China’s capital city of Beijing eased homebuying requirements for downpayment and mortgages, joining the country’s other mega cities to support the real estate sector, Bloomberg News reported. Beijing reduced downpayment requirements by 10 percentage points to a minimum of 20% for first-time buyers, the capital city said in a statement Wednesday. For second homes, the threshold is lowered to a minimum of 35% for urban areas and a minimum of 30% elsewhere. The city also lowered floor on mortgage rates.

Turkey’s central bank is set to stick with an interest-rate pause that’s likely to last through much of the year or even beyond, engineering a slowdown in the economy to lower one of the world’s highest levels of inflation, Bloomberg News reported. Rate hikes that began a year ago have taken until now to become a drag on the economy, in part because more restrictive financial conditions were out of sync with the generous fiscal measures such as wage hikes enacted by the government.

The Philippine central bank kept its policy rate unchanged as it continues efforts to tame inflation and support the country’s currency, the Wall Street Journal reported. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Gov. Eli Remolona said Thursday that the central bank maintained its benchmark overnight reverse repurchase rate at 6.50%. It also held its benchmark lending rate steady at 7.00%. The country’s consumer-price index for May rose 3.9% from a year earlier, edging higher from a 3.8% increase in April. That is near the upper end of the central bank’s inflation target range of 2%-4%.

An India government investigation found lapses in the corporate governance of Byju’s, but cleared the struggling online-education startup of financial fraud, Bloomberg News reported. The yearlong probe by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs found no evidence of wrongdoing such as siphoning of funds or manipulation of financial accounts. Still, it discovered governance shortcomings that contributed to the startup’s mounting losses, the people said, asking not to be named as the investigators’ report isn’t public yet.

A liquidation case against Chinese property developer Shimao Group has been adjourned to July 31 as it has again extended a deadline for creditors in relation to a debt restructuring plan, the company said in a filing on Wednesday, Reuters reported. The adjournment was made by a Hong Kong court following a consensual application for such a move by Shimao and the petitioner - state-owned lender China Construction Bank (Asia) - the filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange said.

China discovered that officials allowed cash raised from special bonds or funds from the central government budget to be invested in subpar or halted projects, raising questions about the effectiveness of current fiscal measures in bolstering economic recovery, Bloomberg News reported. Almost 28 billion yuan ($3.9 billion) of bond funds involving 522 projects were untapped or used for purposes other than what they were approved for as of the end of 2023, the National Audit Office said in a statement released Tuesday.

India’s economic growth is inching toward 8% on a sustained manner, but it is essential to keep inflation under check, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Tuesday, Bloomberg News reported. “India is at the threshold of a major structural shift in its growth trajectory,” Das said in his address to the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry. “We are moving toward annual growth rate of 8%,” he said. The economy grew at an average 8.3% in the past three years and in 2023-24 contributed 18.5% to global growth, Das added.

Higher interest rates have tightened financial conditions across Australia’s economy, but the pain is being felt differently between households and business, according to Chris Kent, assistant governor at the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Wall Street Journal reported. In a speech delivered to a banking conference in Melbourne, Kent added that while demand is rebalancing in the economy, the central bank still has a need to remain vigilant against the danger that inflation gathers renewed momentum over coming months.

The European Union marginally revised its proposed tariffs on electric vehicles imported from China after receiving more information from the affected companies, Bloomberg News reported. The new provisional rates — which will come on top of the existing 10% duty — are: Other EV producers in China that cooperated with the investigation but have not been sampled will be subject to a weighted average duty of 20.8%, while firms that didn’t cooperate will face an additional 37.6% levy. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, notified the companies earlier this month about the tariffs.

National carrier Vietnam Airlines JSC is facing the risk of losing liquidity as early as July if the refinancing loan repayment deadline for its government-backed loan is not extended, the government said on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The airline, which received 4 trillion dong ($157 million) in low-cost loans from commercial banks that were refinanced at a zero interest rate by the central bank in 2021, is grappling with financial difficulties due to the impact of the pandemic, the government said in a statement.