China Job Crisis

Freshly graduated psychology major Zhang has failed to find a job in her chosen field of market research despite sending out thousands of CVs to Chinese employers.

India's Covid-19 cases continue to climb, even as the economy tanks. China is pressing forward on the two countries' disputed Himalayan border, where dozens of Indian soldiers have been killed. Tax revenues have plummeted, state governments are unhappy and 21 million of India's rare salaried jobs vanished in the last few months. And yet Prime Minis...

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today accused the central government of using certain sections of the media to divert the country's attention away from all the big-ticket problems, including job loss and security along the China border, while focusing on a toxic coverage of the Sushant Singh Rajput case that has dominated headlines since...

Alibaba Group Holding is emerging as one of China's biggest corporate winners of the coronavirus crisis, gaining the opportunity to expand its businesses and solidify its status as a critical part of the country's socio-economic engine.

The knitwear capital of India, Tirupur, is facing a crisis with a decline in exports and job losses. Five lakh small and micro industries have been shut down in Tamil Nadu. The city's exports have dwindled from Rs 26,000 crore to Rs 24,000 crore. Apparel exports were already struggling against low-priced goods from China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Sri L...

As Pakistan bets on cheap coal in the Thar desert to resolve its energy crisis, a select group of women is eyeing a road out of poverty by snapping up truck-driving jobs that once only went to men

China's central bank slashed its forecast for exports on Wednesday, predicting a second straight annual fall in shipments, but said the economy will still grow 6.8 percent this year.

The global economy may be in a better shape after its worst-ever crisis, but it is no time to relax, and governments as well as business leaders must persist with job creation, income and gender diversification as also to meet aspirations of the youth to keep up the growth momentum.

If you missed our coverage, here are the top 10 stories of the day.

"This crisis is not over," said John Silvia of Wells Fargo. "The crisis will wax and wane for years."

Europe's debt crisis has frayed nerves around the world for months. Now signs of weakness in the US jobs market and in Chinese factory output give policymakers even more reason to be afraid. Markets across Asia fell sharply on Monday morning. A dark cloud will hang over US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke when he testifies before lawmakers on ...

The prospect of political risks joining economic and debt problems on the euro zone's list of worries will keep investors focused firmly on safety plays in the coming week. The implications of French and Greek elections, March readings on industrial production in Spain, Germany, Italy and France, China's inflation, retail and factory output numbers...

Youth jobless rates have soared, increasing the risk of social unrest especially in parts of Africa and the Middle East. Long-term jobseekers are demoralised and an average of 40 per cent of job seekers in their prime (aged 25-49) in advanced countries have been without work for more than a year, the report found. The report recommends countries wo...

The hiring outlook has improved over the last three months in most large economies, including the United States, but employers could quickly turn cautious if a crisis erupted

Japan's Nikkei 225 index was 0.3% higher. Benchmarks in Singapore, Taiwan and mainland China also rose.

Freshly graduated psychology major Zhang has failed to find a job in her chosen field of market research despite sending out thousands of CVs to Chinese employers.

India's Covid-19 cases continue to climb, even as the economy tanks. China is pressing forward on the two countries' disputed Himalayan border, where dozens of Indian soldiers have been killed. Tax revenues have plummeted, state governments are unhappy and 21 million of India's rare salaried jobs vanished in the last few months. And yet Prime Minis...

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today accused the central government of using certain sections of the media to divert the country's attention away from all the big-ticket problems, including job loss and security along the China border, while focusing on a toxic coverage of the Sushant Singh Rajput case that has dominated headlines since...

Alibaba Group Holding is emerging as one of China's biggest corporate winners of the coronavirus crisis, gaining the opportunity to expand its businesses and solidify its status as a critical part of the country's socio-economic engine.

The knitwear capital of India, Tirupur, is facing a crisis with a decline in exports and job losses. Five lakh small and micro industries have been shut down in Tamil Nadu. The city's exports have dwindled from Rs 26,000 crore to Rs 24,000 crore. Apparel exports were already struggling against low-priced goods from China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Sri L...

As Pakistan bets on cheap coal in the Thar desert to resolve its energy crisis, a select group of women is eyeing a road out of poverty by snapping up truck-driving jobs that once only went to men

China's central bank slashed its forecast for exports on Wednesday, predicting a second straight annual fall in shipments, but said the economy will still grow 6.8 percent this year.

The global economy may be in a better shape after its worst-ever crisis, but it is no time to relax, and governments as well as business leaders must persist with job creation, income and gender diversification as also to meet aspirations of the youth to keep up the growth momentum.

If you missed our coverage, here are the top 10 stories of the day.

"This crisis is not over," said John Silvia of Wells Fargo. "The crisis will wax and wane for years."

Europe's debt crisis has frayed nerves around the world for months. Now signs of weakness in the US jobs market and in Chinese factory output give policymakers even more reason to be afraid. Markets across Asia fell sharply on Monday morning. A dark cloud will hang over US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke when he testifies before lawmakers on ...

The prospect of political risks joining economic and debt problems on the euro zone's list of worries will keep investors focused firmly on safety plays in the coming week. The implications of French and Greek elections, March readings on industrial production in Spain, Germany, Italy and France, China's inflation, retail and factory output numbers...

Youth jobless rates have soared, increasing the risk of social unrest especially in parts of Africa and the Middle East. Long-term jobseekers are demoralised and an average of 40 per cent of job seekers in their prime (aged 25-49) in advanced countries have been without work for more than a year, the report found. The report recommends countries wo...

The hiring outlook has improved over the last three months in most large economies, including the United States, but employers could quickly turn cautious if a crisis erupted

Japan's Nikkei 225 index was 0.3% higher. Benchmarks in Singapore, Taiwan and mainland China also rose.