Not long ago Vietnam’s Bac Giang province was one of the nation’s poorest regions, known for producing rice, lychees and poultry dubbed “running chicken.”. That was before the global tech supply chain...
Executives are weary of being repeatedly asked to prepare for a possible no-deal Brexit. On Tuesday afternoon, Boris Johnson held a conference call with the U.K.’s business leaders to urge them to get...
Eskom, South Africa’s indebted power utility, started a billion-dollar round of investments in Africa’s oldest and only nuclear power plant before getting permission from safety regulators that the re...
State-owned rail, ports and freight company Transnet on Friday tabled its annual results in Parliament. The entity is still in the green, although profit and took a 35% dip. The Covid-19 pandemic has ...
After September 11, 2001, the Statue of Liberty Museum, which was then located in the statue’s pedestal, was closed to 80% of visitors due to security restrictions. Those restrictions ended on May 16...
Sun Cable, what will be the world’s largest solar farm, will deploy a whooping 10-gigawatt-capacity of solar panels by 2026 in the Australian outback. The US$14 billion mega energy project will take ...
Swedish energy storage firm Azelio, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Morocco-based Jet Energy to explore energy storage projects in Morocco and Francophone Africa at large. The collabora...
The construction works in the new ‘‘international class’’ passenger terminal at Tobruk International Airport that serves the Mediterranean port city of Tobruk, capital of the Butnan District of Libya ...
Construction works are underway for a luxury lodge in the Nambiti Game Reserve outside Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Set to be known as “The Homestead”, the over US$ 12M project will be a ...
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It refers to a kind of building construction instead than a details style of home when you hear the term upreared residence (frequently shortened to prefab). Prefab homes are those that are construct...
We are listing ongoing projects showing pictures of the projects status and the project team involved. We are starting with Nairobi but plan to cover all major centers across Africa.
We are listing ongoing projects showing pictures of the projects status and the project team involved. We are starting with Nairobi but plan to cover all major centers across Africa.
Obesity, like climate change, has the ability to wreak havoc on economic growth. Ever since his brush with death from Covid-19 earlier this year, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been on a mission ...
While the world wrestles with a deadly pandemic and how to confront climate change, there’s another, long-term global challenge that no one really knows how to deal with: Population ageing. As the hu...
How does the tech company decide which devices should be reused and which recycled? Upgrading to an iPhone 12? Apple is happy to take your old phone off your hands. “If it’s in good shape, we’ll hel...
Starting in the February 2020 Budget and continuing in the June Supplementary Budget, the government has committed to significant expenditure consolidation. Unfortunately, with only a few days to go ...
Nearly 38% of households in South Africa are headed by women. They largely – or solely – support the home financially as breadwinners. That amounts to nearly 6.1 million homes in which women are the...
South Africa’s former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, provoked a political storm recently when she suggested that public servants implicated in grand corruption should be given the chance to apply ...
A wave of panic buying struck many countries when national states of disaster were announced in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. Overnight, toilet paper, cleaning products and hand sanitiser...
A couple of decades ago, this vineyard menagerie would have been highly unusual. At Tablas Creek winery in Paso Robles, California, 200 black-faced Dorper sheep munch weeds among rows of vines. Along...
Less than half of asset managers consider gender diversity when researching potential investments, undercutting the sector’s push for women in leadership, research by pension consultancy Redington sho...
Transaction fees on the VFEX cut by 150bps on the selling side. Clearing and settlement of transactions to be done offshore. Zimbabwe on Friday launched its second stock exchange, which officials beli...
A former special advisor to then-minister of public enterprises Malusi Gigaba denies claims he applied pressure to have Siyabonga Gama reinstated as Transnet CEO. Siyabonga Mahlangu further claims he ...
This was marginally below the revenue growth of 1.6% it posted for the previous financial year, but it came largely from tariff increases for port and rail users, which averaged 2.9% for its latest re...
Fikile Ntshangase, a vocal opponent of plans to extend the Somkhele coal mine, was murdered in her home on Thursday night. This comes after threats and attacks have previously been made against those ...
