March2025

Two distinct fire occurrences in the city’s Shahi Masjid Slum in Gabtoli and BRB Slum at Bhashantek destroyed at least 185 shanties today. No injuries were reported, and the fire in both slums was contained. Md....

Air France-KLM said Thursday its profits dropped last year in large part because tourists avoided its home base of Paris during the summer Olympic Games in the French capital. Annual net earnings fell to 317 million...

Japan has cleared the key threshold for the government to officially declare an end to long-term price deflation, economy minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Friday. The remark highlights the government’s optimism over the economic outlook, which...

German airline giant Lufthansa said Thursday its 2024 profits dived during a turbulent year marked by strikes, rising costs and delayed aircraft deliveries, as a post-pandemic rebound petered out. The group reported a net profit of...

Alibaba shares surged more than seven percent in Hong Kong trade on Thursday after the Chinese tech giant launched an artificial intelligence model it says can compete with DeepSeek, this year’s surprise tech star. Investors have...

The Japanese owner of 7-Eleven announced on Thursday a raft of measures to fend off a takeover by a Canadian rival, including a $13.2-billion share buyback and an IPO of its US unit. The announcements are...

China’s economy is facing growing “uncertainty” in the international environment, as well as insufficient domestic demand, a top economic official said on Thursday. Beijing set an ambitious annual growth target of around five percent on Wednesday,...

China had been expected to loom large at high-level economic security talks between Britain and Japan on Friday, until US tariffs reared their head. Japan is the world’s fourth largest economy, and Britain the sixth. Both...

Argentina’s government said Wednesday it was aiming for a new loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund within two months. The deal, on top of the record $44-billion loan awarded to South America’s second-biggest economy in...

Asian markets climbed on Thursday after US President Donald Trump announced a one-month tariff delay on auto imports from Mexico and Canada. The White House announced Wednesday an exemption on any autos coming through the North...