In a year where business has had to transform the way it meets the needs of society and the environment, global family-owned businesses risk falling behind, according to PwC’s 2020 NextGen survey of 2,801 family business owners, including Ireland.

Shares of Home Depot slipped  as much as 6% on Tuesday as the largest home improvement retailer in the country declined to provide profit guidance for 2021, citing the unpredictability of how the coronavirus pandemic will affect its sales.

Switzerland-based Blackstone Resources announced important achievements by its subsidiary Blackstone Technology, during its Blackstone’s Battery Day held recently.

HSBC on Tuesday (Feb 23) vowed to accelerate its Asia pivot despite spiralling tensions between China and the West after it reported a 30 per cent plunge in profits for 2020 caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Leading Bedouin scholar Clinton Bailey has amassed hundreds of hours of recordings about the nomadic society’s poetry, history and legal system.

The island of Penang on the northwest coast of Malaysia is known for its sandy beaches, the colourful wall murals of its capital Georgetown, and its fiery street food.

Mandatory Pentagon reports will give U.S. congressional overseers more insight into the threat and prevalence of extremism in the military after the Capitol attack on Jan. 6.

Slate podcast host Mike Pesca has been handed an “indefinite suspension” after sharing his opinion about the controversy that led to the ouster of veteran New York Times reporter Donald McNeil Jr.

The State Council, China’s cabinet, has released a guideline to accelerate the development of a green and low-carbon circular economic development system.

The Overseas Economic Research Institute of the Export-Import Bank of Korea has forecast that the local shipbuilding industry will see the volume of orders increase over 100 percent this year from 2020.