Brazil's BRF SA on Thursday reported a net loss for the second quarter, as higher grain prices and the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic weighed on the pork and chicken processor.
Visitors to Thailand's resort island of Phuket in July were at just 1% of pre-pandemic levels, an official told Reuters, as a bid to revive tourism to the Southeast Asian country gets off to a slow start amid its biggest COVID-19 outbreak yet.
Workers at Chile's Escondida mine, the world's biggest copper deposit, have approved a new contract with management, the company, controlled by BHP , said in a statement on Thursday.
Japanese Emperor Naruhito expressed "deep remorse" over the country's wartime past on Sunday, the 76th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two, delivering a message largely unchanged from last year's.
Venezuela's partial dollarization has allowed for tenuous growth in commerce and services but is not enough to ensure recovery from years of hyperinflation, the president of business chamber Fedecamaras said in an interview.