Economy
Asia’s economic tiger won’t roar in 2020
Asia’s track record of growth in the face of economic crises is set to end with the IMF predicting zero GDP growth this year 17 April 2020 | Chang Yong Rhee, IMF (Image: Unsplash) This […]
Finance
Biggest downturn since the Great Depression
Latest IMF report attempts to quantify the economic fallout of COVID-19 15 April 2020 | Gita Gopinath, IMF The world has changed dramatically in the three months since the publication of the IMF’s World Economic […]
News
Sydney Morning Herald gives Qantas Freight’s crooked deal a free pass
In 2019 the SMH had documents proving Qantas chartered a cargo jet to a consortium financially backed by an international organised crime gang yet chose to ignore the story 14 April 2020 | Marcus Reubenstein […]
News
These are Australians, of Chinese descent, they need to be heard
Speaking out. Sixteen prominent Chinese-Australians sign an open letter calling on unity and racial tolerance in troubled times 13 April 2020 | | Marcus Reubenstein After weeks of harsh and unfair criticism – particularly in the […]
News
1 million masks for Australia arrive on 747 cargo flight from China
Chinese businesses and Chinese community gives back to Australia in spades 13 April 2020 | Su-Lin Tan, SCMP (IMAGE: Martin Pinnau) A group of private Chinese and Australian businesses have delivered 70 tonnes of medical […]
Culture
Fashion moves into ‘digital isolation’
Shanghai Fashion Week has just showcased its autumn-winter 2020 edition online, making it the world’s first fashion-week event at this scale to go fully digital 10 April 2020 | Christine Chou, Alizila (Image: SHFW) More […]
Finance
Global markets bounce while global COVID-19 infection goes up
Mixed news on the coronavirus front continues to feed into a bumpy ride for global financial markets 10 April 2020 | Shane Oliver, AMP Capital (Image: Anna Shvets) Share markets pushed higher again over the past week […]
Economy
Global uncertainty reaches new heights
At the risk of overstating the obvious the impact of this pandemic is like nothing seen before 9 April 2020 | Hites Ahir, Nicholas Bloom & Davide Furceri, IMF (Image: Lexscope) Though the warnings over […]
Finance
Plenty of market signposts, pointing in different directions
What signposts can we watch to be confident shares have bottomed? 8 April 2020 | Shane Oliver, AMP Capital After a roughly 35% plunge from their February high point to their lows around 23rd March, global and […]
News
PM praises Chinese community while divisive Liberal feeds online trolls
Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs Jason Wood’s position “untenable” following multiple racist comments posted on his Facebook page APAC News Exclusive 6 April 2020 | Marcus Reubenstein (Image: AAP) Online supporters of Federal Liberal MP […]
Finance
Good and bad news for global markets
Another week of volatility in investment markets but it’s both up and down volatility on a day to day basis as opposed to just straight down as was the case up until a couple of […]
Comment
Australia responds: COVID-19 update
Crisis far from over but things have become a little more clear 3 April 2020 | Marcus Reubenstein Just ten days ago, Australia’s rate of COVID-19 infections had reached a point where the number of […]
Business
Virgin Australia. Bailout or buyout?
Having already primed the economy with a stimulus package worth a whopping 10 percent of GDP, the government will soon have other problems, Michael West reports on a neat solution to a very untidy problem, the […]
Culture
Homeleisure: the new fashion category for China
China’s population was the first to face a major lockdown, which came during the nation’s busiest festival, from this young Chinese consumers have led a new fashion trend 1 April 2020 | Jiaqi Luo, […]
Business
Maintaining banking system safety amid the COVID-19 crisis
The global banking system faces extraordinary pressures that will remain after the health crisis has been controlled 1 April 2020 | Tobias Adrian & Aditya Narain, IMF (IMAGE: Jan Kolario) Today we face economic upheaval […]