With Jules Verne reporting a sharp rise in Sri Lanka bookings, our writer gives a taste of what to expect on the operator’s ...

On a research trip to Taiwan, writer Kat Chen studies late Taiwanese memoirist Sanmao and gains a new understanding of her mother.

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Tea is one of the world's most consumed beverages. It is thought to originate from China where tea has been drunk for thousands ... made the Portuguese and the Dutch decide to establish large-scale ...

PT Bakrie Sumatera Plantations Tbk is an Indonesian integrated agribusiness company that operates in oil palm and rubber plantations. It produces palm oil and its derivatives, and processes natural ...

Emma Reynolds, who formerly served as the treasurer for the APPG on China, has been appointed as the Treasury’s new City minister. Until last year’s election, she served as managing director ...

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI -- China on Friday announced that its economic growth rate for 2024 was in line with the target set by a government beset by the threat of fresh U.S. tariffs, an enduring ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world's second most populous nation ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. China’s population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to ...

Then he and his family started looking at business opportunities in Sri Lanka in the 1980s and bought the first tea company in 1996 after the plantations privatization programme came into effect in ...

In a news release on Friday morning, China's National Bureau of Statistics reported its economy grew 5% in 2024 from a year ago, meeting its official target. Analysts polled by Reuters had ...