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CNA – China’s economy showed surprising resilience in August, with faster-than-expected growth in factory output and retail sales shoring up the recovery from the crippling effects of COVID-19 curbs, heatwaves and a deepening property slump. The better-than-expected figures show the world’s second-largest economy is gaining some steam, after narrowly escaping a contraction in the June […]

PHNOM PENH (XINHUA) – The number of international tourists to Cambodia has increased at a faster-than-expected pace, prompting the kingdom to lift its target to two million tourists for 2022, up from earlier forecast of one million, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said yesterday. The Southeast Asian nation received 998,272 international visitors in the first eight […]

  The World Bank has questioned the methodology employed the National Bureau of Statistics to to generate its employment statistics. Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige revealed this on Wednesday during while receiving the leadership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) in his office. According to the NBS, in a report released in March, the country’s unemployment rate rose from 27.1 percent in the second quarter of 2020 to 33.3 percent in the fourth quarter. N...

Global Cases Top 100 Million; N.J. May Relax Curbs: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/26/2021 Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- Global coronavirus cases surpassed 100 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, marking another grim milestone in the pandemic. New York City said it would miss its goal of administering 1 million vaccine shots by the end of January, and Mayor Bill de Blasio appealed to the Biden administration for more doses. Pfizer Inc. will be able to su...

Global Cases Top 100 Million; N.J. May Relax Curbs: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/26/2021 Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- Global coronavirus cases surpassed 100 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, marking another grim milestone in the pandemic. New York City said it would miss its goal of administering 1 million vaccine shots by the end of January, and Mayor Bill de Blasio appealed to the Biden administration for more doses. Pfizer Inc. will be able to su...

Global Cases Top 100 Million; N.J. May Relax Curbs: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/26/2021 Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- Global coronavirus cases surpassed 100 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, marking another grim milestone in the pandemic. New York City said it would miss its goal of administering 1 million vaccine shots by the end of January, and Mayor Bill de Blasio appealed to the Biden administration for more doses. Pfizer Inc. will be able to su...

Global Cases Top 100 Million; N.J. May Relax Curbs: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/26/2021 Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- Global coronavirus cases surpassed 100 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, marking another grim milestone in the pandemic. New York City said it would miss its goal of administering 1 million vaccine shots by the end of January, and Mayor Bill de Blasio appealed to the Biden administration for more doses. Pfizer Inc. will be able to su...