China June factory activity shrinks at slower pace, but job cuts mount - HSBC/Markit PMI

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s factory activity contracted for the fourth straight month in June but at a slower pace than in May, a private survey showed on Wednesday, offering signs that the economy may be slowly levelling out but is still in need of more support measures.

China chocolate market seen growing to $4.3 billion by 2019: Hershey

(Reuters) - Chocolate sales in China should grow to $4.3 billion by 2019, up nearly 60 percent from $2.7 billion in 2014 and driven by demand from the growing urban population, a senior Hershey officer forecast on Wednesday.

China parliament votes on allowing local governments to issue bonds

(Reuters) - The National People's Congress approved allowing some local governments to issue bonds directly, a reform that could help stabilize government financing by creating the country's first municipal bond market, parliament announced on Sunday.

Indian Economy to Expand by 5.8% in Fiscal 2014-15

The Indian economy, Asia's third-largest, remains on track to expand by about 5.8% in the financial year to 31, March 2015, the finance ministry's top official has said Finance Secretary Arvind Mayaram also said India's industrial production data suggested that corporate order-books were building up.

India's GDP Growth Could Accelerate to About 6% This Year: Economic Survey

India's economy could grow six percent this year, a key report on the state of Asia's third largest economy showed.

Bank of Japan holds fire on stimulus, says economy recovering

Tokyo (AFP) - The Bank of Japan on Friday held off expanding its stimulus programme and said the world's number three economy was recovering, despite fears a sales tax rise will dent growth.

India's new government must wrestle with weak output, inflation

(Reuters) - India's ailing economy showed little sign of improvement on Monday, trapped in a spell of weak growth and high inflation when the country is on the cusp of political change that is widely expected to script an economic revival.

With no real government, can Thailand escape recession?

(Reuters) - Some bold assumptions about a rapid end to a six-month political crisis are all that stand between Thailand and its first real recession since the global financial crisis.

Asian economic growth to languish this year, China the worry: Reuters poll

(Reuters) - Growth in emerging Asian countries will be lackluster this year and contribute less to the global economy, despite signs of recovery in the region's major trading partners in the West, Reuters polls showed on Friday.

China February inflation tame, room for policy easing

(Reuters) - China's consumer prices rose at their slowest rate in 13 months in February as pork prices fell by their most in over a year, a sign that slowing growth rather than rising prices poses a bigger risk to the world's second-biggest economy.

China signals focus on reforms and leaner, cleaner growth

(Reuters) - China sent its strongest signal yet that its days of chasing breakneck economic growth were over, promising to wage a "war" on pollution and reduce the pace of investment to a decade-low as it pursues more sustainable expansion.

China's GDP growth in 2013 set to be weakest since 1999

BEIJING: China's economy, the world's second largest, may have grown around 7.6 per cent in 2013, its weakest growth since 1999, with latest economic figures indicating sluggish economic activities in the last quarter.

Economy to recover slowly as RBI defends rupee: Reuters Poll

BANGALORE (Reuters) - A recovery in developed markets later this year will boost India's flagging economy, but growth will be lacklustre at best as the RBI refrains from cutting interest rates in order to keep a battered rupee currency from falling further.

China's growth to hit 8% in 2013

China's economy will pick up pace a little in 2013 and inflationary pressures will increase, the deputy governor of the country's central bank said Saturday.

China’s industrial profit rebounds in October

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Chinese industrial companies’ profits jumped in October — rising more than 20% from a year earlier and nudging into positive territory for the first 10 months of the year — bolstering a bullish view on the future of Chinese corporations and the broader economy.

China turns corner on economy as party chooses new leaders

(Reuters) - China announced on Saturday that it is effectively turning the corner on the economy and likely to meet its growth target for the year, more good news for Communist Party policy makers meeting in Beijing to anoint new leaders for the next decade.

India disappoints with 5.5 percent growth

NEW DELHI (AP) — India's economy grew a disappointing 5.5 percent in the last quarter ending June, marking a sharp slowdown from the 8 percent growth in the same period a year ago.

India PM sees better GDP growth amid rising downgrades

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expects a better performance from the economy this fiscal year even as private economists cut growth forecasts for Asia's third largest economy, citing a drought and policy gridlock.

Hong Kong's economy shrinks in 2nd quarter: official

Hong Kong's economy shrank 0.1 percent in the second quarter due to weak exports amid slowing growth in the global economy, the government said Friday.

Drought delivers fresh blow to reeling Indian economy

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A summer drought makes a bad situation worse for an Indian economy already crippled by a sharp slowdown in growth, persistent inflation and a politically hamstrung government.