HONG KONG: Hong Kong financial institutions and listed companies will have to disclose the financial impact of climate change on their businesses, as outlined in a major global standard, by 2025, the city’s main financial regulators said on Thursday (Dec 17). Investors in Hong Kong and around the ......
Bitcoin set a fresh all-time high on Thursday, after rising almost 6per cent to US$22,584 by 0806 GMT, just a day after smashing the US$20,000 milestone for the first time.
Weaving down a steep slope, snowboarder Zhang Xu skid gracefully to a halt in a shower of white powder -- one of a new generation of Chinese people learning winter sports in brand new indoor facilities.
Australians packed into shopping malls on Thursday (Dec 17) to stock up on supplies for the Christmas holiday season, spending money that might usually go towards overseas travel and cheering an annual rite that was threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kering, the French luxury goods group whose brands include Gucci and Saint Laurent, said on Thursday that it would co-operate fully on a tax probe into the company, while rejecting any charges of wrongdoing.
SINGAPORE: Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Corp said on Thursday (Dec 17) that it is building the first offshore wind turbine installation vessel in the US for American energy company Dominion Energy. This follows the announcement in October that Keppel had secured a contract worth about S$600m in ...
Technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has facial recognition technology which can specifically pick out members of China's Uighur minority, surveillance industry researcher IPVM said in a report.
Novartis said on Thursday it had entered into an agreement to acquire U.S.-based neuroscience company Cadent for up to US$770 million, gaining full rights to Cadent's neuroscience portfolio.
Twitter Inc is reversing changes made to its retweet function intended to curb the spread of misinformation during the U.S. presidential election, the company said.
Behind the corporate battle for French media company Lagardere, there's a political tug-of-war involving the country's richest man, a media magnate and President Emmanuel Macron.
