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Safeguarding the Dutch economy and cyberspace is a priority for the Netherlands, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said in China on Tuesday as Western governments adopt an increasingly defensive stance towards Beijing.

Britain will relax immigration rules for fishing industry jobs to address a shortage of workers in the sector, the government said on Tuesday, making it cheaper and easier for overseas applicants to get a visa.

Pay settlements by British employers held at 6% in the quarter to April, matching the record increases seen in the three rolling quarters before, but were well below double-digit inflation, data from human resources company XpertHR showed on Wednesday.

Business sentiment at big Japanese manufacturers turned positive for the first time this year and service-sector morale hit a five-month high, the Reuters Tankan poll showed, as the economy continued to improve from a COVID-led recession.

The Indian central bank's decision to withdraw its highest denomination currency note from circulation is likely to improve banking system liquidity, bringing down recently elevated short term rates, analysts and bankers said.

Investors often get seduced by the hope that an autocrat will be pro-business. But Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping show that those hopes don’t last. The longer authoritarian leaders stay in power, the greater the risk they will make decisions that damage their economies.

Ghana's central bank maintained its main interest rate at 29.5% on Monday, saying tight monetary policy and relative exchange rate stability were helping inflation fall.

Permission is being sought by Tirlan Limited for a solar farm development on a c.13 hectare site at Ballyconra, Ballyragget, Kilkenny. Solar panels on ground-mo...

Japan core machinery orders fell in March for a second straight month, indicating firms' cautious about capital spending amid worries about the global economic slowdown.

At the just-concluded conclave of the Group of Seven in Hiroshima, the world’s wealthiest democracies said they want to de-risk, not decouple, from China. Yet Beijing sees them hobbling its strategic industries and ramping up their defence budgets.