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China’s Huawei unveiled its latest folding smartphone Monday and its first such device to be available internationally, competing in a niche category with new models from Samsung and Motorola. The company took the wraps off the new Mate Xs by video...

The Government of China promised tax cuts and other aid Monday to help companies recover from its virus outbreak, while a spike in new cases in Iran, Italy and South Korea raised the prospect of wider disruption to tourism and other global...

Today’s article will shed some light on one of the many epidemics that visit the country’s road system each night. This problem has been around for many years. It has now grown to such an extent that during last November and December, law-...

ADVISORY COLUMN: PRODUCTIVITY All I have is my word. Back in the day, this was a common saying among working professionals. For them, keeping one’s word was the only honourable, accepted thing to do But times have changed. Is there a place for...

Major contributors to the European Union’s budget blocked progress at an emergency summit on Friday, insisting that they would not stump up more funds for the bloc’s next long-term spending package, worth around €1 trillion (US$1.1 trillion). The...

Buoyed by big increases in exports and domestic sales coffee company Salada Foods Jamaica wants to extract more from exports by taking advantage of identified headroom for premium coffee products in overseas markets. General Manager Diana Blake...

Jamaica has issued a five-year operations and maintenance contract for the Highway 2000 East-West corridor to French company Jamaica Infrastructure Operators, JIO, which will get a three per cent cut of revenues along with a monthly fee. JIO will...

For some time, Janet Rankine-Henry, a dietitian, had talked about starting a business to provide personalised nutrition coaching and customised meals for people’s particular nutritional needs. In 2005, her three sisters and a friend challenged her...

J amaica’s central bank sealed over US$41.5 million ($5.8 billion) worth of currency swaps with banks and dealers, transactions that were introduced to address volatility in the foreign exchange market. The Bank of Jamaica’s, BOJ’s, overall...

Victoria’s Secret, beset by falling sales and uncomfortable questions about its billionaire founder who has run the company for five decades, is being sold. The company’s owner, L Brands, said that the private-equity firm Sycamore Brands will buy...

Puerto Rico’s government went to court on Wednesday to fight a deal that a federal control board overseeing the United States territory’s finances recently reached with bondholders to reduce the island’s debt by US$24 billion. In the motion,...