Manufacturing activity shrank in Japan and expanded at a slower pace in South Korea due partly to soft domestic demand and rising input cos...

The surveys show how Chinese firms are ramping up production despite weak domestic demand, which Beijing has failed to reverse with a rescu...

Factory activity in Japan fell to the lowest since June as new orders plunged rapidly in last seven months, as per the survey. The PMI rema...

The relatively upbeat service sector conditions contrast with the manufacturing industry's shrinking activity and subdued business sentimen...

Manufacturing activity also contracted in export-reliant economies, including Japan and South Korea, and in emerging nations, such as Vietn...

Soaring inflation has forced U.S. and European central banks to embark on interest rate hikes, stoking fears of a sharp downturn in global ...

Activity growth in China also slowed, the private sector Caixin PMI showed on Monday, despite some easing of the strict domestic COVID-19 c...

Manufacturing growth slowed last month in economies as diverse as France, Japan to Malaysia, business surveys showed on Wednesday, illustra...

Lockdowns in China have snarled regional and global logistics and supply chains, with both Japan and South Korea reporting sharp declines i...

The findings from the private-sector survey, which focuses more on small firms in coastal regions, stood in contrast with those in China's ...

China's factory activity expanded at the fastest pace this year in May on solid demand at home and overseas, though sharp rises in input pr...

Japan also saw factory activity slip back into contraction as a new state of emergency, rolled out in January, hit operating conditions, PM...

The U.S. Senate ended a push by Democrats to increase COVID-19 financial relief checks from $600 to $2,000, a change sought by President Do...

But a global resurgence in coronavirus infections has made the outlook highly uncertain, keeping governments and central banks under pressu...

The headline figure was pulled down by sharp declines in output, new orders and the backlog of work, which all contracted at the fastest pa...

The benchmark Nikkei average finished 1 per cent higher at 21,344.08 points.

Japan's Nikkei share average fell as investors awaited key global policy and data events this week, while Japan's industrial production dat...