Month: May 2021

[ad_1] Frank Phillips, owner of a handful of coffee franchises based in Paulding, Georgia, says he received 200 job applications when he opened a new location. For its most recent opening in March, it had 35. One of the factors to blame is the unemployment benefits that laid-off workers have been receiving during the pandemic, […]

[ad_1] China will allow couples to have three children, ignoring calls to completely abandon their historic family policies in the face of an approaching demographic crisis after Beijing reported that the population grew at its slowest pace in decades. Xinhua, the state-run Chinese media agency, said the Communist Party’s politburo, made up of its 25 […]

[ad_1] The brighter prospects for the world economy will give governments room to move from general emergency support to more specific measures, with a focus on investment, the OECD has said. The Paris-based organization said world production would increase by 5.8% this year, a significant improvement over the 4.2% forecast made in December. Growth of […]

[ad_1] Hong Kong has exempted senior financial executives and executives from some listed companies from its harsh border quarantine rules, prompting the call for business groups to extend the measures to other sectors. Banks, insurers and asset managers licensed by Hong Kong financial regulators can request visits from two senior employees and two to return […]

[ad_1] The EU legislator who will lead the EU’s flagship technology regulation through the European parliament has said it should focus on the five largest technology companies in the US. Andreas Schwab, a German MEP and longtime Google critic, spoke after France and Germany called for the EU to be tougher with Big Tech. He […]

[ad_1] Some of the world’s largest bicycle manufacturers are considering a shake-up of their supply chains due to delays in parts delivery, described by several manufacturers as the longest in recent decades. The global shortage of bicycles, which dates back to last year, has been exacerbated by supply problems that have highlighted the dependence on […]

[ad_1] The world’s largest food company, Nestlé, has acknowledged that more than 60 percent of its conventional food and beverage products do not meet a “recognized definition of health” and that “some of our categories and products will never be” healthy. ” no matter how much we renew ”. A presentation distributed among top executives […]

[ad_1] The resurgent Spanish center-right opposition leader has said he wants to form a “national salvation government” to carry out far-reaching reforms, including tax cuts in the three months following the inauguration of the charge. Pablo Casado, whose People’s Party (PP) is very much in view of opinion polls, told the Financial Times that if […]

[ad_1] At the start of the year, the German government quietly launched a novel system of carbon pricing that could revolutionise who pays for the cost of polluting in Europe. Since January, the EU’s largest economy has introduced a de facto tax of €25 per tonne of carbon on petrol, diesel, heating oil and gas […]

[ad_1] When Joe Biden, president of the United States, ordered last week American intelligence to intensify efforts to determine the origins of Covid-19, it gave new life to the theory that the virus may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Biden said U.S. intelligence had “concentrated around two scenarios”: that the virus had […]