TAIPEI Taiwan’s Finance Ministry has called state-owned banks to suggest they buy an “appropriate” amount of stocks amid falls on the island’s stock market,…
Australia's unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped in July to a 12-year low, but the drop was largely due to people falling out of the labour force as coronavirus lockdowns limited their ability to look for work.
New Zealand has recorded two new cases of coronavirus, taking the total number of infections to seven in the latest outbreak, the government said on Wednesday.
WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand's city streets were largely deserted on Wednesday as the country returned to life in lockdown for the first time in six months in a bid to halt any spread of the infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus.
(Reuters) - Tropical storm Grace is forecast to become a hurricane on Wednesday, while heavy rainfall and flash flood threats continue in Jamaica, the.