceed all investment expectations and break all investment records this year as it
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