LONDON: Tens of millions of people are estimated to be trapped in modern slavery - more than ever before - as poverty, conflict...
LONDON: Tens of millions of people are estimated to be trapped in modern slavery - more than ever before - as poverty, conflict...
KUALA LUMPUR: Swathes of rainforest Indonesia plans to recover from oil Asian palm oil giants take action over green group's rainforest probe planters...
WASHINGTON: The world's most powerful policymakers are struggling to alleviate the pain of a slowing global economy with few levers left to pull...
NABIPUR, India/KULAI, Malaysia: When night falls in the Indian village of Nabipur, the backyard furnaces come to life, burning waste tyres from the...
Last week, President Donald Trump announced a “substantial phase one” trade deal with China via his Twitter account @realDonaldTrump. He highlighted that it...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson puts his last-minute Brexit deal to a vote in an extraordinary sitting of the British parliament on Saturday, a...
Big tech might face new rules in Europe if antitrust probes keep going over the same ground, the EU’s incoming digital affairs czar...
LA CAÑADA DE URDANETA, Venezuela: With the $2 he earns in wages each week working as a cargo driver for Venezuelan state oil...
Coca-Cola Co.’s international sales and low-sugar offerings like Coca-Cola Zero Sugar drove brisk revenue growth in the third quarter. Shares rose the most...
Margrethe Vestager’s iPhone has been nagging her to install Apple Pay. Now she’s checking if those prompts are a problem for other payment...
MEXICO CITY: In Mexico's burgeoning startup scene, publicity is the last thing many entrepreneurs want. Unlike plenty of their P.R.-hungry counterparts in Silicon...
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan's central bank has commissioned well-known folk performers to sing about inflation and interest rates in an ad campaign aimed at...
KIEV: During his time on the board of one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies, Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. Vice-President...
The phenomenon of the dollar’s strength against emerging-market currencies during U.S. stock market sell-offs -- the so-called Dollar Smile -- has diminished. A...
Indonesian President Joko Widodo is set to revamp his economic team in a new cabinet that may include key opposition figures and industrialists,...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s newly agreed deal to leave the European Union will be better for economic growth than no deal at all,...
LONDON: Global bottled water giants are ramping up trials of easily recyclable aluminium cans to replace plastic that pollutes the world's seas. Sound...
India, the world’s top palm oil consumer, is shunning purchases from Malaysia, the No 2. producer, after the southeast Asian nation’s prime minister...
