The use of mitsu not only eased pandemic communications, it also reflected how tight societies in Asia were able to fight the coronavirus, says the Financial Times’ Leo Lewis.
Firms and teams have been tested by the work-from-home migration and more in a year disrupted by the coronavirus. Managers must work differently to make next year a better one, says Paul Heng.
Britain and Turkey are set to sign a free trade deal on Tuesday (Dec 27), the UK trade ministry said on Sunday, the first since Prime Minister Boris Johnson secured a new trade agreement with the European Union.
FRANKFURT: German luxury carmaker BMW is planning to step up its production of electric vehicles, Chief Executive Oliver Zipse told German daily Augsburger Allgemeine. "We are significantly increasing the number of electric vehicles. Between 2021 and 2023, we will build a quarter of a million more ...
German luxury carmaker BMW is planning to step up its production of electric vehicles, Chief Executive Oliver Zipse told German daily Augsburger Allgemeine.
DUBAI: Dubai, the business and financial hub of the United Arab Emirates, has approved a 57.1 billion dirham (US$15.55 billion) budget for 2021, when the economy is expected to recover from a contraction this year, its ruler said on Sunday (Dec 27). The statement did not give a comparison...
HANOI: Vietnam's economic growth slowed this year to its weakest in at least three decades, buffeted by the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters and a sluggish global economy, government data showed on Sunday (Dec 27). The economy expanded 2.91 per cent this year after having posted gross domestic ...
China's central bank urged Ant Group on Sunday to outline a concrete plan as soon as possible to meet regulatory demands and fully understand the seriousness of the "rectification" work it needs to perform.
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Although small in the face of South America's giants, Haiti is slowly developing its cocoa industry, earning better incomes for thousands of farmers and refuting the stereotype that culinary art is the preserve of wealthy countries. Haiti's annual production of 5,000 tonnes of ...
FREMANTLE: Even in the scorching Australian summer sun, long queues of customers snake around Fremantle harbour - a soothing sight for beleaguered local fishermen trying to replace lost business with China. Australia's rock lobster exports are worth half a billion US dollars a year - and in normal ...
