China reshapes economic team to battle trade tensions, debt pileXi Jinping reshaped his core economic team on Monday, promoting two trusted, US-educated lieutenants to key positions at a time of escalating trade tensions with Washington and concerns over a growing...
US tariffs, China trade tensions overshadow G20 finance meetingWorries about the potential for a US-China trade war and frustration over US President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs threatened to dominate a gathering of finance leaders this week amid st...
Russia: Five economic challenges facing PutinAs he prepares for his fourth term, President Vladimir Putin is expected to finally make good on his repeated pledges to revive Russia's creaking economy. While the situation has stabilised since the...
Alibaba to invest extra $2 bn in Southeast Asian expansionAlibaba Group Holding Ltd said it will invest an extra $2 billion in Southeast Asian e-commerce firm Lazada Group and tapped a top executive to run the business, as it takes on rivals such as tech tit...
Robots break new ground in construction industryAs a teenager working for his dad's construction business, Noah Ready-Campbell dreamed that robots could take over the dirty, tedious parts of his job, such as digging and leveling soil for building p...
G20The G20 (or G-20 or Group of Twenty) is an international forum for the governments and central bank governors from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy...