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Hong Kong Rugby Sevens back, but Covid rules remain
The Hong Kong Rugby Sevens tournament kicks off Friday for the first time since Covid-19 hit. While the city’s pandemic regulations remain strict, Chris Brooke, chairman of the Hong Kong Rugby U...
Credit Card Loans Back To 2019
Credit cards, the common purchasing tool getty Per The Wall Street Journal (Oct. 29-30): “Credit-card debt recently reached a new milestone: It returned to where it was before the pandemic.̶...
Apple’s Big Problem Gets Bigger
Apple (AAPL) has been one of the big surprises of the current quarterly earnings season so far. The manufacturer of the iPhone and the iPad managed to thwart the most optimistic forecasts during th...
Travel Retail Firmly Back In The Driving Seat At French Media Group Lagardere As Sales Top €5 Billion
The travel retail division of the French media company is delivering the goods again. (Photo … [+] Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket...
China’s Xi Jinping Gets Third Leadership Term In “Most Unforgettable Meet”
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of China’s … [+] ruling Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Saturday, Oct. 2...
Ringo Starr Has Covid-19 Rebound, Cancels 2022 Tour
After testing positive for Covid-19 again, Ringo Starr (seen here with his wife Barbara Bach on July … [+] 7, 2022) has canceled the rest of his 2022 North American tour. (Photo by Kevin Winter/...
Weak yen to boost travel; no full rebound without China
After more than two years of strict Covid-19 border controls, Japan reinstated visa-free travel to 68 countries on Tuesday. Maki Nakamura | Digitalvision | Getty Images The Japanese yen’s slump ...
Covid vaccines prevented at least 330,000 deaths among U.S. seniors in 2021
Covid vaccines prevented at least 330,000 deaths and nearly 700,000 hospitalizations among adult Medicare recipients in 2021, the Health and Human Services Department said in a new report published Fr...
Simplify The Business And Make It Fun Again
Chili’s parent company Brinker International named Kevin Hochman as its new CEO in May. One of … [+] Hochman’s priorities is to bring back the brand’s signature promotions and ...
Here’s Why Royal Caribbean, Carnival Stock Are Good Buys
For the past two years, since the covid pandemic hit in late-February 2020, the cruise industry has taken one punch after another. And, while the situation has improved from the extended period when c...
Almost Half Of All Online Daters Want To See Covid Vaccination Status On Profiles
Topline Nearly half of all Americans who have used dating apps in the last year say seeing someone’s Covid-19 vaccination status on their profile is important, with Democrats more likely than Republic...
What is required to travel to Hong Kong? Many, many tests
Travelers headed to Hong Kong no longer need to quarantine in a hotel upon arrival. But they will have to submit to a barrage of Covid tests. They can go to work, take public transportation and go to ...
Canada Lifts Covid Vaccine Mandate For International Travelers
Topline Canada will drop its Covid-19 vaccine requirement for visitors entering the country starting October 1, officials announced Monday, reopening the Canadian border to unvaccinated travelers for ...
Trip.com, China’s Biggest Online Travel Site, Reverses To Profit In 2nd Quarter As Global Bookings Gain
Employees walk through the reception area at the Trip.com headquarters in Shanghai in 2021. … [+] Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Trip.com, China biggest online tr...
Layoffs loom on the horizon, some economists say
From rising inflation to a red-hot job market and the negative gross domestic product in between, economists are divided on the health of the U.S. economy. “There has been a lot of talk recently...
Covid Pandemic ‘Finish Line’ In Sight
Topline The end of the Covid-19 pandemic is “in sight,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday, while emphasizing governments must take even more actions ...
Novak Djokovic ‘Cleared To Play’ Australian Open Despite Refusing To Get Vaccinated: Report
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – JANUARY 27: Novak Djokovic of Serbia poses with the Norman Brookes Challenge … [+] Cup following victory in his Men’s Singles Final match against Rafael Nadal ...
Lea Michele Cancels ‘Funny Girl’ Performances Only Days Into Run After Covid-Like Symptoms
Topline Just four days after Lea Michele made her buzzy debut as the lead in Funny Girl on Broadway, the actress announced on Instagram she will not perform Saturday, after showing early symptoms of C...
Democrats want probe of airline Covid bailouts over staff buyouts
Airline pilots walk through the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on December 27, 2021 in Arlington, Virginia. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Two House Democrats have asked a Treasury Departme...
China’s ‘Lost Decade’ Is Even Worse Than You Think
People line up for Covid tests in front of a mobile testing booth in July 19, 2022 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China. Yuan Kejia/VCG via Getty Images Turns out, economists worried about a Japan-li...
China Billionaire Guo Guangchang’s Flagship Fosun Int’l Plunges To Nine-Year Low As Tourism Stake Cut
China billionaire Guo Guangchang’s Fosun International controls money-losing Fosun Tourism, the … [+] owner of Club Med and other luxury tourism brands. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) Get...
67 New Hotels Around The World Worth Exploring This Fall
Several dozen new hotels and resorts are opening this fall around the world. Emerald Faarufushi Summer was a busy time for new hotel openings as well as numerous upgrades, renovations and promotions t...
Covid Has Reached Every Corner Of The World—But These Three Places Claim To Be Virus-Free
Topline The highly transmissible omicron variant has whittled down the list of countries that have managed to escape the Covid-19 pandemic so far, breaking through the longstanding defenses of numerou...
Skipped Health Care Visits May Have Caused More Than 100,000 Maternal And Child Deaths In Vulnerable Countries During Pandemic, Study Finds
Topline The Covid-19 pandemic may have fueled higher levels of maternal and child mortality in more than a dozen of the world’s poorest countries by causing women and children to skip health care visi...
Struggling with long Covid? Here’s what you should and should not eat
Fatigue, brain fog, heart palpitations and breathing difficulties. Those are just some of the common symptoms of “long Covid” that can affect people in the long term after recovery from i...
U.S. Business Optimism About China Outlook Drops To Record Low
People wearing protective masks use a laptop computer outside of a Starbucks Corp. in 2020. … [+] Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP Optimism among American companies...
How the U.S. government can keep household debt in check
On Aug. 24, President Biden announced the cancellation of $10,000 in federal student loan debt for most borrowers making less than $125,000 annually. But student loans account for less than 10% of hou...
Omicron-Specific Boosters Could Be Available By Labor Day—Here’s Who Should Get One
Topline New Covid-19 booster shots targeting the highly contagious omicron variant could be available soon after Labor Day, according to multiple reports, and all Americans 12 years and older will be ...
Xintiandi Developer Shui On Sees Possible “Golden Era” After Profit Drops By 58% Amid Shanghai Lockdowns
Xintandi office buildings located in central Shanghai. (Photo by Ryan Pyle/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Profit at Shui On Land, the Hong Kong-headquartered developer of Shanghai’s ...
Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine Is 73% Effective In Young Children, Study Finds
Topline Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine is effective in preventing illness from Covid-19 in nearly three in four young children and it provides protection across Covid-19 variants, according to a n...