Environmentalists in Indonesia are calling for the reversal of a controversial law aimed at job creation because it is seen favouring business interests at the expense of the environment and labour. ( read original story ...)
Demonstrations sweep Indonesia over controversial labour law
Clashes with police and many arrested amid rising opposition to law that is supposed to boost investment. Medan, Indonesia – More than a thousand protesters took to the streets of Medan, in North ... ( read original story ...)
New Indonesia investment bill angers labour
Activists throw projectiles against police during clashes on the last day of a three-day nationwide strike against a controversial new law in Jakarta, Indonesia. ( read original story ...)
Chaos in Indonesia as tear gas used to disperse protests against government’s jobs laws
There were chaotic scenes in Indonesia's Jakarta as riot police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against the government's new jobs laws. ( read original story ...)
Reserve Bank of India Keeps Policy Rate Unchanged
India’s central bank kept its lending rate unchanged and said that the country’s economy could break out of contraction and turn positive in the fourth quarter. ( read original story ...)
China’s recovery isn’t as rosy as it appears — but there’s still ‘room for optimism’
Beijing wants to advertise the Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong type of recovery, but that's not most of China," China Beige Book's Leland Miller says. ( read original story ...)
Sen. Loeffler calls for probe into China’s use of US nonprofits to meddle in elections
Ga., wrote to top government officials on Thursday, calling for an investigation into the use of American nonprofits by China to interfere in U.S. elections -- reflecting growing concern that the ... ( read original story ...)
What China’s Three Red Lines Mean for Property Firms
The danger lurking in China’s debt-laden real estate sector was never so clear as in late September, when word of a possible cash crunch at China Evergrande Group, the world’s most indebted property ... ( read original story ...)
China joins global vaccine alliance backed by World Health Organization
The alliance is designed so that richer countries help finance access for poorer ones, but questions remain about how this will be done. ( read original story ...)
China Golden Week Holiday Pumps up Tourism, Boon to Economy
Some 637 million Chinese tourists took domestic trips during the eight-day Golden Week holiday, spending the equivalent of tens of billions of dollars at a time when China is seeking to boost consumer ... ( read original story ...)