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.
The US biotech firm Gossamer Bio has filed for an initial public offering on the US Nasdaq with regulators to attract up to $264.5M.
The President Donald Trump called the Federal Reserve the "single problem" in the US economy, as key officials convened to negotiate an increasing rout in the stock markets caused by Trump's attacks on the country's Central Bank.
Risk adviser and insurance broker Marsh has launched its China desk in UAE's Dubai, seeking to tap growing commerce among the Middle East, Africa and China, the firm's Regional Chief Executive stated.
Germany's energy group Uniper has entered the exclusive talks with the central-EU energy group EPH, owned by the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, to sell its French business, not disclosing the financial details of a potential deal.
The finch affiliate of China's e-commerce giant Alibaba, Ant Financial, is in the advance talks to acquire the UK currency exchange company WorldFirst in a potential deal that could be valued at $632.5M, according to Sky News.
Euronext NV, the pan-European exchanges group, is moving on the Oslo Stock Exchange with a $711M proposal, after receiving its shareholders' approval.
The US private investment fund Castlelake is set to acquire 25 planes from Malaysia's budget airline AirAsia Group in a deal worth $768M, the company reported.
Japan is expected to withdraw from the IWC in a bid to continue commercial whaling in the next year's July, the Japanese government stated on Wednesday.
Policymakers of the Bank of Japan disagreed on the allowing bond yields to move more flexibly over the Bank's 0% target's feasibility, reflecting division on how to address increasing dangers of prolonged easy policy.
Banking institutions in China saw a 6.3% rise in total liabilities and assets to $27.71 trillion, according to the report by the CBIRC.
The government of Japan approved the policy package in order to prepare for foreign workers' acceptance under the new visa system next year.
Turkey is likely to increase the minimum wage by 26% in the year of 2019, for a $381 monthly minimum wage, the Labour Minister stated.
China's migrants reached 244.5M in the year of in 2017, 820K less than in the prior year, according to an official report.
Lottery sales in China grew 10.8% year-over-year to about $6.2B in the month of November, official data revealed on Tuesday.
Copyright industries contributed more than $881.8B in value to China's economy in 2017, accounting for 7.35% of the GDP, according to the report.
Huawei is an important network equipment supplier for Britain's telecom service provider BT, a spoke person of the British company says.
The Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi met with the Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss bilateral ties.