Sources: CNN
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage2022-01-4
Japan's GDP contracts 4.8% in 2020, which is the first annual economic contraction since 2009 due to the impact of the pandemic. 2021-02-15
Indonesia's GDP contracts 2.07% in 2020, the first economic contraction since the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis in 1998. 2021-02-5
France's GDP contracts 8.3% in 2020, the country's worst economic performance since World War II. 2021-01-29
The economy officially enters a recession for the first time since 1991 after the Bureau of Statistics reports a 7% decline in GDP over the second quarter, the largest fall since records began in 1959. 2020-09-2
The Office for National Statistics reports the worst quarterly job losses in the United Kingdom since the financial crisis in 2009. 2020-08-11
Singapore enters technical recession for the first time in a decade after its economy contracts by 13.2% in the second quarter, which translates to a record 42.9% plunge in its annualised GDP. 2020-08-11
The Philippine economy falls into recession for the first time in 29 years after the economy shrank by 16.5% in the April to June quarter from the same period last year, which is the biggest slump in the government's quarterly GDP data dating back to 1981. 2020-08-6
The United Kingdom's largest retailer Tesco say they will be restricting the sale of essential food and household items in response to fears of mass panic buying. 2020-03-9
Global stock markets have lost US$6 trillion in value over the last six days. 2020-02-28