India’s Tata empire faces big decisions on airlines

MUMBAI: Ratan Tata is no stranger to flying. As a 17-year-old, the patriarch of India’s biggest conglomerate once landed a plane that had lost its sole engine mid-flight. He’s also piloted the supersonic F-16 fighter jet.

Flourishing under the MCO

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Insight - Investors press mining firms to revamp heritage oversight

RIO Tinto’s destruction of sacred indigenous rock shelters in Australia this year has dismayed and galvanised a swathe of investors who want big changes in how mining firms manage heritage issues and have begun to tell them so

Megaprojects flagged as Trojan horse to develop remaining rainforests

KUALA LUMPUR: A rise in huge, opaque infrastructure and mining projects threatens to destroy and open up the world's last remaining rainforests to development, researchers warned on Thursday.

China should expect no reprieve from Trump measures under Biden - analysts

WASHINGTON: When he enters the White House in January, Joe Biden will likely stick with the Trump administration's harsh policies toward Chinese tech giants like Huawei Technologies, bowing to anti-China sentiment among U.S. lawmakers from both parties

Insight - Budget with an agenda for women

Food companies urge Britain to adopt tougher rules to protect tropical forests

LONDON: Supermarkets, food manufacturers and restaurant chains under pressure from campaigners over their environmental impact urged Britain on Monday to strengthen a plan to stop tropical forests from being cut down to grow cocoa, palm oil and soy.

Selangor Dredging to launch two projects worth RM906mil

KUALA LUMPUR: Selangor Dredging Bhd plans to launch two new projects with a combined estimated gross development value (GDV) of RM905.62mil soon.

Lim’s empire latches on to Bandar Malaysia

AFTER three years of vacillating on mega projects from the very top in Putrajaya, the construction industry can now breathe a sigh of relief. Industry players can finally catch a break, and the largest one at that, with the first phase of Bandar Malaysia slated to kick off early next year.

Newmont sees gold ‘elevated’

TORONTO: The world’s biggest gold producer sees the price of the precious metal remaining “elevated”, as governments continue pandemic stimulus spending, but don’t expect that to change Newmont Corp’s focus on fiscal “discipline” any time soon.