FedEx Corp has cracked the code on how to hire in today’s tight labour market: higher wages, better benefits and more flexibility. Who knew? After offering those three things, the company received more than 111,000 job applications, the most in history and up from 52,000 in the week of May 8, Chief Operating Officer Raj Subramaniam said after the ...

  Less than three months into a coal output surge ordered by Beijing to paper over the cracks in China’s electricity grid, the signs of strain are starting to show. Emergency rescue services were rushed to an illegal coal pit in Shanxi province after 22 miners were trapped underground by flooding, one of the country’s worst mine accidents in months. ...

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc has more than tripled environmental, social and governance investments in Asia, stepping up efforts to meet a growing need from clients to limit their greenhouse gas footprints. The New York-based bank has completed nearly 15 investments based on ESG criteria in the past two years, up from just four during the previous period, people ...