Florin Vasvari of London Business School says a knowledge economy requires educated local talent, global expertise and supportive regulation, tax...
This year’s edition is expected to welcome more than 30,000 participants from over 120 countries, including 1,500 startups, 700 investors...
Behind nearly 90% of all plastic recycled in Viet Nam is someone like Ms Nguyen Thi Kenh or Ms Nguyen...In the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, nearly 10,000 women collect plastics for recycling, part of an army of informal waste workers
Viet Nam accounts for 1.8 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, with about 27% of that recycled, making the country a potential leader in tackling the problem
- A governor of the US Federal Reserve, Christopher Waller, said Thursday that the central bank should lower its key interest...
US Federal Reserve, Christopher Waller enthusiasm echoes President Donald Trump's eagerness to cut the rate that is central to US banking and borrowing
For months the Republican president has called for the cut repeatedly, despite resistance from current Fed chairman Jerome Powell
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Bank credit extended to the public and private sectors in the Kingdom continued its upward trend,...
The total bank credit also recorded a quarterly growth of 2.7% by the end of the second quarter of the current year
Every month, bank credit rose by 0.6% with an increase of USD 4.99 billion (SAR 18,713 million) compared with May 2025, when it stood at USD 844.68 billion (SAR 3,167,558 million)
The Trump administration said late last month that it will abolish a tax exemption on small packages entering the United...The move has sparked a flurry of announcements from postal services, including in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, India, Australia and Japan.
The United Nations' Universal Postal Union said he suspensions will remain in place until there is more clarity on how US authorities plan to implement the announced measures.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia’s non-oil exports rose by 17.8 percent in the second quarter of 2025, according to...The increase included a 46.2 percent rise in re-exports, while national non-oil exports excluding re-exports grew by 5.6 percent.
In Q2 2025, a 15.8 percent decline in oil exports dragged total merchandise exports down by 7.3 percent year-on-year.
- For years, Egyptian jasmine picker Wael al-Sayed has collected blossoms by night in the Nile Delta, supplying top global perfume...
As temperatures rise the flowers bloom less and daily harvest has dropped from six kilograms to just two or three in the past two years
With the Nile Delta also vulnerable to the rising Mediterranean water levels, which affect soil salinity, jasmine farmers are on the front line of a heating planet
"The goal is control and forcing people to leave. This is just the beginning -- it will expand across the...Abdelatif Mohammed Abu Aliya, a local farmer from the village near Ramallah, said he lost olive trees that were over 70 years old on about one hectare of land
"They completely uprooted and levelled them under false pretences," he said, explaining he and other residents had already begun replanting the pulled-up trees
Dubai, UAE – Creators HQ, the first headquarters for content creators in the UAE and the Middle East, has seen...Creators HQ also brings together content creators and industry leaders worldwide to amplify their impact, develop their work, and support the sustainability
In addition, it attracted 78 global companies in the content sector from 24 countries to relocate to the UAE, with the UK, Pakistan, the US, India, France, leading the list
- Mumbai, India -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's push to slash consumption taxes on everyday goods could deliver billions of...
The prospective measure has clouded the outlook for the world's fifth-largest economy, with Indian exporters warning of plunging orders and severe job losses.
His proposed cuts to the goods and services tax (GST) would make everything from small cars to air conditioners cheaper for consumers, economists say.
- Vienna, Austria - A research team from Graz University of Technology in Austria has succeeded in developing an innovative fastening...
The system enables the connection and disassembly of building components with ease, allowing the separation of long-term structural elements from shorter-lived components
The project won the gold medal in the scientific research competition under the sustainability category and is regarded as a pioneering step towards smart construction
