Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday that a planned meeting between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this month could be postponed due to logistical challenges.

Oil climbed again in Asia on Tuesday (Mar 17) after prices retreated a day earlier, with investors remaining focused on the Strait of Hormuz.

hina will impose anti-dumping tariffs of up to 30.1% on halogenated butyl rubber imported from Canada and Japan, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said on Friday, in a final ruling for investigations launched in 2024.

The allocation for the new assistance rate under the Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (Risda) replanting programme in Sarawak has been increased to RM23,000 per hectare, up from the previous RM14,805.

U.S. President Donald Trump warned of a "very bad" future for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization if European countries did not join his war effort in Iran, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.   

Oil from the International Energy Agency’s emergency reserves will begin flowing to global markets soon, after member countries pledged to make available 411.9 million barrels, the agency said in a statement on Sunday.