Colombo [Sri Lanka], January 1 (ANI): Sri Lanka's food prices hit record highs as inflation increased to 12.1 per cent in December last year, up 2.2 per cent from November in the same year.
Tokyo [Japan], December 29 (ANI/Xinhua): The Tokyo metropolitan government on Wednesday reported 76 new COVID-19 cases, with 398 new nationwide cases confirmed as of 6:30 p.m. local time (0930 GMT).
Tokyo [Japan], December 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Assets held by Japanese households reached a record at 1,999.8 trillion yen (17.62 trillion U.S. dollars) at the end of September, the highest since comparable data became available in 2005, Bank of Japan (BOJ) data showed Monday.
Cairo [Egypt], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): The revenue of Egypt's Suez Canal reached 6 billion US dollars in 2021, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Osama Rabie said in a statement on Sunday.
Seoul [South Korea], December 13 (ANI/Global Economic): It is concerned that the 'Omicron' variant can cause logistic disruptions during the peak season at the end of the year. As the Omicron variant has slowdown major ports and global supply again, shipping and air freight rates hit record
Seoul [South Korea], December 4 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea's daily COVID-19 cases hit a new record high on the back of the government's eased anti-virus measures in November, the health authorities said Saturday.
Vientiane [Laos], November 25 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of daily COVID-19 infections in Laos hit a new high of 1,504, surpassing the previous record of 1,401 cases last Thursday.
New York [US], November 12 (ANI): The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said the global food trade should hit an all-time record high in both volume and value terms.
Zagreb [Croatia], November 6 (ANI/Xinhua): New COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours in Croatia hit a new record high of 7,094 and resulted in 50 fatalities, which was also a new daily record since the start of the pandemic, Croatian COVID-19 crisis management team said in a statement on Satur
Washington [US], Nov. 4 (ANI/Xinhua): The U.S. trade deficit hit a record high of 80.9 billion U.S. dollars in September as American exports fell sharply, the U.S. Commerce Department reported on Thursday.
Vientiane [Laos], November 4 (ANI/Xinhua): Laos reported another record high of 1,170 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, surpassing the previous record of 1,062 cases registered on Wednesday, according to the Lao Ministry of Health.