TOKYO -- With the coronavirus pandemic still keeping many would-be business travelers grounded, All Nippon Airways is giving teleworkers something to chew on.
Call for entries: Climate Leaders Asia-Pacific 2022
TOKYO -- Nikkei Asia, in partnership with sister publication the Financial Times and data provider Statista, is compiling a list of Asia-Pacific companies that have achieved the greatest reduction in the intensity of greenhouse gas emissions.
The intention is to highlight businesses whose GHG emissions intensity -- emissions relative to revenue -- fell the most between 2015 and 2020. The list will be published in mid-2022 on asia.nikkei.com and in the Nikkei Asia magazine.
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Coronavirus latest: South Africa detects new 'unusual' variant
Nikkei Asia is tracking the spread of the coronavirus that was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
Cumulative global cases have reached 259,879,723, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The worldwide death toll has hit 5,180,214.
For more information about the spread of COVID-19 and vaccination progress around the world, please see our interactive charts and maps.
U.S. works toward year-end defense talks with top China officials
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. and China are trying to arrange for their top defense officials to meet before the end of this year, according to multiple U.S. government officials. It would be the first such meeting under President Joe Biden if it comes to pass. With tensions mounting between the countries over Taiwan and in the South China Sea, the talks could lead to building trust and help the powers avoid accidental confrontations.
Coronavirus latest: Dutch hospitals postpone chemotherapy amid COVID surge
Nikkei Asia is tracking the spread of the coronavirus that was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
Cumulative global cases have reached 259,492,648, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The worldwide death toll has hit 5,175,212.
For more information about the spread of COVID-19 and vaccination progress around the world, please see our interactive charts and maps.
Malaysian voters still determined to uproot corruption
Amir Fareed Rahim is a political risk analyst and director of strategy at the KRA Group, a Southeast Asian public affairs consultancy.
Coronavirus latest: China CO2 emissions fall for 1st time since last spring
Nikkei Asia is tracking the spread of the coronavirus that was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
Cumulative global cases have reached 259,492,648, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The worldwide death toll has hit 5,175,212.
For more information about the spread of COVID-19 and vaccination progress around the world, please see our interactive charts and maps.
Ikea opens first outlet in Philippines -- its largest globally
MANILA -- Swedish home furnishings retailer Ikea on Thursday opened its first outlet in the Philippines and its biggest branch in the world. In doing so, it faces a blessing and a curse: The COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged consumer spending on home improvements; it has also disrupted its global supply chain.
U.S. crackdown targets China's quantum computing, navigation tech
TAIPEI -- Quantum computing companies, memory chipmakers and suppliers of navigation chips are among the Chinese businesses hit by the latest U.S. blacklisting action, in a sign that Beijing's tech ambitions remain in Washington's crosshairs as tensions between the two countries rise.
Vietnam PM vows to improve human rights to attract investors
TOKYO -- Vietnam will beef up measures to ensure human rights in an attempt to attract more foreign investors, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Thursday.