Bloomberg Xi Jinping will visit Kazakhstan next week for a state visit, Interfax reported, in what would be the Chinese president’s first trip overseas in more than two and a half years. Xi accepted the Kazakh president’s invitation to visit the Central Asian nation on Sept. 14, the Russian news agency reported, citing Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Aibek Smadiyarov. ...

Bloomberg Typhoon Hinnamnor left at least two people dead and created flooding and power outages as it passed through South Korea, though the destruction appeared to be less than had been forecast. Hinnamnor hit near the southern city of Geoje at 4:50 a.m. local time on Tuesday and moved off the coast near Ulsan just a few hours later, the ...

  Bloomberg Australia’s central bank raised interest rates by a half-percentage point for a fourth consecutive meeting and signalled further hikes ahead in its drive to rein in inflation. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) took the cash rate to 2.35%, the highest level since 2015, in a widely expected announcement on Tuesday. The tightening is Australia’s quickest in a ...