The closure of a chicken factory that employs 730 people is going ahead, the Welsh government has said. In January poultry giant 2 Sisters announced plans to shut its premises at Llangefni, Anglesey. The Welsh government has now said the ...

SHANGHAI – Some Chinese companies are holding on to dollar revenues from exports, while others are turning to foreign exchange hedging in anticipation of a fall in the value of the yuan, according to executives, bankers and data analyzed by Reuters. Several bankers in China told ...

NEW YORK – Arm Ltd., the British chip designer owned by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp., is likely to aim to raise at least $8 billion from what is expected to be a blockbuster US stock market launch this year, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. Arm is expected to ...

PURWOREJO, Indonesia – Keen to store more irrigation water to shore up food security and protect itself from longer climate change-fueled droughts and extreme rainfall, Indonesia has embarked on a dam-building project that aims see 57 new dams in place by 2024. But for those in their path, ...

BEIJING – China is confident of achieving its 2023 growth target as consumption picks up steam, the vice head of the state planner said on Monday, after parliament set a modest goal of expanding the world’s No.2 economy by around 5% for this year. Domestic stock indexes opened subdued on Monday after outgoing Premier Li Keqiang did not set China a more ambitious growth target this year as ...

The correction in stock prices may be gathering steam, and the potential for a full blown liquidity crisis seems to be rising. The reason may be that several big players in commercial real estate have recently defaulted on billions of ...

Secularists cheer the decline of religion in Western societies, but that loss comes at a huge cost: the decline of civilization itself. Original Article: “Loss of Religious Belief Is a Greater Loss for a Civilized Society” This Audio Mises Wire is ...

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BEIJING — China set a modest target for economic growth this year of around 5% on Sunday as it kicked off the annual session of its National People’s Congress (NPC), which is poised to implement the biggest government shake-up in ...

DUBAI — Worried parents protested in Iran’s capital Tehran and other cities on Saturday over a wave of suspected poison attacks that have affected schoolgirls in dozens of schools, according to Iranian news agencies and social media videos. The so-far ...