BUENOS AIRES: Consumer price increases in Argentina slowed for a third consecutive month in March to 11 percent, data showed, but annual inflation still remains sky-high at more than 287 percent.

TAIPEI: Under mulberry trees at a bee farm in Taipei’s suburbs, students watched intently as instructor Tsai Ming-hsien wafted smoke over a hive box, explaining to aspiring apiarists how to keep the insects happy in an urban setting.

ACCRA: The International Monetary Fund said it had validated a fresh tranche of aid of $360 million for Ghana as the country seeks to exit an economic crisis.

OSAKA: One of the largest wooden structures ever built is taking shape in Osaka, but hopes that Expo 2025 will unite the world are being dogged by cost blowouts and a lack of public enthusiasm. 

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced that it will be closing all branches starting Tuesday April 9, 2024, on the occasion of the Eid Al Fitr holiday. 

KUWAIT: Weyay Bank, the first digital bank in Kuwait, announces the Eidiya feature for both Weyay and Jeel cardholders just in time for Eid.

BELGRADE: Hit with soaring tuition fees, crumbling facilities and dreadful food, university students across Serbia are taking to social media and relying on a black market meal trade to fight back against conditions some have compared to a “horror movie”. 

BERLIN: Two German construction companies are taking part in rebuilding Russian-occupied Mariupol, the Ukrainian city that fell to Moscow’s invading forces two years ago, a German press investigation claimed. 

BEIJING: The United States “will not accept” a situation where underpriced Chinese goods flood the global market, battering industries elsewhere, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday as she wrapped up high-level talks in China.