Asia’s reliance on trade, tourism weighs on COVID-19 recovery: IMF
BANGKOK -- Asian economies could fare better than those of their key trading partners in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Year: 2020
The cheapest ways to homeschool your children during lockdown
Whether or not it makes more sense to pay for childcare or take a salary cut by stopping work will...
Japan Airlines falls into operating loss of $186m
TOKYO -- Japan Airlines expects to book an operating loss of some 20 billion yen ($186 million) for the three...
Philippines cuts key rate in off-cycle move as recession looms
MANILA -- The Philippine central bank on Thursday slashed the key interest rate by 50 basis points in an off-cycle...
Too few have realised the true cost of this ruinous new economic Ice Age
They called it the Great Frost of 1709, and for good reason. There was no weather forecasting in those days,...
TSMC warns chip market will stagnate in 2020 after coronavirus
TAIPEI -- The global semiconductor and smartphone markets are both at risk of contracting this year due to the coronavirus,...
Coronavirus latest: China rejects US claim virus came from Wuhan lab
The Nikkei Asian Review is tracking the spread of the new coronavirus that originated in the central Chinese city of...
Delusional markets are still betting on a V-shaped recovery that cannot possibly happen
We would end up in the worst of all worlds, with multiple waves, and another forced closure of the economy...
Japan Airlines falls into operating loss of 20 billion yen
TOKYO -- Japan Airlines expects to book an operating loss of some 20 billion yen ($186 million) for the three...
The Government may extend Help to Buy, but housebuilders have bigger problems
Does the housebuilding sector face a re-run of the financial crisis? The biggest challenge to developers right now is the...
