The second-quarter economic growth of 4.3 per cent was its slowest in more than three years. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Leaders called for faster fiscal spending, timely monetary adjustments and stronger support for investment, jobs and the property market as second-quarter momentum weakened

China's top leaders signaled little appetite for major stimulus in the second half of the year, with the world's second-largest economy still on track to meet a reduced annual…