The modest bump in births in 2024 is a temporary rebound largely driven by unusually favourable social conditions. Read more at straitstimes.com.

China’s central bank kept a key policy rate steady while injecting liquidity into the financial market, signaling that it may hold benchmark rates unchanged for longer.

The People’s Bank of China’s decision to halt bond buying is exacerbating the rise in short-end rates and flattening the yield curve, spurring bets the central bank may resume government debt ...

Many Hong Kong public bodies have seen increasing interest in multicurrency bonds to attract more international investors, UBS says.

The Chinese government is trying to encourage people to spend more by ensuring that share prices will rise, ordering pensions and mutual funds to invest more in domestic stock markets ...