The Covid-19 pandemic has punctured the growth of smartphone sales in India. The world’s second-largest smartphone market is estimated to clock sales of 127 million units in 2020, as against an …
COVID-19 magnifies challenges to business in China: European business group
The COVID-19 epidemic has exacerbated already worrisome trends to doing business in China amid slowing revenue growth, regulatory obstacles and the clout of the state-owned sector, a European business …
Singapore Changi Airport’s New Liquor Retailer Takes Online Route To Market
With passengers thin on the ground, Lotte Duty Free is launching its liquor and tobacco concession through e-commerce first, not brick-and-mortar.
Birthright Excel launched first virtual business internship in Israel
Traditionally, Birthright Israel Excel is a 10-week summer internship in Israel open to Jewish North American top university students. This summer, it is being done via Zoom.
A governor, a pharmacist and a nun: How South Korea’s coronavirus stimulus money wound through a city
Choi Moon-soon fanned out his wad of coronavirus stimulus money for the cameras like a gambler flaunting hundred-dollar bills. He navigated the narrow aisles of a market in Gangwon province, walking …
NBP looks to raise capital in Bangladesh operations
The government is likely to allow National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) to increase its capital in Bangladesh operations by remitting $10.9 million with the conditional plan of partially closing its …
Army Tightens Grip on Pakistan as Imran Khan’s Popularity Wanes
The military’s heightened profile comes as Prime Minister Imran Khan sees his influence and popularity dwindle due to a slowing economy, high consumer prices and corruption investigations involving …
Bangladesh’s GDP to grow only 1.6pc
Bangladesh’s economic growth would weaken further to 1.6 percent in the current fiscal year, the World Bank said yesterday as it revised its prospects revealing a far deeper impact of the coronavirus …
IMF hails Hong Kong’s status as global financial hub
Hong Kong’s status as a global financial hub is important not only to China but the rest of the world, a senior IMF official said on Tuesday as the Chinese territory faced renewed pro-democracy unrest …
Anniversary Protests As Hong Kong Democracy Movement Faces Triple Threat
Several thousand demonstrators marched in Hong Kong on Tuesday evening — defying authorities a year after huge pro-democracy protests erupted — as the movement struggles in the face of arrests, …