SEOUL : South Korea's export growth slowed for a third straight month in October to the slowest in seven months, trade data showed on Friday, missing market expectations. Outbound shipments from Asia's fourth-largest economy rose 4.6 per cent from a year earlier to $57.52 billion, compared with gains of 7

HONG KONG : Hong Kong's economy grew 1.8 per cent in the third quarter from a year earlier, official advance estimates showed on Thursday, expanding for a seventh straight quarter.That was slower than the mean forecast of 3.1 per cent year-on-year growth by economists in a Reuters poll, a revised 3.2 per

TOKYO :Japan's factory output in September rose 1.4 per cent from the previous month, versus a median market forecast for a 1 per cent rise, government data showed on Thursday.Manufacturers surveyed by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry expect seasonally adjusted output to jump 8.3 per cent in Octobe