• India

    Govt firm on BS VI by 2020; extremely challenging says auto industry

    The government today stood firm on its decision to implement BS VI by 2020 despite the auto industry calling it an 'extremely challenging' task to move up to the stricter emission norms in just four years.

  • India

    FTA between India and EU will benefit both sides: Germany

    The proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the European Union (EU) will benefit both sides and create jobs, trade opportunities as well as facilitate investments, a senior German official said here.

  • India

    10.5% salary rise expected across industries in 2016: Survey

    Salaries are likely to increase by 10.5 per cent across levels and industries this year mainly due to optimistic economic outlook, a survey has said.

  • Giappone

    Renault searched in emissions probe, says no signs of defeat device

    French carmaker Renault said fraud investigators had inspected three of its sites in an emissions probe, news that wiped billions off its market value in an echo of the scandal engulfing German rival Volkswagen. Renault said investigations to date had found “no evidence of a defeat device equipping Renault vehicles”, ...

  • Cina Indonesia

    Fight or flight

    THE past six months have been hard on the reputations of China’s economic managers. Their attempts to bring troublesome stockmarkets to heel border on slapstick. The uncertain handling of the country’s exchange rate, on the other hand, is no laughing matter. Unexpected wobbles in the value of China’s currency roil ...

  • Estonia

    Picnic for the bears

    GLOOM seems to have descended at the start of 2016. Equity markets have had the worst start to the year in at least two decades. The great and the good have queued up to warn of the dangers ahead. George Soros, a fund manager, said the Chinese financial environment reminded him ...

  • Armenia Georgia (Country)

    From Russia with love

    DEBT crises, capital flight and corruption are all familiar problems for poor countries trying to finance their development. A bulwark, say some, is remittances: money sent home by migrants, worth $580 billion in 2014. Unlike portfolio flows, which tend to flee at the first sign of trouble, remittances usually increase ...

  • India

    Local heroes

    AS PERSONAL service goes, few big retailers can match the tailor-made offerings of India’s 15m or so tiny, family-owned shops known as kiranas. In addition to selling all manner of goods, most are happy to cut and deliver small amounts of fresh food—1kg of onions, say—and let customers buy on ...

  • Cina Bolivia

    An increasingly precious metal

    SQM, Chile’s biggest lithium producer, is the kind of company you might find in an industrial-espionage thriller. Its headquarters in the military district of Santiago bears no name. The man who for years ran the business, Julio Ponce, is the former son-in-law of the late dictator, Augusto Pinochet. He quit ...

  • Cina

    Better than barbarians

    Ren and a piece of his chemicals empire DESPITE the anaemic state of the global economy, companies from mainland China are investing abroad like never before. Chinese firms closed overseas deals worth $61 billion last year, according to a new analysis by the Rhodium Group, a consulting firm. This was up ...