The countries are: China, Egypt, Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey, Myanmar, Thailand, the Netherlands and the UAE

Developing Asia consists of 46 economies in the Asia-Pacific and excludes Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Britain’s economy looks on course to shrink during the current quarter and risks falling into a recession, as a survey on Wednesday showed a slump in factory output and broader weakness in the face of higher interest rates.

German business activity contracted at the fastest pace for more than three years in August, a preliminary survey showed on Wednesday.

Oil prices dropped on Wednesday, as traders were cautious ahead of potentially gloomy manufacturing data and an annual meeting at Jackson Hole, where heavy-hitter central bankers including from the United States will talk interest rates.

South Africa and China on Wednesday signed deals covering emissions technology, electricity transmission and distribution, and nuclear power on the sidelines of the BRICS summit.

The world’s biggest digital companies will have nowhere to hide starting Friday, when the toughest EU rules on online content since social media first burst onto the scene enter into force.

The eurozone economy is contracting at its fastest rate in three years as a steep decline in manufacturing begins to spread to services, a key survey said Wednesday.

Xiaomi Corp has won the approval of China’s state planner to manufacture electric vehicles (EVs), said two people with knowledge of the matter, marking a major step towards the smartphone maker’s goal of producing cars by early next year.

Global gas prices could rise in the short term if strikes at Australia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants take place, but markets are well balanced now with inventory levels keeping high in North Asia and Europe, a Shell executive said on Wednesday.

A lack of rain has cut cane yields in India

FBCCI chief meets US embassy's commercial counselor

Pakistan’s rupee closed at a record low of 299 rupees against the dollar in the interbank market on Tuesday following an easing in import restrictions that has lifted demand for the dollar, central bank data showed.

The dollar eased from recent 10-weak peaks on Tuesday as global risk appetite, hurt by a jump in US government bond yields and a weakening Chinese economy, staged a rebound.

India is not considering imposing any restrictions on exports of non-basmati parboiled rice, Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra said on Tuesday.

Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday as investors remained downbeat on China’s economic malaise hobbling demand from the world’s top crude importer, limiting the impact of supply cuts.

A six-member BGMEA delegation is now visiting Iraq

59 trucks brought in around 1,800 tonnes of the bulb

Indian food secretary says

Funding risks and weaker profitability will likely test the sector's credit strength