Pacific ministers endorse Fiji camp as disaster relief depot
Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction Ministers and disaster management officials visit the BlackRock Camp in Nadi. Photo: RNZ Pacific/Lice Movono Pacific countries have officially agreed to...
Category : Supply Chain Risk
Why is risk management important in modern supply chains?
The primary reason for businesses to exist is to make profits. In a perfect world, having a good product that caters to a specific need...
Strong typhoon Nanmadol makes landfall in southwestern Japan
TOKYO (Kyodo) — A large and powerful typhoon made landfall in Japan’s southwestern region of Kyushu, with the weather agency warning of unprecedented winds and...
Opinion | Climate change is melting Greenland and Antarctica’s ice. Time to act.
As this month’s unseasonably high temperatures drove unprecedented melting of the Greenland ice sheet, experts delivered a chilling message: Get used to it. Massive stores...
Don’t break out the Champagne just yet to celebrate an end to the Ukraine war
Once again, war’s dynamism shows its face. A month ago, the common belief about the Ukraine war was, “It’s a stalemate, so let’s negotiate.” Today,...
EU proposes to suspend billions in funds to Hungary
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s executive branch recommended Sunday that the bloc suspend around 7.5 billion euros (dollars) in funding to Hungary over concerns about...
Two-minute silence to mark the death of Her Majesty The Queen – GOV.UK
Two-minute silence to mark the death of Her Majesty The Queen GOV.UK...
Living with Our Pandemic Trade-Offs
Isaiah Berlin, the twentieth-century philosopher, spent much of his life arguing that we can’t have it all. In any weighty societal matter, worthwhile values invariably...
Will inflation continue to increase? Yes says a Duke finance professor who explains why
At first glance, the August consumer price index (CPI) report, versus the fever raging over the past few months, didn’t look catastrophic. The headline reading...
5 Stocks Making the Most of Supply-Chain Issues
The economic banishment of all things Russian. Tariffs on Chinese imports. Pandemic-caused shortages of computer chips, bicycles, garage door parts and other imports. Brexit. Just...