American tyre manufacturer Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is facing accusations of unpaid wages, unlawful overtime and threats to foreign workers at its Malaysian factory, according to court documents and complaints filed by workers.

The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on most of the sectors of the economy. The real estate sector was not spared.

The government should work more for the development of the country’s young people and increase the allocation for them in the upcoming national budget, said economists, policymakers, civil society and NGO representatives.

Bitcoin dipped 5.16 per cent to $33,849.47 at 18:00 GMT on Saturday, losing $1,842.99 from its previous close.

Dubai’s property market is powering out of a six-year malaise as “lockdown dodgers” and wealthy international investors drive a buying frenzy that is breaking records and fuelling an economic recovery.

Britain’s retail sector will endure a “tsunami of closures” if the government does not extend a moratorium on aggressive debt enforcement, industry lobby group the British Retail Consortium (BRC), said on Sunday.

Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Steel company -- one of the world’s largest steel empires -- faces an uncertain future after announcing plans to sell three of its UK plants.

Britain is to build a new flagship to promote its business and trade interests around the world, the government said on Saturday, in a move it said would also boost the ailing shipbuilding industry.

An Egyptian court on Saturday postponed a hearing in a compensation case filed by the Suez Canal authority against the owners of a container ship that blocked the canal for six days in March, giving the sides more time to negotiate, legal sources said.

Two recent decisions by Canada’s telecom regulator are freezing out competition in the country’s highly concentrated industry, critics argue, making it even harder to bring down prices for mobile and internet service.

Quarantine-free travel bubbles were hailed as tourism’s “godsend” earlier this year, but cancellations and suspensions have deflated hopes they will herald a return to pre-pandemic normality.

India’s Mahindra & Mahindra expects it will take at least another two years for car sales to return to their pre-pandemic peaks, but a slow pace of vaccinations could hurt recovery prospects, its chief told Reuters in an interview.

Eleven US airlines issued $12.84 billion in cash refunds to customers in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic upended the travel industry, the head of industry trade group Airlines for America (A4A) said in a letter to lawmakers on Friday.

The US customs agency announced Friday it would block imports of products from China’s Dalian Ocean Fishing Co for alleged use of forced labor and abuse of workers on its tuna vessels.

India’s economic outlook has weakened again, albeit slightly, with worst-case scenario forecasts suggesting the toll from the coronavirus pandemic could be much deeper, stoking fears the job crisis may worsen over the coming year, a Reuters poll found.

Carmakers in the Indian automobile hub of Chennai will be allowed to keep operating, the state government said on Saturday, amid protests by workers who fear catching Covid-19 in one of the country’s hardest-hit states.

Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States, on Friday said it had resolved a temporary network disruption, just weeks after a ransomware attack crippled fuel delivery for several days in the southeast region.

Small, cottage and medium entrepreneurs across the country will get an opportunity to sell their produce through the online marketing platform of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC).

US consumer prices surged in April, with a measure of underlying inflation blowing past the Federal Reserve’s 2 per cent target and posting its largest annual gain since 1992, because of pent-up demand and supply constraints as the economy reopens.

President Joe Biden’s first budget proposal comes with a big price tag - at $6 trillion, roughly 50 per cent higher than pre-Covid-19 federal spending - but, at least for now, projects a relatively modest long-term lift to the economy, likely reflecting concerns about the aging US population.