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Companies that backed Trump for years are facing a reckoning after the attack on the Capitol

January 09, 2021

The bargain with the business world worked like this: They mostly tolerated President Donald Trump's sometimes outrageous behavior in exchange for business-friendly corporate tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks, deals they celebrated over Oval Office handshakes.

Travel companies that are thriving amid the pandemic

November 09, 2020

In January, the experiential travel platform Peek celebrated $1 billion in bookings since its founding in 2012. Then the novel coronavirus hit. Ruzwana Bashir, founder of the San Francisco-based start-up, watched business vanish overnight. "By April, we were at zero," she says. "With America in lockdown, people couldn't experience anything. Things looked dire."

Corporate net profit takes a pounding in first quarter

SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020

The first-quarter net profit of companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) plummetted 60.5 per cent year on year as energy, public utility, petroleum and chemical businesses were affected by the economic slowdown, oil oversupply and oil price war.

Abe asks companies to reduce workers going to offices by 70%

SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2020

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe instructed relevant ministries and agencies to ask all businesses in seven prefectures where a state of emergency has been declared, including Tokyo, to take measures to reduce the number of people working in offices by at least 70%. Abe issued the instruction at a meeting of the new coronavirus infection task force at the Prime Minister’s Office on Saturday.

German aid to companies speeds up with $11.6 billion in requests

THURSDAY, APRIL 02, 2020

Germany's efforts to limit the economic damage from a prolonged coronavirus shutdown are gathering steam, as aid applications pour in and officials seek a path to restart all-important auto production.

StanChart to support companies helping to tackle Covid-19 via $1-bn financing

MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2020

Standard Chartered announced today (March 30) that it will commit US$1 billion to fund companies that provide goods and services in the fight against Covid-19, and those planning the switch into making products that are in high demand in stemming the global pandemic.

World War II-style mobilization may carry risks for companies

THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2020

Automaker General Motors and Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, have offered to make hospital ventilators, and other manufacturers are being called upon by the Trump administration to quickly make 500 million N95 air-filtering respirator masks.

Companies have campaigned against sick pay for years

TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2020

Marty Flynn knows Orlando's restaurants. The son of a bartender is 29 and has already worked at six. Chili's. Bahama Breeze. Crave. Johnnie's Hideaway. The Meatball Stoppe.

Thailand praised for progress in fishery reform

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 07, 2020

Fifteen supermarkets and buyers in the US, UK and EU have sent a letter to Chalermchai Sreeon, Minister of Agricultural and Cooperatives, as well as the Royal Thai embassies abroad, praising Thailand for its progress in reforming the fishery industry and rectifying key pieces of legislation which have resulted in positive developments in its fishing practices.

Companies, including media, need sexual-harassment policies, experts tell seminar

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2019

Anti-sexual harassment advocates and legal experts have called on society and the media to stand up against sexual harassment by refusing to tolerate it, and to introduce a new code of conduct against harassment as well as against media malpractice within media organisations.

The giant Chinese companies shaping the world's industries

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2019

It was fear of being dominated by a Chinese behemoth that sparked an attempt by large French and German rail companies to join forces to create an European industrial champion.

Voice off

SUNDAY, JANUARY 06, 2019

Chinese companies are continuing to push the boundaries of how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in the consumer space.

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