In January they arrived in Sheraro, a town in northern Tigray that hosts thousands of other refugees from the western zone ...

And China hopes to draw on talented foreigners, too. On October 1st it introduced a new “K” visa that will admit science, ...

“PRICES ARE always going up since covid,” says Amy Aron on her way out of Lidl in Hoxton, nodding to a half-filled granny cart. The budget German grocer opened this store in east London in November, ...

How long will Thailand’s latest prime minister manage to hang around? Anutin Charnvirakul’s two predecessors lasted just a year each. He himself has promised to call an election within four months.

As a number, 150,000 is usefully round. In May 2024 Tom Perriello, then America’s special envoy to Sudan, told Congress that anywhere between 15,000 and 150,000 people might have died in the 13 months ...

Thailand cut its estimate for economic growth this year to 2.5-3.5% after suffering its worst slump in more than two decades in 2020 due to the shock from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Taiwan's economy is expected to grow 2.54% in 2020, the slowest in four years but far better than many of its regional peers, as a strong rebound in exports and consumer confidence helps the island ...

There is a high risk the resurgence in coronavirus cases halts the global economic recovery by year-end, according to Reuters polls of around 500 economists, a majority of whom expected the rebound ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Joel Mokyr (Northwestern Univ.), Phillippe Aghion (London School of ...

A new round of restrictions in Thailand aimed at containing a fresh wave of coronavirus infections will likely derail the economy's nascent recovery from its 2020 slump.

If 2020 was the year the Federal Reserve overhauled its game plan for supporting the U.S. economy, 2021 will be the year its new approach gets tested should a coronavirus vaccine deliver the lift that ...

In a week when leading forecasters boosted their view of the U.S. economic recovery, data on retail store traffic, small business hiring and other high-frequency indicators largely worsened, signaling ...