Pandemic

For those who are within five years of retirement — either those who are five years away, or who have recently entered — the market volatility being experienced today as a result of the White House ’s embattled tariff policy are likely to endure challenges as they navigate the potential…

On paper, the global sugar industry is enjoying a sweet spot. Worldwide production is increasing year-on-year, nearby sugar futures have bounced back from pandemic lows, and a healthy appetite for biofuels and natural sweeteners is propping up demand. Yet sugar insiders are far from bullish. Why? Global trade’s dark clouds…

Navigation for News Categories The benchmark index of the top 50 stocks has fallen more than 3 percent. Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver Two billion dollars has been wiped off the value of New Zealand's share market as the rout of global financial markets caused by the US tariff policy…

LOS ANGELES — More than 1,000 film and television workers packed into a building in Los Angeles' Sun Valley neighborhood Sunday to rally for renewed investment in Hollywood.  The event was part of a grassroots movement pushing for studios to bring production back to Los Angeles after the city suffered…

Louis DeJoy, the head of the U.S. Postal Service, intends to step down, the federal agency said Tuesday, after a nearly five-year tenure marked by the coronavirus pandemic, surges in mail-in election ballots and efforts to stem losses through cost and service cuts. In a Monday letter, Postmaster General DeJoy…

The head of the World Health Organization insisted on Monday it was "now or never" to strike a landmark global accord on tackling future pandemics, despite the United States withdrawing from negotiations. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said no country could protect itself from the next pandemic on its own…

Marcos, speaking before a Davao crowd, brings up the issues of EJKs, West Philippine Sea, anomalous pandemic deals, and Philippine offshore gaming operators MANILA, Philippines – Even while in the bailiwick of his political nemesis, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took potshots at the Duterte administration during the campaign rally of…

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A study of Chinese court records from 2010 to 2023 found that pangolin scale seizures peaked in 2018 and have since declined; while the authors attribute this to increased enforcement and public awareness in China, independent observers cite global factors like COVID-19 and stricter regulations in source and transit countries.…

In 2020, as most of the world imposed strict lockdowns to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Belarus took a vastly different approach.  Its authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, dismissed the virus as insignificant, famously suggesting that a few shots of vodka and a sauna were all that was needed to fend it…