Bloomberg Taiwan upgraded its economic growth forecast for this year, signaling confidence for 2018, as a strong exports outlook lifts momentum. The statistics bureau revised its estimate for 2017 gross domestic product to 2.11 percent, up from the previous projection of 2.05 percent in May and closer to the central bank forecast of 2.13 percent. The bureau also said it ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump has yet to decide the future US role in Afghanistan, even after spending hours in a retreat at Camp David where his defense and foreign policy team made the case to continue fighting a war Trump has long questioned. “This afternoon the president was briefed extensively by his national security team on a new strategy to ...

ISTANBUL / Reuters Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats were enemies of Turkey and called on Turks in Germany to vote against major parties in next month’s elections. The comments, some of Erdogan’s harshest yet against Merkel, drew a furious response from Merkel, her government and some Turkish organisations in Germany, illustrating the widening divide ...