Air France-KLM plans sales and efficiency drive to lift profit
Air France-KLM will combine a sales drive with efficiencies including better fleet management to lift profit margins to 7-8% over the medium term, the airline...
Bullet dodged? Markets bet global recession averted
World shares climbed back toward record highs on Tuesday, as hopes that Washington may roll back some of the tariffs it has imposed on Chinese...
Philippines’ Duterte picks top drug war critic as his ‘drugs tsar’
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed his main political rival, Leni Robredo, his “drugs tsar”, after the opposition leader expressed alarm about the high death...
Israel’s top court upholds deportation of Human Rights Watch official: lawyer
The director of the Israeli office of Human Rights Watch lost his Supreme Court appeal on Tuesday against deportation over his alleged promotion of pro-Palestinian...
Domestic online interference mars global elections: report
Domestic governments and local actors engaged in online interference in efforts to influence 26 of 30 national elections studied by a democracy watchdog over the...
Floundering tech bets put spotlight on SoftBank results, Son
SoftBank Group Corp and its founder Masayoshi Son face a day of reckoning on Wednesday when the investment juggernaut is likely to post weak quarterly...
Magyar Telekom says it is testing 5G technology with several suppliers
Magyar Telekom is testing high-speed 5G mobile network technology with several suppliers, including Huawei, it said, adding however that it had not entered into an...
Malaysia OKs Gojek’s entry, ride-hailing firms says talks still on
Malaysia will allow motorcycle-hailing firms such as Indonesia’s Gojek to start limited operations from January, a minister said on Tuesday, which could help end Grab’s...
SoftBank says WeWork Japan can become profitable ‘in near future’
WeWork’s Japan unit can become profitable “in the near future”, the Japanese partner of the U.S. office-space sharing startup said on Tuesday, amid investor scepticism...
Factbox: SoftBank’s ever-growing mountain of debt
SoftBank Group Corp has built a global conglomerate of telecoms and tech companies on an ever-growing mountain of debt that major rating agencies categorize as...