WASHINGTON — The annual increase in US consumer prices slowed to below 5% in April for the first time in two years, while a key inflation measure monitored by the Federal Reserve subsided, potentially providing cover for the central bank ...
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong newspaper scrapped on Thursday a satirical cartoon after a decades-long run following a series of complaints by authorities, the cartoonist said, in what was seen as the latest blow to media freedom in the ...
GENEVA — The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) reached a record 71.1 million worldwide last year due to conflicts such as the war in Ukraine and climate calamities like the monsoon floods in Pakistan, according to data published on ...
HONG KONG — For many of China’s manufacturers of baby and children’s products, painful reverberations from last year’s historic decline in the country’s population are already upon them. Domestic sales are shrinking, and the scramble is on to develop new ...
LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia — Myanmar’s ruling military has made no meaningful progress on implementing a peace plan agreed with ASEAN two years ago and the bloc must show unity in deciding how to address the escalating crisis, Indonesia’s president said ...
The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates to 4.5 per cent today, the highest since 2008, in the face of stubborn inflationary pressures and a stronger-than-expected economy. The expected quarter-point increase would follow similar moves by the ...
More than half of gig economy workers in the UK are earning less than the minimum wage, new research has found, with a quarter reporting that the nature of their work put their safety at risk. In a study led ...
New research has revealed the investment and growth plans of SMEs in the UK. Despite the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, SMEs plan to spend an average of £321,000 on growth strategies over the next year. One in eight SMEs plan to ...
The level of financial scams in the UK has now reached such a level that the Government is planning to extend the current ban on cold calling, in relation to pensions, to cover all financial products, as a further step ...
Only 6% of UK businesses have confidence in the UK Government to deliver economic growth in 2023. The survey, by accountancy network Moore UK, found that the majority of UK businesses do not have confidence in the Government to stimulate economic growth ...