Malaysia's economy rose 5.6% on an annual basis in the Q1, showing a better-than-expected pace of growth fueled by higher exports and private expenditure.
Xi Jinping, the President of China, said that he intended to put China-South Korea ties back onto track after relations were spoiled by the US placing anti-missile system.
On Friday, major Asian stocks traded mixed and the US Dollar failed to maintain yesterday's gains amid uncertanties coming from the United States.
A new almost completed 30-km bridge between China and Hong Kong is likely to cause more than only economic integration, Chinese officials revealed.
The People's Bank of China announced that it extended a $3.63B bilateral currency swap deal with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand for three more years.
A ferry between Russia and North Korea moored for the first time at the port of Vladivostok, in spite of US claims to curb relations with Pyongyang.
Canada threatens to review its plans to buy military products from Boeing in reaction to the US company's trade grievance against Bombardier.
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin revealed that Donald Trump approved new candidate to be a head of the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Toyota Motor Corp., Subaru Corp., Mazda Motor Corp. and BMW have agreed to pay $553m to settle some claims linked to the Takata airbag recall, the largest product recall in history.
Saudi Aramco plans to sign agreements with at least 10 companies including General Electric Co. and oil field-service businesses, when the President Donald Trump visits Saudi Arabia.
Poland's interior minister said on Thursday that accepting refugees under the EU relocation scheme would "certainly be much worse" than Brussels' penalties for not doing so.
The US-led coalition struck a convoy of military vehicles belonging to Shia militias loyal to the Syrian government near the border in Jordan on Thursday, according to the US officials.
The Federal Reserve needs to keep raising interest rates this year if economic conditions continue on their current pace, Loretta Mester, the president of the Fed of Cleveland, said today.
Turkey will not hesitate to carry out further operations like its Euphrates Shield campaign in northern Syria, the President Tayyip Erdogan reported on Thursday.
ECB policymakers are planning to gradually withdraw their stimulus measures if the economy keeps on improving, but these steps were not clear at the moment.
The US Labor Department reported that initial jobless claims fell to 232,000 during the week ended May 13, posting the third consecutive week of decrease.
The Czech government is set to raise the minimum wage by 11% next year as the country's economy showed solid growth with the lowest unemployment in the EU.
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister revealed that Trump's visit is likely to reinforce the cooperation in combating militancy and in bolstering commercial and trade agreements.
Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron spoke over the phone for the first time, discussing future contacts and cooperation in settling the Ukraine crisis.
Expectations for the US economy to grow 3% this year fell significantly as it showed weaker than expected pace of growth in the first quarter.
Novartis is planning to cut off or move nearly 500 production and development job positions in Switzerland during the upcoming 18 months and add about 350 its biotech business jobs.
On Thursday, Fox News Channel reported that its former CEO and a man who had impacted the American media and politics for decades Roger Ailes died at the age of 77.
The British PM Theresa May stated that Britain would face dire consequences in case of not fulfilling the Brexit deal conditions, adding that she considered the next five years as the most challenging in the UK lifetime.
The spokesman of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov made no comment on ex-FBI chief Robert Mueller appointment to lead the probe on Trump-Russia ties in the 2016 US Election, saying it is the US internal matter.