Business Weekly

Rahul Tandon talks to a man whose family chocolate business – founded by his father in Syria in the 1980s - was destroyed by war. His family was ripped apart and he had to flee, via a refugee camp in Lebanon, to Canada where he resettled and re-launched the business.Today, it’s t ...  Show more

From Hollywood adverts fronted by Idris Elba to glittering skylines and global events, Gulf countries have spent decades pitching themselves as stable hubs for international investment. But as conflict spreads across the Middle East, investors are watching the region more closely ...  Show more

China’s premier Li Qiang criticized western countries’ attempts to extricate themselves from trade with China at yesterday’s World Economic Forum gathering dubbed “Summer Davos”. Li argued even if there’s a push to move factories to southeast Asia, parts and raw materials will st ...  Show more

Shares in the property company Evergrande were suspended from Hong Kong trading on Thursday as the company confirmed that its billionaire founder and chairman, Hui Ka Yan, has been detained on suspicion of criminal activity. Rahul Tandon looks at the latest developments and what ...  Show more

Physicists have pursued the technology for decades as it promises a potential source of near-limitless clean energy. They say there is still some way to go before fusion powers homes. As China eases covid restrictions we discuss plans by U-S vaccine maker Moderna to enter the Chi ...  Show more

President Joe Biden has committed hundreds of billions of dollars to supercharging the US tech sector. Democrats hope it will give the nation a competitive edge when it comes to semiconductors - a new battleground in global manufacturing. Professor David Yoffie, a former board me ...  Show more