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Twitter shield needs fresh look, not Trump spite

President Donald Trump's executive order targeting social-media companies raises tough questions about presidential power, presidential bullying and freedom of speech. To understand it, we need to start with what's clear, and then explore what's not.
U.S. poised to take financial fight to China

Through three years of economic conflict, the United States and China have erected tariffs that squeezed trade. They have clashed over the telecommunications firm Huawei and the flow of strategic semiconductor technology.
Economic fraudsters may be `winning the war’ in Thailand: PwC survey

A decrease in reported fraud and other types of economic crimes in Thailand over the last two years may indicate companies are not doing enough to protect themselves, a survey by PwC shows.
Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns

The coronavirus pandemic is likely to bring about many deep, long-lasting changes in U.S. society and the economy. It's difficult to predict what most of those will be. Unfortunately, one likely possibility is that college towns will suffer.
Top investor backs Mc Group to bounce back after outbreak

Prominent investor Niwet Hemwachirawarakorn says he will hold onto his shares in Mc Group for the long term despite its drop in first-quarter earnings, as he believes the clothing giant’s performance will recover once the Covid-19 outbreak subsides.

Kazakhstan the Heart of Eurasia

Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School.

Twitter shield needs fresh look, not Trump spite

President Trump

U.S. poised to take financial fight to China

Shin Honma, forensic services partner of PwC Thailand

Economic fraudsters may be `winning the war’ in Thailand: PwC survey

Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns

Niwet Hemwachirawarakorn

Top investor backs Mc Group to bounce back after outbreak

New possibilities and new horizons: The next decade in APJ

A Wall Street sign. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Mark Kauzlarich

Wall Street's elite bond club is cracking

The next frontier of shopping will be livestreamed

States that snubbed Obamacare may regret it

The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington on Aug. 13, 2019. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Andrew Harrer.

The Fed should go negative next week

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The energy revolution that started in 1954 is reaching its crescendo

Keeping food supply chains open will help us survive this crisis

Private sector calls on govt to pay 50% of employees’ wages

In times of crisis, Thailand needs reliable, flexible data centre solutions

Subhasakdi Krishnamra

Key leadership skills for CEO to navigate through the VUCA plus world

Social distancing makes sense only with extraordinary fiscal stimulus

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Where is the U.S. getting the trillion dollars it'll take to fight the coronavirus?

Saudi Aramco will find it increasingly hard to serve two masters

Stock under Trump
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Trump took credit during Wall Street's highs, but what about its lows?

Wall Street pros panic over coronavirus while mom and pop buy

Alexander Cespedes

Prioritising PDPA compliance activities as May approaches

Monica Hesse is a columnist for The Washington Post's Style section

Pandemic, panic and toilet paper mathematics

Heather Long is an economics correspondent. Before joining The Washington Post, she was a senior economics reporter at CNN and a columnist and deputy editor at the Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa. She also worked at an investment firm in London.

The U.S. may already be in a recession, and it could linger even after the covid-19 crisis is over

OPEC's epic fail will hurt all oil producers, even Russia

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