Attacks targeted investment firms and centralised exchanges, and made use of phishing lures, code exploits, malware and social engineering

Analysts expect the BoK to increase interest rates a few times more this year as Lee’s comments herald additional tightening

The deal includes retail banking and credit card businesses, but excludes the bank’s institutional businesses in all four countries

Steel production curbs imposed to combat pollution dented demand and pulled prices of the key ingredient off a historical high

Lithium allows electricity to be stored and transported and is essential to battery production as carmakers turn to new energy vehicles

If tropical deforestation were a country it would be the third biggest source of CO2 emissions after China and US, ahead of the EU and India

The research found that India loses 259 billion hours annually while China loses 72 billion hours and Bangladesh 32 billion hours.

The rejection came as energy prices remain high and the EU is scrambling to diversify its fossil fuel supply away from Russia

The $508 million approved will cover the first quarter of 2022 and is almost entirely dedicated to funding government institutions

National officials vowed to keep the country's grain farmland above 1.75 billion mu (117 million hectares) by 2025, and said the planting acreage of grains should stay above 1.4 billion mu.

Hong Kong’s economic prosperity was tied to the Chinese mainland and the city would become a global hub for transactions in the yuan

Zuraida Kamaruddin, who oversees Malaysia's plantations, said a more assertive communications plan is needed to play up the positives