Happy new year to everyone. This is Kenji from Hong Kong, where the scheduled reopening of the border with mainland China on Sunday has been dominating headlines lately.The return of mainland visitors for the first time in three years is expected to give the stagnant…

The Wall Street Journal is demanding answers from the Phoenix Police Department after an officer detained and handcuffed one of its reporters outside a Chase Bank — an incident that press freedom advocates say raises First Amendment concerns and mirrors a larger, growing hostility from…

Good morning. US labour market data came in hot again yesterday, in the form of ADP payrolls, and this time the stock market took notice. Meanwhile, depositors in Silvergate, a crypto-focused bank, withdrew $8.1bn in the fourth quarter. And you know what? Silvergate had the…

The contest for the next Speaker of the US House of Representatives is to drag into a fourth day after lawmakers voted to adjourn proceedings yesterday evening following a historic 11th ballot defeat for Republican Kevin McCarthy amid a gruelling impasse in Washington.Despite last-ditch attempts…

Google Search was once one of the wonders of the online world. Its clean, organised pages of results filtered the otherwise unmanageable slog of information on the internet. That was until it became cluttered with adverts. Now the world’s biggest search engine is less encyclopedia,…

Björn Rosengren took the reins at ABB in March 2020 with a mandate to shake up the Swiss industrial group after years of underperformance. Events — a global pandemic, production shutdowns in key markets and an economic downturn — may have proved an additional challenge…