Eastern Europe is a new frontier for private medical care, and insurers and tech startups are racing to steal a march on their rivals by harnessing the region's health data.
Transport app FlixMobility reported on Thursday a 37per cent increase in passenger numbers last year, as Germany's best-funded tech startup claimed the mantle of the world's biggest provider of intercity bus services.
An unsexy corner of the investment world is getting a little racier. The infrastructure and real estate investment arm of Macquarie is in advanced talks to buy data-centre company AirTrunk for over A$3 billion (S$2.78 billion), Bloomberg reported last week. Growing data consumption is fuelling demand...
BEIJING: China will allow foreign companies to take part in oil and gas exploration and production in the country, in what officials hailed Thursday (Jan 9) as a "major reform" opening up the industry. The Ministry of Natural Resources said foreign firms registered in China with net assets of...
China's FAW Group aims to double its annual sales of Chairman Mao Zedong's carmaker of choice, Hongqi, or Red Flag, to 200,000 units this year and grow them further to 1 million cars in the next decade, its chairman Xu Liuping said.
India's weddings are famously lavish -- lasting days and with hundreds if not thousands of guests -- but this season many families are cutting costs even if it risks their social standing.
South Korea's Samsung Group, whose leader faces trials over a bribery scandal involving former president Park Geun-hye, has appointed external experts to a new oversight panel to stamp out criminal conduct, the chief of the committee said on Thursday.
Oil prices climbed on Thursday after a rocket attack on Baghdad triggered fresh concern over the potential for conflict in the Middle East, a day after markets were roiled by an Iranian missile strike on Iraqi bases hosting U.S. forces.
Chinese consumer inflation stabilised at an eight-year high in December, data showed Thursday, as the rise in the cost of pork slowed after authorities dipped into the nation's reserves to battle the impact of African swine fever.
Japan's justice minister launched a rare and forceful public takedown of auto executive-turned-fugitive Carlos Ghosn after he blasted the country's legal system as allowing him "zero chance" of a fair trial as he sought to justify his escape to Beirut.
