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Union drive at Amazon warehouse fails after bitter campaign

Apr 09, 2021 (AFP)

In a tally streamed live online, National Labor Relations Board officials recorded a "no" vote majority of 1,798 to 738, a stinging defeat in the push to create...

Biden aims $1.5 tn budget at health, education, social services

Apr 09, 2021 (AFP)

The discretionary spending request for fiscal year 2022 would allocate $769.4 billion to non-defense programs, surpassing the $753 billion apportioned for defen...

Asian markets mostly up after Wall St record

Apr 08, 2021 (AFP)

The broad gains came after yet another record for the S&P 500 on Wall Street, helped by a general mood of optimism that the world economy is on course for a str...

Asian markets mostly up as vaccine, data add to recovery hopes

Apr 07, 2021 (AFP)

President Joe Biden gave cause to cheer by saying all adults in the United States would be eligible for a vaccine by April 19, almost two weeks earlier than pre...

IMF renews message to China: boost consumption

Apr 07, 2021 (AFP)

That comment renews the International Monetary Fund's longstanding pre-pandemic message to Beijing to change its model away from one dominated by exports and ma...

Xi urges Europe to 'make positive efforts with China' in Merkel call

Apr 07, 2021 (AFP)

The call was Xi's first with a European leader since last month's tit-for-tat sanctions over allegations of human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region, which dr...

IMF lifts China growth forecast to 10-year high

Apr 06, 2021 (AFP)

The figure is 0.3 percentage points above the IMF's January prediction and would mark the country's strongest growth rate since 2011, after the world's second l...

Asian, European markets mostly up after Wall Street rally

Apr 06, 2021 (AFP)

The S&P 500 and Dow scaled new heights, while the Nasdaq also saw big gains, after data Friday showed far more US jobs than expected were created last month. An...

Asian markets mixed after recent rally but outlook rosy

Apr 06, 2021 (AFP)

The S&P 500 and Dow scaled new heights, while the Nasdaq also saw big gains, after data Friday showed far more US jobs than expected were created last month, re...

Logjam deepens at the world's ports as pandemic strikes shipping

Apr 04, 2021 (AFP)

As the huge containers were flung onto trucks with a thunderous clang, Shi Jiangang, a top official with Chinese shipping company Bondex Logistics, reflected on...

'Silent revolution': Myanmar workers strike to force junta's hand

Apr 04, 2021 (AFP)

Bank employees, doctors, engineers, customs officers, dockers, railway staff and textile workers have all downed tools as part of a civil disobedience movement....

Foreign firms face tough choices over Myanmar unrest

Apr 01, 2021 (AFP)

More than 520 people have died in daily demonstrations since the military overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, halting Myanmar's decade-old ...

China factory activity rises but analysts warn of 'fragile recovery'

Mar 31, 2021 (AFP)

The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), a key gauge of manufacturing activity, grew more than expected to 51.9 -- from 50.6 in February -- according to the Nation...

Reset to rivalry: China and the West drift further apart

Mar 31, 2021 (AFP)

The mood music ahead of the mid-March meeting in the Alaskan town of Anchorage between the two countries' top diplomats was upbeat, but their meeting quickly co...

Biden sets out 'once-in-a-generation' $2 tn infrastructure plan

Mar 31, 2021 (AFP)

Biden compared his "transformational" plan to the ambitious US space program of the 1960s, saying it would boost the livelihoods of poor and middle-class Americ...

IMF sees global economy improving despite uncertainties

Mar 30, 2021 (AFP)

"In January we projected global growth at 5.5 percent in 2021," said IMF Chief Kristalina Georgieva in an address ahead of the body's annual spring meeting coho...

Most markets rise in Asia on recovery optimism, worries remain

Mar 30, 2021 (AFP)

With a number of big data announcements coming this week, analysts said traders were largely biding their time awaiting the next catalyst to drive buying, thoug...

Benefits of 'drastic' climate action outweigh costs: economists

Mar 30, 2021 (AFP)

A major international survey found that nearly three-quarters of the economists responding believed that "immediate and drastic" action was needed to limit the ...

Counting begins in vote on first Amazon labor union

Mar 30, 2021 (AFP)

Legal wrangling over whether some ballots should be disqualified was expected to slow the process for days, with Amazon anticipated to seek to prevent unions fr...

Mummified parrots suggest ancient trade routes crossed South American desert

Mar 29, 2021 (UPI)

"Feathers are valued across the Americas and we see them in high-status burials," José M. Capriles , said in a press release. "We don't know how the feathers g...