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By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) -Western media reports on China’s population being overtaken by India deliberately ignores China’s development, using the topic to “bad mouth” it and advocate decoupling, state broadcaster CCTV said on Thursday. CCTV’s sharply worded commentary said the subtext from Western media in recent years was that China’s development was in “big trouble” and that when China’s demographic dividend disappears, it would decline, and the global […]

By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) -Western media reports on China’s population being overtaken by India deliberately ignores China’s development, using the topic to “bad mouth” it and advocate decoupling, state broadcaster CCTV said on Thursday. CCTV’s sharply worded commentary said the subtext from Western media in recent years was that China’s development was in “big trouble” and that when China’s demographic dividend disappears, it would decline, and the global […]

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Corporate governance in Japan has suddenly become a cause celebre, rousing the world’s third-largest stock market out of decades of lethargy and drawing in hordes of foreign investors. Japan’s stock market has long been seen by investors as a ‘value trap’ where companies focus on market share, hoard cash and care little about shareholder returns. While there has long been talk of change, 2023 […]

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Corporate governance in Japan has suddenly become a cause celebre, rousing the world’s third-largest stock market out of decades of lethargy and drawing in hordes of foreign investors. Japan’s stock market has long been seen by investors as a ‘value trap’ where companies focus on market share, hoard cash and care little about shareholder returns. While there has long been talk of change, 2023 […]

(Reuters) – Consumer healthcare group Haleon expects 2023 organic revenue growth towards the upper end of its 4%-6% forecast, it said on Thursday, on strong demand and the restocking of its respiratory health products due to a bad cold and flu season. The company, the world’s biggest standalone consumer health business that sells non-prescription drugs, vitamins and oral care products, kept the rest of its full-year 2023 outlook unchanged. Haleon […]

(Reuters) – Consumer healthcare group Haleon expects 2023 organic revenue growth towards the upper end of its 4%-6% forecast, it said on Thursday, on strong demand and the restocking of its respiratory health products due to a bad cold and flu season. The company, the world’s biggest standalone consumer health business that sells non-prescription drugs, vitamins and oral care products, kept the rest of its full-year 2023 outlook unchanged. Haleon […]

(Reuters) – Consumer healthcare group Haleon expects 2023 organic revenue growth towards the upper end of its 4%-6% forecast, it said on Thursday, on strong demand and the restocking of its respiratory health products due to a bad cold and flu season. The company, the world’s biggest standalone consumer health business that sells non-prescription drugs, vitamins and oral care products, kept the rest of its full-year 2023 outlook unchanged. Haleon […]

(Reuters) – Consumer healthcare group Haleon expects 2023 organic revenue growth towards the upper end of its 4%-6% forecast, it said on Thursday, on strong demand and the restocking of its respiratory health products due to a bad cold and flu season. The company, the world’s biggest standalone consumer health business that sells non-prescription drugs, vitamins and oral care products, kept the rest of its full-year 2023 outlook unchanged. Haleon […]

BERLIN (Reuters) -Airports in Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Cologne Bonn were virtually empty on Thursday in the first of another round of strikes called by Germany’s Verdi trade union over the cost of living crisis. Nearly 100,000 people will be affected by aviation security worker strikes on Thursday and Friday at the three airports, airport association ADV said, with around 700 departing flights to be cancelled. “The situation in the terminals […]