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SEOUL, March 30 Asia Pulse - South Korea's industrial output surged at a double-digit rate in February from a year earlier, fueled by gains in autos and semiconductors, a government [...]

TOKYO, March 28 Asia Pulse - A whopping 124 stocks rose Tuesday to their highest levels since January 2011 as investors bet that the market would keep rallying . The [...]

TAIPEI, March 28 Asia Pulse - Consumer confidence in Taiwan rose in March for the third straight month, although consumers were pessimistic about domestic consumer prices over the next six [...]

TAIPEI, March 27 Asia Pulse - Taiwan's economy is forecast to grow 3 per cent in 2012 based on easing supply chain disruptions and tech product launches, financial services provider [...]

TOKYO, March 27 Asia Pulse - The industrial production index for February rose 1.3 per cent on the month, according to the median forecast of 29 private-sector analysts polled by [...]

TAIPEI, March 23 Asia Pulse - Taiwan's unemployment rate edged up 0.07 percentage points to 4.25 per cent in February from a month earlier due to seasonal factors, the Directorate-General [...]

NEW DELHI, March 22 Asia Pulse - The Indian government on Tuesday said it proposes to bring down expenditure on subsidies towards food, oil and fertilisers to 1.75 per cent [...]

BEIJING, March 21 Asia Pulse - China's gross domestic product is projected to rise about 7 per cent on average per year over the next five years, Xia Bin, a [...]

SEOUL, March 21 Asia Pulse - Growth in South Korea's labor productivity accelerated in the fourth quarter of 2011 from three months earlier, helped by solid export gains, a government [...]

NEW DELHI, March 20 Asia Pulse - The Indian government is expecting lower interest rates in the coming months as it looks at policy reversal by the Reserve Bank in [...]

SHANGHAI, March 16 Asia Pulse - Deustche Bank (DB) has increased its forecast for China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in 2012 to 8.6 per cent from the previous 8.3 [...]

SEOUL, March 14 Asia Pulse - South Korea's jobless rate jumped to the highest level in 11 months in February, indicating that the job market conditions remain cloudy despite the [...]

TAIPEI, March 13 Asia Pulse - Taiwan's Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) is mulling ways to raise the minimum monthly and hourly wage when it considers the issue in July [...]

BEIJING, March 9 Asia Pulse - The decrease of China's budget deficit for 2012 did not mean the country's active fiscal policy was weakening, said Dai Bohua, a spokesman for [...]

JAKARTA, March 9 Asia Pulse - The Indonesian rupiah won't immediately rise if the inflation rate rises because of the imminent fuel price hike, Bank Indonesia (the central bank/BI) Governor [...]

PERTH, March 9 Asia Pulse - Western Australia's unemployment rate has remained steady and is the lowest in the country, while there has been a drop in youth unemployment. The [...]

SYDNEY, March 8 Asia Pulse - Australia's unemployment rate rose to 5.2 per cent in February, official figures show. The January figure was unrevised 5.1 per cent. Total employment fell [...]

CANBERRA, March 8 Asia Pulse - The Australian government's leading employment index fell for a second month in a row in March. These declines followed rises for each of the [...]

BEIJING, March 7 Asia Pulse - China lowered its GDP growth target to 7.5 per cent this year after targeting 8 per cent for seven consecutive years, signaling that China [...]

BEIJING, March 6 Asia Pulse - The 7.5 per cent GDP growth target for 2012 was realistic and not low, said Zhang Ping, head of China's macroeconomic planner the National [...]

TAIPEI, March 6 Asia Pulse - Taiwan's consumer price index (CPI) stood at 106.92 in February, representing a growth of 0.25 per cent from the same month of last year, [...]

SYDNEY, March 5 Asia Pulse - An expected slowdown in Australia's economic growth will be a focus this week when the latest GDP figures come out on Wednesday. Australian Bureau [...]

SEOUL, March 5 Asia Pulse - South Korea's foreign exchange reserve soared to a fresh high in February as the strength of the euro and the British pound boosted the [...]

JAKARTA, March 5 Asia Pulse - Indonesian Industry Minister M.S. Hidayat said the growth of domestic non-oil/non-gas processing industry reached a six-year high in 2011. In 2011 alone, the non-oil/non-gas [...]

SYDNEY, March 2 Asia Pulse - Economists expect a rise in the Australian unemployment rate when official figures are published next week. An AAP survey of 17 economists showed a [...]

