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Corporate China posts second straight year of falling profits
TOKYO — Chinese listed companies are still suffering from weak earnings. Net profit for 2024 at roughly 5,200 companies fell 13% from the previous year, marking the second straight year of decline and the first back-to-back drop since 2000. A prolonged real estate slump has dragged down a range of sectors, including consumer-facing industries such…
Vietnam’s To Lam stresses reform 50 years after end of war
HO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam’s top leader, To Lam, highlighted the importance of reforming the country as it celebrated the 50th annivers of the end of the Vietnam War. On April 30th, 1975, communist forces took over Saigon, as Ho Chi Minh City was then known, effectively ending the two-decade-long war between Hanoi and the Washington-backed…
Mayor Karachi inaugurates digital Aap to streamline sal process
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Pakistan shifts gears in car exports, with Japanese taking lead
ISLAMABAD — Automakers in Pakistan have begun exploring exports of locally assembled cars, with Japanese brands taking the lead under a government policy drive aiming to turn the industry exportable. However, experts and industry officials question the policy’s effectiveness and point to a lack of an adequate mechanism in the policy structure.
Trump 2.0 shatters long-held corporate assumptions
Nobuko Kobayashi co-leads the Japan consumer practice of global strategy consulting group EY-Parthenon. Kyle Lawless is a director at EY-Parthenon in Tokyo. The real shock for CEOs under Trump 2.0 isn’t tariffs, it’s the breakdown of the global system the U.S. built and guaranteed. Businesses must digest this departure from the past through an honest…
PAF’s timely response compels four Indian jets to retreat
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China state airlines stuck in red as trade war darkens skies ahead
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China’s factory activity contracts in April as US tariffs hurt orders
TOKYO — China’s manufacturing activity contracted in April, reversing an expansion recorded in the previous two months, as the trade war with the U.S. started to weigh on the outlook for exports. The country’s benchmark purchasing managers’ index came in at 49.0 for the month, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on Wednesday. The reading,…