While financial markets have expressed concerns about China's rapid corporate foreign debt build-up, which was estimated at USD1 trillion, or 9.3% of GDP, in 2015, many Chinese companies have started repaying their foreign borrowing since the second half of last year.

Foreign direct investment in Malta reached €5.2 billion during the first six months of 2015 an increase of €3 billion over the corresponding months in 2014. Financial and insurance activities accounted for 98.1 per cent of FDI flows in Malta.

The Russian prohibition on the importation of seafood products from the United States, the EU, Canada and others has a lot of unknown consequences, and will have a significant impact on the U.S. seafood industry.

Sri Lanka has maintained its high ranking in human development. But the country's performance in terms of average annual human development index (HDI) growth rate during 1990-2014 was lower than many other South Asian countries. These findings are among the highlights of the Global Human Development Report (HDR) 2015 released by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) here on Thursday.

South Korea's terms of trade continued to improve from a year earlier in November, but largely because import prices dropped at a faster clip than export prices, central bank data showed Thursday.