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan want auditors to explain their silence on state capture. A number of state-owned enterprises had monies extracted through the state capture project, which wa...
Wall Street kicked off the final trading session of the week Friday largely flat amid the continued absence of a stimulus deal from Washington though news of a Covid-19 treatment boosted traders. Abou...
Transnet said on Friday irregular expenditure in 2020 was lower at R9.97 billion compared to R18.51 billion in the previous year. Transnet, which operates nearly three-quarters of Africa’s rail networ...
Transnet said on Friday irregular expenditure in 2020 was lower at R9.97 billion ($614 million) compared to R18.51 billion in the previous year. Transnet, which operates nearly three-quarters of Afric...
Massmart has added its voice to retailers who lament the alcohol sales ban for causing them to part with billions of rands they could have made had the sale of liquor not been disrupted. The owner of ...
South African retailer The Foschini Group warned on Friday it was likely to post a half-year loss due to the impact of the coronavirus, which forced store closures in its major markets. It was likely ...
Computer chipmaker Intel saw shares slide Thursday after reporting weak sales for its data center and internet of things operations that overshadowed improvement in the personal computer market. Third...
Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $2.9 billion in penalties to settle criminal charges in the 1MDB Malaysian bribery scandal. The Global financial titan helped raise $6.5 billion for the Malaysian governmen...
Sibanye-Stillwater says it has signed a three-year wage agreement with unions at its Kroondal platinum mine near Rustenburg in the North West. In an update to shareholders on Friday, Sibanye said the ...
The talks come as southern African airspace reopens following Covid-19 restrictions. South Africa’s Airlink is in talks with several foreign airlines seeking to increase their reach in southern Africa...
With the easy access of available information, comes the risk of misinformation and disinformation sending DIY knowledge-seekers on a wild goose chase. The property industry is far from immune to the ...
South African farmers are expected to plant 8.3% more hectares of the food staple maize next season, boosted by above normal rainfall and higher maize prices, a survey of five traders and analysts sho...
The Minerals Council has said that the proposed introduction of an export tax on chrome ore will not address fundamental competitive issues plaguing SA's ferrochrome industry. This comes after Cabinet...
Tokyo stocks closed higher on Friday as investors were relieved by the final and more civil debate between US President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden compared with their first messy showdown. ...
European stock markets wobbled at the start of trading on Friday with London and Paris pushing upwards but Frankfurt lapsing into negative territory. The British capital's benchmark FTSE 100 index of ...
Asian markets mostly rose Friday but gains were limited as US lawmakers struggled to hammer out a fresh economic rescue package, while investors were largely unmoved by the last presidential debate be...
Hong Kong shares finished Friday with gains as traders keep tabs on US stimulus talks, while the last presidential debate appeared to do little to upset broad expectations that Joe Biden will win next...
Stock markets mostly rose Friday but gains were limited as US lawmakers struggled to hammer out a fresh economic rescue package, while investors were largely unmoved by the last presidential debate be...
Lobby group Business Leadership South Africa has listed key reforms it views as necessary to fast-track growth in a letter to Finance Minister Tito Mboweni before his medium-term budget policy stateme...
Sub-Saharan African economies face a slow recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and the region’s economic growth will fall behind the rest of the world next year, according to the International Monet...
Tesla is recalling about 30,000 imported Model S and Model X vehicles in China because of suspension problems, a setback for the US electric-car maker just as it faces intensifying competition in the ...
US equity futures were steady with Treasury yields, while Asian stocks were mixed, as traders digested the final presidential debate and lawmakers in Washington continued to haggle over a spending bil...
‘We’re going to focus on South Africa and on fixing the leakages in the African continent.’. Paul Hanratty, the new chief executive officer of Sanlam, is refocusing on the South African insurer’s home...
The rand steadied in early trade on Friday but was on track to clock weekly gains as optimism about a new stimulus package in the United States boosted risk taking. At 0600 GMT, the rand traded at R16...