FamilyMart Japan reveals results of shorter trading-hours test
A trial to reduce business hours has resulted in a 59 per cent drop in operating profits for FamilyMart Japan.The trial by the...
Coronavirus: ‘severe’ impact looms for Asian travel-retail sector
Asian travel-retail sales in Hong Kong and globally are expected to be heavily impacted by the growing coronavirus crisis.
With airlines cancelling flights...
US announces partial truce with Taliban
The United States has secured a seven-day reduction in violence in Afghanistan that it hopes will allow it to strike a deal with the...
Australian court okays $10b Vodafone-TPG merger
Two of Australia’s largest telecommunications firms appear set to merge, after a court ruled on Thursday that the multi-billion-dollar deal between Vodafone and TPG...
Airstrikes on Yemen kill 31 after Saudi jet crash
Thirty-one people were killed in airstrikes on Yemen on Saturday, the United Nations said, the victims of an apparent Saudi-led retaliation after Iran-backed Huthi rebels...
