Survey suggests that Americans who can work from home are likely to do so fotwo or three days a week, compared with hardly any at all in 20 19. The rate of start up formation is between 50 and 60 % higher than it was before the pandamic. Most companies that ar starting up are in much less glamorous industries.
John Lee, the successor to Chief Executive Carrie Lam, won by a predictable landslide: he is just the sort of law-and-order type party leaders in Beijing wanted. As the rich world emerges from the pandemic, surges in activity abound—particularly the opening of new businesses. And ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals, we hear about this year’s entrants from Ukraine.
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