Safeguard Defenders, a China-focused human rights non-profit, said in a report that the arsenal of Chinese laws authorising exit bans had expanded to 14 from 10 between 2018 and 2022.

The investments have added costs. Starbucks said its operating profit margin declined by 6.8 percentage points year on year to 9.9 per cent in the quarter that ended in June, driven in part by labour ...

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US Republicans are seeking to defund the OECD as the Trump administration widens its assault on American participation in ...

Groups rethink how to keep employees safe after second killing of an executive in New York in less than a year ...

As a result, it said, the UK would “recognise the state of Palestine in September before [the UN General Assembly] unless the ...

The Trump administration is planning to curb the government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases by unwinding rules that control emissions from fossil fuel drilling, power plants and cars.

The US and China held “very constructive” talks in Sweden but any extension of their truce in the trade war would need Donald Trump’s approval, Treasury secretary Scott Bessent said in Sweden on ...

The US banking industry has now taken a Musk-like posture. JPMorgan plans to sell APIs that it previously provided for free, ...

US companies are taking advantage of blistering conditions in the debt market to slash their borrowing costs, underscoring how many investors are willing to back even risky deals as uncertainty over ...

In the 1940s, as war spread in Europe and beyond, an American physiologist realised that starvation would surely follow but ...

Executive, who managed the carmaker’s reworking of its alliance with Nissan, is an ally of previous CEO de Meo ...