Ratings agency S&P Global downgraded Greenland to "selective default" on Wednesday after the state-backed property developer extended the maturity of $488 million in bonds

Colombo has called in financial advisers Lazard as it prepares to renegotiate its complex web of creditors, including bilateral loans from Japan, India and China

The Chinese sales contributed to a drop in overall foreign holdings of Treasuries in April that helped propel yields higher

There's speculation the prospect of significant US interest rate rises and the yen’s slump may force the Bank of Japan's hand on policy tightening

Observers say speculators betting on a Bank of Japan capitulation amid tightening at other global central banks have been attacking the bonds

The calls come as global fixed-income traders sold about $35 billion worth of yuan-denominated bonds in the first four months of this year

New construction starts measured by floor area plunged 30.6% in January-May from a year earlier, after a 26.3% fall in January-April

Overseas investors offloaded a combined net total of $145 million in South Korean, Thai, Indian, Indonesian and Malaysian bonds last month, data showed

The Bank of Japan ramped up bond buying on Tuesday in a bid to keep the yield on 10-year government bonds at a 0.25% cap, amid renewed pressure from rising global interest rates

The China Securities Regulatory Commission criticised Everbright Securities, CITIC Securities, Haitong Securities and China International Capital Corporation

AIIB, a multilateral development bank headquartered in Beijing, issued 1.5 billion yuan ($224 million) of three-year bonds with a coupon rate of 2.4%

China is the continent's biggest bilateral creditor but most debt is due to private Western holders of African debt, the report says