Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly last month that his country aims to become carbon neutral by 2060.
Recent protests in Thailand will be a "double whammy" for growth in the country, which has already suffered a blow from the Covid-19 pandemic, analysts say.
The founding partner of Mobius Capital Partners said markets "hate" uncertainty, and how much markets fall would depend on how long the election dispute lasts.
Stocks across Asia-Pacific mostly declined on Friday morning, with sentiment dampened on the coronavirus front. Meanwhile, the U.S. dollar strengthened as uncertainty rose.
China's massive onshore bond market offers investors a level of returns that may be hard to find elsewhere in the current environment of low interest rates, said Neeraj Seth, BlackRock's head of Asian credit.
The Chinese yuan will continue to strengthen against the U.S. dollar, even as China's central bank has taken steps to curb its currency appreciation, analysts said.
Investors reacted to a speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping in Shenzhen on Wednesday, as the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone celebrated the 40th anniversary of its establishment.
Post-pandemic music and theater performances are likely to use a hybrid model, according to the chief executive of one of Singapore's largest arts centers.
Singapore's economy shrank by 7% in the third quarter compared with a year ago, slower than the revised 13.3% year-on-year decline in the second quarter, official estimates showed.
"The problems we've had here — the number of cases, the number of deaths, the number of hospitalizations — was not inevitable,” Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel told CNBC on Tuesday.
The global real estate space has largely held its own in the face of an unprecedented economic hit from the coronavirus pandemic, and that's been a boon for policymakers, says Jefferies' Sean Darby.
Video games are booming in China's smaller cities, with citizens there accounting for more than half of revenue nationally, according to a recent report by Niko Partners.
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