Bangkok: The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), with support from the Dutch Entreprene ...

Bangkok: While much of the attention this year has been focused on protecting populations as well as the socio-economic impacts and recovery needed, high-level officials from across the A ...

Bangkok: As the Covid-19 pandemic progresses around the world, governments are relying on geospatial information, digital solutions and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven risk analytics ...

Bangkok: Recognising that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread socio-economic impacts and disruptions across Asia-Pacific, high-level officials called for a rethink on the future d ...

Jakarta: One of the biggest economies in South East Asia, Indonesia has fallen into a recession after 22 years, owing to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Even as Beijing continues to announce grandiose plans and engage in skirmishes and conflicts with several neighbouring countries, experts believe that the Xi Jinping-led Communist Party o ...

Brussels/Xinhua: The European Commission on Wednesday proposed borrowing 750 billion euros (826 billion US dollars) in its name from the financial market to help the world's largest t ...

Beijing: Amid financial meltdown globally due to COVID-19 outbreak,  China's central bank—People's Bank of China (PBoC)— recently introduced the trial of a homegr ...

Geneva : COVID-19 lockdown  and containment measures threaten to increase relative poverty levels among the world’s informal economy workers by as much as 56 percentage points ...