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Thailand risks losing 200,000 visitors after blasts

Thailand could lose up to 200,000 foreign visitors and $293 million in tourism revenue this year, the head of its tourism authority said on Monday, after a series of deadly blasts in tourist towns last week.
15 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt, IHG hit by malware

A data breach at 20 US hotels operated by HEI Hotels & Resorts for Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt and Intercontinental may have divulged payment card data from tens of thousands of food, drink and other transactions, HEI said on Sunday.
15 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Nissan revolution: could new petrol engine make diesel obsolete?

Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co has come up with a new type of gasoline engine it says may make some of today's advanced diesel engines obsolete.
15 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Brexit vote to have 'limited' economic impact on Germany: Bundesbank

Britain's vote to leave the European Union should have limited immediate economic impact on Germany, the country's central bank said on Monday, noting the mood among enterpreneurs remained positive.
15 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Can Singapore's labour crunch spark a robot revolution?

Sherine Toh says her best days at work are when none of the 600-or-so staff at Singapore's Tung Lok Restaurants quits, though such days are rare.
15 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Tesla removes 'autopilot' from China website after Beijing crash

Tesla removed the word "autopilot" and a Chinese term for "self-driving" from its China website after a driver in Beijing who crashed in "autopilot" mode complained that the car maker overplayed the function's capability and misled buyers.
15 August 2016, 18:00 PM

France reports 'alarming' output drop

French industrial production dropped for a second straight month in June, statistics bureau Insee said Wednesday, alarming analysts who had been looking for a modest increase.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

City job vacancies drop after Brexit vote: study

Vacancies in the City of London finance hub sank 12 percent in July from the previous month following the shock Brexit vote, a study by consultancy Morgan McKinley showed Wednesday.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Indian inflation seen picking up in July on higher food prices

Indian inflation is expected to have picked up to a near-two-year high in July as food prices relentlessly rose, according to economists in a Reuters poll, who also predicted factory output improved in June.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Disney invests $1b in Major League Baseball streaming business

Disney said Tuesday that it has invested $1 billion in the BAMTech video streaming service, Major League Baseball's direct-to-consumer broadcast company, as it positions itself in the fast-changing media industry.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Mahindra & Mahindra first quarter profit rises on higher SUV, truck sales

Mahindra & Mahindra on Wednesday reported a 12.35 percent rise in net profit for the fiscal first quarter, meeting expectations, helped by strong sales of its sport utility vehicles and trucks.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Record profits for Australia's Commonwealth Bank

Australia's biggest lender Common-wealth Bank sounded a cautious note about the country's economic outlook Wednesday even as it posted a record Aus$9.23 billion (US$7.08 billion) in annual profit.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Down but not out: fears ease over China's weaker yuan

A year ago on Thursday Chinese authorities stunned global markets by devaluing their yuan currency, raising fears the world's second-largest economy was worse off than thought -- but investors are now more sanguine about a weaker "redback".
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Indian cold pills pour over remote border to fuel Myanmar narcotics boom

Five years ago, when cold pills first trickled across Myanmar's untamed border with India, many local officials were baffled. Where was this medicine going, and why were smugglers so interested in it?
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Bank of England Brexit plan challenged by world awash with cheap money

The Bank of England's first rate cut since 2009 looks unlikely to be passed in full to borrowers, despite the BoE being ready to lend banks as much as 100 billion pounds ($130 billion) to ensure it happens.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Global security firm G4S gets grip on overhaul, shares soar

Britain's G4S posted strong results on Wednesday, sending its shares soaring on signs the world's largest security group had bounded back after previous scandals helped by more demand for its services and a shift in focus away from the UK.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Health on Wheels in action

In the summer of 2015, I was very lucky to witness Health on Wheels in action, as well as take part in some of the procedures.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Huawei plans big for handset sales

HUAWEI aims to be a vital player in the smartphone market in Bangladesh within a short time.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Global glut of oil products threatens crude recovery

Gasoline and diesel stockpiles have swollen to record highs across the globe, leaving refiners and traders few places to dump excess supplies and threatening large-scale production cuts that could derail an oil price recovery.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Kenya Airways: 'Pride of Africa' tries to stop a long fall

When Kenya Airways published the country's worst-ever corporate results last month, the scale of the loss revealed the effects of several disastrous decisions that the national carrier is struggling to reverse.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM