Cambodia plans to attract more foreign tourists and investors in 2019, the Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen says.
Rwanda plans to double income from tourism in the next six years through sustainable wildlife conservation, the Rwanda Development Board says.
The US sanctions against Iran won't achieve the desired result, The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says.
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan invited the US President Donald Trump to visit Turkey the next year, the White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley says.
A privately-owned telecom solution provider Huawei plans to expand business operations related to the development of 5G network across the globe, the Huawei chairman Liang Hua says.
The ongoing partial government shutdown in the US won't end until a border wall is approved, the US President Donald Trump says.
Iran plans to offer 3M barrels of crude oil to the private sector for exports, the Iranian Petroleum Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh says.
Zambia received investments worth $3.9B in various sectors of the economy in 2018, the Zambia Development Agency reports.
On Wednesday, Kevin Hassett, the White House economic adviser, said that the US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's job is not at risk.
On Wednesday, Wall Street's funded watchdog penalised Morgan Stanley unit about $10 million for violations of anti-money laundering program.
Rusal, Russia's aluminium titan, announced on Wednesday its chairman of the board of directors Matthias Warnig had stepped down n the back of restructuring plan related to the US sanctions.
On Wednesday, a Mastercard report showed that the US sales surged as much as 5.1% to more than $850B this year due to the holiday shopping season, the best in the last six years.
The power grid operators of Lithuania and Poland agreed to construct the HVDC undersea power cable by 2025 amid a plan to build electricity grids connections of the Baltic states with the EU.
The US Federal Communications Commission fined Swarm Technologies $900K for launching four experimental communications satellites, which threatened operations of government satellites and critical commercial.
Alexander Novak, the Russian Energy Minister, stated he was expecting the oil prices, which dropped by over a third last month, to stabilise in the next year's first half.
On Wednesday, the Russian spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that the Kremlin had not ruled out the President Vladimir Putin attending the Davos forum scheduled for the next month.
A project launched by South and North Koreas on Wednesday to reconnect road and rail links between the two countries are facing construction delays due to the US sanctions put against North Korea over nuclear weapons.
On Wednesday, Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated the two leaders of Russia and Belarus were set to meet one again before the year-end after failing to reach an agreement on financial compensation for Minsk.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, his Belarusian counterpart, failed to reach an agreement on a potential financial compensation for Minsk, Kremlin's spokesman announced on Wednensday.
On Wednesday, China's state TV reported the country's court had sentenced the ex-general managed for Sinochem Group to twelve years in jail for graft.
Japan's Sun Corp is planning to sell 50% of its stake in Israel's digital intelligence firm Cellebrite in a potential deal valued at $400M, according to the Israeli financial newspaper.
On Wednesday, the US International Trade Commission stated it was set to review whether the ruling on the Qualcomm request for banning some iPhones imports into the US was not in public interest.
South Korea's December exports are seen to rise less than in November amid the trade dispute between the United States and China, Reuters' survey showed on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, the Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga vowed that the government would promote the rules that protect fair and free trade for the global economy.