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Feminist, fashionable and fighting for sustainability: India's Anita Dongre

Mar 02, 2020 (AFP)

"Sometimes I wish I could just give up design and focus on sustainability full-time," the Mumbai-based Dongre tells AFP during an interview at her factory outsi...

One worker at a time, virus-hit China's factories sputter back online

Mar 01, 2020 (AFP)

But China's coronavirus epidemic has changed all that. Only about one-third of the roughly 1,000-strong workforce at Xuda's factory in the eastern export hub of...

Virus hammers China's February economic activity: data

Feb 29, 2020 (AFP)

The announcement comes as the epidemic has rapidly spread to a growing number of countries, pushing stock markets to their lowest levels since the 2008 global f...

Labor unions call for US probe of Amazon tactics

Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)

In a petition filed Thursday with the Federal Trade Commission, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and other labor groups claiming to represent a total ...

Global economy wavers as world comes to standstill amid epidemic

Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)

That is putting the global economy at the greatest risk of recession since the 2008 financial crisis. "With the partial exception of the Black Death in 14th cen...

Virus slows China's major projects in Asia

Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)

The outbreak that emerged in China in late December and spread to dozens of countries has cut off the Chinese labour supplies and equipment imports needed to ke...

Foreign firms in China forecast revenue drop due to virus

Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)

Close to half of almost 580 firms surveyed by the German and European Union chambers of commerce this month expect a double-digit fall in revenue for the first ...

Standard Chartered's 2019 pre-tax profit rises to $4.2bn

Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)

The Asia-focused British bank said pre-tax profit surged eight percent in 2019 despite what the group's chief executive Bill Winters described as "an increasing...

Trump economic advisor sees no US recession ahead

Feb 25, 2020 (AFP)

In an interview broadcast on CNBC, Director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow replied "yes, we can," when asked if the United States could continue ...

China shutdowns to impact economy: White House economist

Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)

With the death toll worldwide reaching 2,600, the official cautioned that other illnesses such as influenza are responsible for far more fatalities annually tha...

Armani holds closed-door runway show as virus cases spike in Italy

Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)

Italy has confirmed 152 cases of the virus, including three deaths linked to it, and has imposed travel and movement restrictions for tens of thousands of resid...

Virus hits shipping, spreading global economic strain

Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)

As analysts pore over charts to gauge just how badly Chinese mega-factories have been hit, figures provided by cargo ship traffic paint a gloomy picture. The Ba...

UK digital bank serves clients shunned by big lenders

Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)

In early 2000, Estonia-born entrepreneur Norris Koppel arrived in Britain and spotted a major gap in UK banking for newly-arrived foreigners who had trouble ope...

Local authorities close Venice Carnival early on virus fears: report

Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)

"From this evening, we plan to stop carnival and all sporting activities until March 1," regional president Luca Zaia said in announcing a series of measures to...

Russia counts China trade losses from coronavirus

Feb 21, 2020 (AFP)

Exports to China fell by nearly 34 percent from January 1 to February 19, according to Russian customs service data sent to AFP. Trade in grain, minerals, anima...

Shopify joins nonprofit behind Facebook's Libra currency

Feb 21, 2020 (AFP)

Canada-based Shopify signed on as a member of the Libra Association after a string of companies dropped out in the face of criticism by regulators worried the b...

'Fiscal hawks' now endangered as US shrugs at debt

Feb 20, 2020 (AFP)

Eight years later, the clock has stopped under Republican President Donald Trump, and the "fiscal hawks" whose strident calls for action to contain the trillion...

Coronavirus slams Adidas, Puma sales in China

Feb 19, 2020 (AFP)

"Our business activity in Greater China has been around 85 percent below the prior year level since Chinese New Year on January 25," Adidas said in a statement....

IMF warns China virus hitting a fragile global economy

Feb 19, 2020 (AFP)

Beset by many other risks, including the paused but still-unresolved US-China trade war, the world is not in a good position to deal with a prolonged impact, sh...

Foreign firms struggle to resume operations in virus-hit China

Feb 18, 2020 (AFP)

With many pharmaceutical companies globally sourcing from China, pharmacies may also face a shortage of antibiotics and other drugs if the epidemic is not resol...