In a cardamom field tucked above Rhenock town in East Sikkim, a farmer named Dawa Lepcha watched his neighbours across the border in Darjeeling spray synthetic pesticides on their tea gardens. It was 2014, and Sikkim’s state government had just told him — along with approximately 66,000 other farming families — that chemical fertilisers were … Read more
Posting a 12 per cent revenue lift in your first quarter as CEO is a reasonable way to silence early sceptics. For Henrique Braun, who stepped into the top role at The Coca-Cola Company after James Quincey’s departure, the numbers give him a platform — but they also set a high bar for everything that … Read more
Eighty-two per cent. That’s the market share two supermarket groups hold across New Zealand’s grocery sector, and it’s now the number driving a political push to break up the country’s food retail structure entirely. I’ve watched grocery reform debates come and go across the Tasman, but this one names specific structural remedies — not just … Read more
Ten governments rarely agree on anything involving Libya. Yet on 11 April, the UAE, the US, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and the UK jointly welcomed a single document that could reshape the country’s economic trajectory: a unified national budget for 2026. This is Libya’s first consolidated budget in more than a … Read more
