According to the Centre for Economics and Business Research, China's economy will become the largest one in the world by 2028, several years earlier than initially projected.
On Friday, the Tokyo Stock Exchange announced that it would remove small-cap companies from its Topix index.
On Friday, the Japanese Trade Ministry announced public procurement reforms after an outcry over COVID-19 relief spending.
On Friday, the Japanese government announced a plan to replace gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles by the mid-2030s.
On Friday, the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan stated that Turkey would like better relations with Israel.
On Friday, the Chinese government announced that it would conduct negotiations on an investment accord with the EU at its own speed.
On Friday, the Chinese Finance Ministry announced that it would extend tariff exceptions for imports of some US products for a year.
On Friday, the Japanese government outlined a green growth strategy that includes a plan to eliminate petrol-powered vehicles by the mid-2030s.
On Friday, the Ethiopian National Electoral Board has set the country's parliamentary election for June 5, 2021.
On Friday, the Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai called on Lebanon's politicians to form a new government.
The Chinese government revealed on Friday that it would extend current tariff extensions for the United States.
On Friday, the President of the United States Donald Trump requested to increase the coronavirus aid pay-outs to the citizens of the United States.
On Friday, the Tokyo Stock Exchange announced that it would remove about one percent of firms from the Topix index.
The Japanese government announced on Friday that it would eliminate gasoline powered vehicles by mid-2030s.
On Friday, the Chinese government stated that it would set the pace for negotiating a investment pact with the EU.
Nuro, the US robotics company, has received its first approval to commercially deploy the autonomous vehicles in California, granting the Silicon Valley company a permit to charge its clients for the self-driving delivery service.
The UK government is planning to impose more lockdowns across the country due to highly infectious virus that causes record number of cases.
Tokyo's December core consumer prices plunged at their fastest pace in over a decade, posing a risk of deflation as the COVID-19 pandemic hammers demand.
Britain signed a narrow Brexit trade accord with the EU on Thursday, seven days ahead of its withdrawal from one of the largest trading blocs in the world.
Amazon.com is set to face the US union push in the upcoming year, when workers at a warehouse make a decision whether to unionise, Reuters reported.
IBM Corp is set to pay $24.25M in settlement of the probes launched by the FCC over subsidies that have been awarded to connect libraries and schools to broadband.
China launched an antitrust probe into the tech giant Alibaba Group, sending the company's shares down nearly 9% on the news.
Desktop and laptop computers demand has hit record high this year since Apple's iPhone debut in 2007, with manufacturers struggling to fulfil their outstanding orders, according to hardware industry executives.
Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are requiring all UK passengers who travel to the US to show a negative test for COVID-19 valid during 72 hours of their departure.