Pandemic

Politicians often spend election campaigns promising to create jobs. This time they need people to fill them. When Victorians go to the polls in three weeks, they will do so at a time when unemployment in the state is at near-record lows. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the…

Illustration: Allie Carl/Axios Deaths caused by alcohol increased 26% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday shows. The big picture: That’s the highest rate recorded in at least 40 years, the study’s lead author, Merianne Spencer, said per…

November 5, 2022 | 12:00am President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is given departure honors at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2 on September 18, 2022 for his trip to the United States. The STAR / KJ Rosales MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos will raise several issues, including post-pandemic recovery, food…

Now that the national inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act has turned its spotlight on the organizers of last February’s occupation of Ottawa and various border blockades, and they’re not lookin’ all that good, Preston Manning says he wants to have an inquiry of his own. Wednesday, Manning…

“I think there will be many applicants, from both digital nomads and retirees,” he said. Hotel managers on the island already have many long-staying guests, says Rai Suryawijaya from the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association. “In my place, the Batu Belig Hotel and Spa in Badung, we have many from…

Your browser does not support the audio element. Due to COVID-19 pandemic prevention requirements, two NIO automobile factories in Hefei, China’s Anhui Province, have recently stopped production, causing delays to delivery. According to a report by Cailian Press on November 3, production has now resumed. NIO‘s F1 Factory produces many…

Forbes' inaugural list of 50 leaders, executives, thinkers and teams who are shaping the office of tomorrow, today. W hat are we really talking about when we talk about the “future of work”? Nearly three years since the pandemic began, that phrase remains ubiquitous, signifying everything and nothing. It has…

“We’ve been monitoring the massive financial impact and stress COVID has had on Australians since February 2020,” Professor Biddle said. “In really encouraging news, for the first time since the virus hit our shores Australians are working more hours on average than before the pandemic. “When COVID-19 hit Australia the…

The federal government has eased its annual punishments for hospitals with higher-than-expected readmission rates in an acknowledgment of the upheaval the COVID-19 pandemic has caused, resulting in the lightest penalties since 2014. The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program has been a mainstay of Medicare’s hospital payment system since it began in…

National “The calls tell us corporations have used inflation, the pandemic and supply chain challenges as an excuse to exaggerate their own costs and then nickel and dime consumers.” A woman shops for groceries in Manhattan on July 13, 2022. Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times By Isabella Simonetti and Julie…