HONG KONG SAR, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) - It’s been a bad year for tourism and a boom in the travel and hospitality sector would no doubt be good for the economy. However, it could also be a nightmare for people living and working amid the flux of transient tourists. It wasn’t that long ago that we [...]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the findings of its 6th annual sleep survey in a report titled Seeking Solutions: How COVID-19 Changed Sleep Around the World. Almost a year since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Philips surveyed 13,000 adults in [...]
650% increase in Account Take Over scams from Q4 2020 as compared to Q1 2020 250% increase in online banking fraud attacks 178% fraud rate increase for digital media 70% of all fraud is driven by card not present (CNP) transactions 48% drop in card present (CP) fraud attacks, though transaction volume only drops 20% SAN [...]
HONG KONG SAR, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) - How important is experience in entrepreneurial success? If you take a look at the world’s most successful businesspeople, the anecdotal evidence would point to the negative. Consider that Bill Gates didn’t have any experience running a business before Microsoft, and neither did Steve Jobs before co-founding Apple. Fast forward [...]
New York, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Yemeni civil society organizations believe justice and accountability can play a decisive role in establishing a lasting peace in Yemen, according to a new Open Society Foundations report. A Passage to Justice: Selected Yemeni Civil Society Views of Transitional Justice and Long-Term Accountability in Yemen highlights the leading role [...]
CHICAGO, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A new report by a task force chaired by Chuck Hagel, Malcolm Rifkind, and Kevin Rudd and convened by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, argues fraying American alliances and a rapidly changing security environment have begun to call into question America’s nuclear security guarantees and threaten the long-term [...]
London, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) - Strategic industry partnerships — linking businesses across different segments of the luxury travel, hospitality and leisure sector — are widely seen as a key component to further the recovery from the impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. New research from VistaJet, the first and only global business aviation company, in [...]
TORONTO, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading diversified professional services and investment management firm Colliers International Group Inc. (NASDAQ and TSX: CIGI) reveals investors are largely optimistic about a market rebound in 2021, according to its new Global Capital Markets 2021 Investor Outlook. Colliers’ research anticipates a 50 per cent surge in investment activity in [...]
HONG KONG SAR, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – “It’s not who I am underneath, it’s what I do that defines me,” so says the titular hero from the 2005 blockbuster, Batman Begins, starring Christian Bale as the billionaire caped crusader. Instead of the hero Batman, a group of academics were inspired by what is probably [...]
HONG KONG SAR, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) - Asia is the new global battleground for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. Our recent study, Pride and Prejudice: The next chapter of progress, sponsored by Manulife, Barclays and Nomura, captures the opinions of 359 full-time employees at companies across seven economies—China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore [...]