Bloomberg Ireland is putting the army on standby to help alleviate staffing issues at Dublin Airport if the hub is hit by more shortages in the coming weeks. The army will be made available if needed to assist the Dublin Airport Authority during the peak holiday season of July and August, Transport Minister Eamon Ryan told RTE Radio. The ...

  Bloomberg Shares of Sanrio Co, the brainchild behind the Hello Kitty franchise, surged in Tokyo after the company signed a licensing deal with a unit of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd that will expand its reach in China. Shares rose as much as 15%, the biggest intraday gain in more than a decade, on trading volume more than five times ...

Bloomberg China urged Nato to abandon what it called a Cold War mentality after the military alliance said the Asian nation poses systemic challenges to security. Nato’s so-called Strategic Concept, a document on policy guidelines adopted at an alliance summit in Madrid on Wednesday, is “filled with Cold War thinking and ideological bias” and is “maliciously attacking and smearing China,” ...