Pandemic

To build resilience in business is essential  to mitigate business challenges. There are challenges, crises, adversities or even a pandemic that might arise out of the blues. A resilient business will be ready to recover from adversity, adapt to change and come back stronger than ever before. Building a resilient…

The cryptocurrency market, including Bitcoin, experienced a decline after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony to Congress on Tuesday, indicating the need for higher interest rates to tackle inflation amid the quick bounce back of the US economy from the pandemic.  As Bitcoin hovers around $22,000, marking a three-week low,…

The most profit-rich, two-year-long blowout party in automotive retail history may finally be winding down. So grab some aspirin, because here comes the inevitable hangover. Bloomberg noted this month that an increasing number of consumers are showing up at dealerships carrying boatloads of negative equity and rolling it into longer…

Navigation for News Categories Wellington remains the hardest hit of the main urban centres with the region's average home values down 21 percent on the year earlier. Photo: RNZ / Marika Khabazi House values continue to fall but are still well up on pre-pandemic levels, giving buyers and sellers reason…

Welcome to Farm-tok: Three Pinoy educational agri-TikTokers to binge watch At this point, there isn’t anybody who hasn’t heard of TikTok, the short form video social media platform whose popularity rose during the pandemic. Whether it be trendy dances, humorous clips or playful filters, almost everyone has probably watched at…

BAGUIO CITY: City administrator Bonifacio de la Peña lauded the Baguio Flower Festival Foundation Inc. (BFFFI) for the successful return of the Panagbenga Festival in February. The Panagbenga, also known as the Baguio Flower Festival, was held without restrictions for the first time since 2019 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.…

Health Minister Will Quince confirmed that the Department of Health spent £15,300 on 14 lavish wash and dry devices at the height of the first Covid lockdown, with Labour branding it 'one rule for them and another for everyone else' NHS staff resorted to wearing bin bags because they didn't…

He said he should not be the target of judicial reviews over his department’s failure to safeguard care home residents simply because he was Secretary of State – and that it should be the whole Government instead Mr Hancock complained that Ministers are the targets of judicial review (Image: Getty…

Hello, and welcome to this week’s selection of top stories in pictures. :: Weather and the talk of it were hard to miss as snow dominated SoCal headlines following intense winter storms that brought Los Angeles its longest cold snap in almost 20 years. The heavy snow buried California mountain…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday slammed the world's rich countries and energy giants for throttling poor nations with "predatory" interest rates and crippling fuel prices. Speaking in the Qatari capital, Doha, Guterres told leaders of more than 40 of the most deprived states that wealthy nations should provide $500…