Chinese President Xi Jinping has concluded a five-day tour of Europe, after visiting France, Serbia and Hungary, where he touted Beijing’s vision of a multipolar world and held talks on trade, investments and Russia’s war in Ukraine. In France, President Emmanuel Macron feted Xi with gifts of luxury bottles of…
Araku Valley, India – Gemmala Sita is proud of the coffee beans she grows on what is among the world’s largest organic, fair-trade plantations. Her Arabica beans end up as steaming cups of coffee in the chic cafes of Paris and Dubai, Stockholm and Rome. But the 29-year-old’s own life…
Singapore – For three decades, Singaporean corporate lawyer Gerald Yeo* chased the so-called Singapore Dream. He climbed the ranks to become general counsel, managing a team of lawyers on a six-figure monthly salary. Sometimes he would rack up 20 hours at work handling calls with clients and colleagues in Asia,…
Chinese President Xi Jinping is on his first trip to Europe in five years, which is likely to be dominated by Russia’s war in Ukraine as well as economic strains between Beijing and Brussels. The first stop will be France, with Xi due to hold talks in Paris on May…
Franchise operator cites ‘challenging economic conditions’ amid local reports linking closures to boycotts of Israel. KFC Malaysia has temporarily closed some outlets in the country amid calls to boycott the chain over Israel’s war in Gaza. KFC is among a number of Western brands in Malaysia, where more than 60…
Results highlight the dramatic decline of Gazprom since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Kremlin-owned gas giant Gazprom has said it plunged to a net loss of 629 billion roubles ($6.9bn) in 2023, its first annual loss in more than 20 years, amid dwindling gas trade with…
Paris-based organisation predicts global economy to expand by 3.1 percent this year and 3.2 percent in 2025. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has upgraded its outlook for the global economy on the back of stronger-than-expected growth in the United States and China. The global economy is forecast…
Tokyo, Japan – When Japanese book publisher Kadokawa announced last year it would publish a translation of Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, it ignited a culture-war skirmish of the kind rarely seen in Japan. Trans rights activists organised a protest in front of Kadokawa’s Tokyo…
Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance, was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to violating US money-laundering laws at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The sentence was imposed by United States District Judge Richard Jones in Seattle, who rejected prosecutors’ request that the 47-year-old Zhao serve a…
US tech giants, including Google, Meta and Amazon, face pushback from their workers for supporting Israel’s military. After Amazon and Google signed a $1.2bn contract to launch Project Nimbus, providing cloud technology to the Israeli government and the military, tech workers started to notice more Israeli use of artificial intelligence…
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