Beijing shift After a period of confusion and reshuffling among China’s leadership, Beijing has turned its attention to its relations with its friends, and more importantly its enemies. President Xi Jinping plans to reset China’s economy and win back friends, despite being amid a chaotic return to Covid lockdowns recently, which could affect his grand […]
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Tech yourself, before you wreck yourself It’s always good to be ahead of the curve when it comes to the latest technologies, especially knowing which are gaining the most purchase. So, what are the most important trends that businesses and investors should be prepared for? We round up a selection of likely tech developments this
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Ibrahim’s opening Malaysia’s relatively new Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, who was sworn in two months ago, aims to help lower food prices and kick-start the country’s pandemic-battered economy. Anwar recently said that bulk subsidies should be channelled to lower and middle income groups as well as small traders to help rejuvenate the south-east Asian country’s
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Asia’s powerhouse ready to return After the ups and downs of the past three years involving lockdowns, protests and market turmoil, Hong Kong is ready to make its comeback. The economy is primed, the city’s shops and hotels are open again to welcome tourists and business folk, and it’s all systems go for business and
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Offsetting expansion Amazon is proceeding with a huge, renewable energy programme – recently unveiling 71 new projects – totalling 2.7 GW of capacity. The US tech group, which is the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy, now has a 18.5-GW portfolio consisting of 379 renewable energy projects in 21 countries. The latest plans include
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Time of plenty The jobs market in advanced economies has been somewhat bountiful in recent years, with both a high employment rate and plenty of vacancies on offer across the board, but are things about to change? In the USA, UK and mainland Europe, unemployment rates remain low, but the latest data suggests the number
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A new beginning A very happy new year from Origin8, we wish everyone a prosperous 2023. And to that end, we try to identify some economic scenarios for the upcoming 12 months. 1. ESG and its influence ESG stands for: Environment, Social, and Governance. And this year we are likely to see an overall
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Business travellers face soaring bills Air travel – especially business class fares – could climb ever higher in 2023, according to a study. The report by American Express’s Global Business Travel Hub combines airline capacity, exchange rates, fuel surcharges, remaining global covid restrictions and inflation as indicators of how much ticket prices could increase on
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Brokers changing media after investigation Text apps like WhatsApp and Telegram have become an integral part of modern communications, offering a more instantaneous dynamic than email or even IM, but sometimes the lines between the professional and personal become blurred. So what will change now, after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently fined
Battling the blight of spoof reviews Tech giants that operate in India’s e-commerce world are inundated with fake reviews. But recently, the country’s regulators finally moved ahead with a new set of rules aiming to curb the nuisance. The Delhi government has released a framework to curb fake and misleading reviews on e-commerce platforms and
