Image copyright AFP American Airlines and China’s biggest carrier by passengers, China Southern, have agreed a strategic partnership. The US airline will buy $200m (£159m) worth of shares in the Chinese firm and the two will “seek to increase cooperation”. China Southern is the latest of China’s top airlines to bring in an investor from […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The man at the centre of the tussle: Lotte Group founder and patriarch Shin Kyuk-ho Four members of the powerful family behind the $81bn (£66bn) Lotte Group business empire have gone on trial in Seoul this week. Monday’s session was a rare reunion of Lotte’s 94-year-old founder Shin Kyuk-ho and […]
Image copyright Twitter Image caption Maurer was honoured by her co-workers and customers last Thursday A 94-year-old American is celebrating more than four decades of working at McDonald’s restaurants. Loraine Maurer of Evansville, Indiana, works two shifts per week, 44 years after joining the hamburger chain. The nonagenarian great-grandmother first joined in 1973 after her […]
