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
Hugely popular game faces regulatory blitzkrieg Earlier this year, Microsoft surprised the gaming world by saying it was to buy Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard for USD $69bn. If it goes through, it would be Microsoft’s biggest acquisition and one of the largest deals ever made. The game is so popular it reaches into homes,
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Climate for change COP27 recently wrapped up, with the annual UN climate change conference seeing the US sponsoring a refined version of a voluntary carbon trading scheme – or carbon markets. Essentially, carbon markets are trading platforms in which carbon credits are sold and bought. One tradable carbon credit is the equivalent of one tonne
Output in world’s workshop plummets Factories across East Asia were left facing uncertainty after manufacturing output slumped in the region, exacerbated by unrest in China and slowing global demand. The trends highlight Asia’s gloomy economic outlook for 2023, as the lockdowns, labour disputes and civil protests rock international manufactured goods supply and sharpen fears of
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