South Korea's unemployment rate fell to an eight month low in April while the number of people employed rose at the sharpest pace in nearly seven years as the economic recovery continues.
SEOUL: Samsung BioLogics on Wednesday (May 12) said a report it was in talks with Pfizer Inc to begin production of the US drugmaker's COVID-19 vaccine in South Korea as early as in August was "not factual". The Korea Economic Daily reported earlier that the biotech arm of Samsung...
Muslims are observing Ramadan under COVID-19 conditions for the second year in a row. What strategies are businesses in Singapore undertaking to make the most of the Ramadan and the Hari Raya season amid tighter COVID-19 measures? Millet Enriquez takes a closer look.
COVID-19 has shown that rich nations need developing economies to tackle global recovery and a looming climate change catastrophe, says a Havard University economist.
It turns out that Chinese projects overseas are giving emerging economies what they want, says a researcher.
DESPITE being "relatively confident" of exiting coal-financing within the next two decades, UOB has refrained from making a public position to focus on helping its clients make the transition, said Eric Lim, the bank's newly-appointed sustainability chief.
A senior Republican U.S. senator on Tuesday asked the chief executives of Toshiba America Electronic Components, Seagate Technology, and Western Digital Corp if the companies are improperly supplying Huawei with foreign-produced hard disk drives.
Oil prices rose on Tuesday, as lingering fears of gasoline shortages due to the outage at the largest U.S. fuel pipeline system after a cyber attack brought futures back from an early drop of more than 1per cent.
The small US manufacturers that rushed to produce face masks over the past year are now stuck with hundreds of millions of unsold face coverings because China is flooding the market with below-cost masks, and most may not survive the end of the pandemic.
A pandemic-driven boom in home appliance sales will last longer than previously anticipated and extend into the second half of the year, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's head of the business said.