JAKARTA, March 2 Asia Pulse - Indonesia's exports shrank 9.28 per cent to US$15.49 billion in January from a month earlier, or the sharpest fall in five years, the Central [...]

SYDNEY, March 1 Asia Pulse - Capital expenditure fell in the last three months of 2011, but it is expected to make a comeback in 2012 as the mining boom [...]

HONG KONG, Feb 29 Asia Pulse - The number of millionaires in Hong Kong dropped last year due to unfavorable market conditions for investors, a report showed Wednesday. In 2011, [...]

SEOUL, Feb 29 Asia Pulse - South Korea's export growth is expected to fall to around 5 per cent in the first two months of this year mainly due to [...]

SEOUL, Feb 29 Asia Pulse - South Korea's industrial output shrank in January from a year earlier, the first on-year drop in 30 months, in the face of persistent global [...]

HONG KONG, Feb 28 Asia Pulse - The city of Shanghai recorded China's highest per-capita gross domestic product (GDP) last year, indicating a rising income level in the Chinese megapolis, [...]

TOKYO, Feb 27 Asia Pulse - The industrial production index for January likely grew 1.5 per cent on the month, according to the median forecast of private-sector economists polled by [...]

BEIJING, Feb 24 Asia Pulse - China's energy consumption for every 10 thousand yuan (US$1,588) of GDP fell by 2.01 per cent in 2011, the decrease rate narrowed 2 percentage [...]

TAIPEI, Feb 23 Asia Pulse - Taiwan's unemployment rate in January remained unchanged, the country's statistics bureau said Wednesday. The jobless rate stood at 4.18 per cent, the same as [...]

BEIJING, Feb 22 Asia Pulse - China expects to see an 8.5 per cent GDP growth in 2012, said Wang Yiming, deputy director of Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National [...]

NEW DELHI, Feb 21 Asia Pulse - Reflecting sharp drop in prices of essential food items, India's inflation based on Consumer Price Index for Rural Labourers (CPI-RL) fell to 4.92 [...]

TAIPEI, Feb 20 Asia Pulse - The Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) hopes to lower Taiwan's unemployment rate to below 4 per cent and raise the minimum hourly wage by [...]

JAKARTA, Feb 20 Asia Pulse - Indonesian Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo said the government may revise downward its tax receipt forecast in the draft revised state budget to be proposed [...]

SYDNEY, Feb 20 Asia Pulse - Australian retail spending rose in January, led by sales in clothing stores and by mail order telephone order providers.The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) Business Sales [...]

SYDNEY, Feb 16 Asia Pulse - Unemployment in Australia has fallen to its lowest level in six months but the outlook for the labour market remains bleak as many companies [...]

SYDNEY, Feb 16 Asia Pulse - Unemployment in Australia has fallen to its lowest level in six months but the outlook for the labour market remains bleak as many companies [...]

BEIJING, Feb 15 Asia Pulse - 33 out of the 40 monitored Chinese cities witnessed their commercial home sales drop year on year from February 6 to February 12, according [...]

BEIJING, Feb 15 Asia Pulse - The year-on-year rise of China's Consumer Price Index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, may fall back to less than 4 per cent and [...]

CANBERRA, Feb 15 Asia Pulse - The Australian government's leading employment index fell in February after rising for each of the previous five months.The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace [...]

SYDNEY, Feb 15 Asia Pulse - Australian consumer confidence has risen following two interest rate cuts in late 2011, but remains well below its level a year ago, according to [...]

NEW DELHI, Feb 15 Asia Pulse - India's economic growth is likely to go up to 7.4 per cent in 2012-13, from the estimated 6.9 per cent this fiscal, as [...]

SYDNEY, Feb 14 Asia Pulse - A softer Australian jobs market is expected to continue into early 2012 as firms remain wary of uncertain global economic conditions.And while the mining [...]

TOKYO, Feb 14 Asia Pulse - Japan's real gross domestic product will climb 1.9 per cent in the year to March 2013, according to a forecast released Monday by Nikkei [...]

SEOUL, Feb 6 Asia Pulse - Samsung and some major conglomerates in South Korea have seen the number of their subsidiaries decline over the past seven months amid escalating criticism [...]

BANGKOK, Feb 3 Asia Pulse - The Pheu Thai-led Yingluck administration scored higher on its wage rise policy, but took second place when compared to the previous government on cabinet [...]