European Union leaders are set to press ahead with measures to shield consumers from record-high energy prices that have curtailed industrial production and hiked consumer...

Major Chinese energy companies are in advanced talks with US exporters to secure long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies, as soaring gas prices and domestic...

Square Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said on Friday (Oct 15) the fintech firm is looking to build a bitcoin mining system based on custom...

El Salvador's unfolding experiment as a first-adopter of the crytocurrency bitcoin could be increasingly powered by new streams of renewable energy, the chief of the...

Global shortages in industrial components and raw materials have cramped Germany's export-driven economy, prompting the country's leading economic institutes to slash their forecast for growth...

Amazon.com Inc has been repeatedly accused of knocking off products it sells on its website and of exploiting its vast trove of internal data to...

Taiwan chip giant TSMC posted a 13.8 per cent jump in third quarter profit on Thursday (Oct 14) on the back of booming demand for...

The US government on Wednesday (Oct 13) unveiled plans to build up to seven major offshore wind farms along the country's coasts as part of...

British American Tobacco will cease all operations in military-ruled Myanmar and withdraw by the end of this year, the company said on Tuesday, the latest...

China's thermal coal prices surged to fresh record highs on Wednesday as recent floods in a key coal producing province worsened a supply crunch, just...

Britain's economy rebounded in August despite ongoing supply chain woes, as people socialised more due to the lifting of coronavirus curbs, data showed Wednesday.Gross domestic...

Australia's New South Wales state on Wednesday (Oct 13) said it would offer A$3 billion (US$2.2 billion) in incentives to attract hydrogen projects to the...

China's thermal coal prices surged to fresh record highs on Wednesday (Oct 13) as recent floods in key coal producing province Shanxi worsened a supply...

The IMF Executive Board reaffirmed on Monday its  "full confidence" in the Washington-based crisis lender's chief, Kristalina Georgieva, keeping her on as managing director after...

Investors are primed for another period of strong US profit growth as third-quarter reports from Corporate America flow in starting this week. But as business...

British American Tobacco will cease all operations in military-ruled Myanmar and withdraw by the end of this year, the company said on Tuesday, the latest...

Indian hospitality startup Zostel has asked the market regulator to reject an application from SoftBank Group-backed rival Oyo Hotels and Rooms to go public due...

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd and LG Electronics Inc said on Tuesday their latest quarterly results accounted for costs of about 1.1 trillion won (US$917.66...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Sunday she was confident the US Congress would approve legislation to implement the global corporate minimum tax agreed by...

As major companies look at drastic ways to cut carbon emissions from corporate travel, airlines are bracing for a major hit to business-class travel, a...

India's largest port operator Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone said on Monday that its terminals would no longer handle export and import of container...

Harbin has become one of the first cities in China to announce measures to support property developers and their projects, which have been shaken by...

Offshore bondholders of beleaguered developer China Evergrande Group were on Monday (Oct 11) bracing for news on more than US$148 million in looming bond coupon...

China Evergrande Group offshore bondholders are concerned that it is close to defaulting on debt payments and want more information and transparency from the cash-strapped...

Meal delivery services became essential during the pandemic, when millions of Americans were under lockdown and restaurants were shut to visitors.But these days the platforms...

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday termed China as a "great friend" to Bangladesh and emphasised the need to enhance bilateral relations between the two with...

Meal delivery services became essential during the COVID-19 pandemic, when millions of Americans were under lockdown and restaurants were shut to visitors.But these days the...

China will continue to curb monopolistic behaviors of internet platform companies and strengthen the protection of consumer privacy and data security, central bank governor Yi...

China said on Saturday it pressed the United States to eliminate tariffs in talks between the countries' top trade officials that Washington saw as a...

The United Kingdom and the six Gulf Cooperation Council states have begun preliminary talks on a free trade agreement, Bahrain said, as London seeks to...

China ordered miners in Inner Mongolia to ramp up coal production and oil prices jumped on Friday as a record surge in the cost of...

Singapore is extending its vaccinated travel lane scheme to eight more countries, allowing those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter Singapore without having...

A group of 136 countries on Friday (Oct 8) set a minimum global tax rate of 15 per cent for big companies and sought to...

Hong Kong startup Greater Bay Airlines said on Saturday it had received an air operator's certificate, a key step in the process toward launching commercial...

Tesla says it will relocate its headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Austin, Texas, though the electric car maker will keep expanding its manufacturing capacity...

British business leaders on Thursday criticised Prime Minister Boris Johnson for lacking a plan to deal with a labour shortage crisis, after he called for...

World food prices rose for a second consecutive month in September to reach a 10-year peak, driven by gains for cereals and vegetable oils, the...

Shares of Chinese Estates Holdings, a former major shareholder of embattled developer China Evergrande, jumped as much as 32per cent on Thursday after it announced...

Japan's coincident indicator index extended a decline in August from the previous month, the government said on Thursday, although it said economic conditions were improving.The...

British supermarket giant Tesco on Wednesday posted surging first-half profit on the back of elevated pandemic sales and its  "resilient" supply chain.Profit after tax jumped...

President Joe Biden delivered a stark warning of American decline Tuesday in a speech urging Congress to vote through his ambitious infrastructure and social spending...

The International Monetary Fund expects global economic growth in 2021 to fall slightly below its July forecast of 6 per cent, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva...

An error during routine maintenance on Facebook's network of data centres caused Monday's (Oct 4) collapse of its global system for more than six hours,...

US lawmakers pounded Facebook on Tuesday (Oct 5), accusing CEO Mark Zuckerberg of pushing for higher profits while being cavalier about user safety and they...

The time has come to invest in digitalisation, waste management and recycling to ensure business sustainability, said experts and entrepreneurs yesterday.The pandemic has accelerated the...

China risks slower growth if it does not do enough to spur market competition by allowing the private sector to play a bigger role in...

India is facing possible energy supply problems in the coming months due to coal shortages and a post-pandemic surge in demand, the power minister said...

China's banking regulator said on Tuesday that lenders including policy banks must ensure that the financing needs of the coal and power sectors are met...

Japan aims to expand renewable energy as much as possible and restart nuclear power plants whose safety has been confirmed, its new industry minister said...

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai will seek new talks with China over its failure to keep promises made in a  "Phase 1" trade deal struck...