After months of no magic, Shanghai Disney throws open its doors today. We will assess theme parks in the coronavirus era. Mixed we are looking at a , possibly positive start for asia. Lets go over to sophie looking at the markets. Sophie asian stocks setting up for a week delivering more Corporate Updates with about 500 companies on the msci aipac to respond this week. And the impact of lockdowns certainly how look growth will be impacted is going to be in focus. We will look at korean trade for may area so this one is edging lower, may. This one is edging lower. Chicago nikkei futures edging higher. The 10year yield adding seven basis points. Tracking the move we have seen of supplyelds pressures prelooking at the offshore yuan over 7. 09. It will bring us Monthly Economic activity data from china this week. Look at the pboc plans to strengthen Monetary Policy report and Pay Attention to growth and jobs on the mainland. Lets look at commodities this morning, oil edging lower after two
More on our website, bbc. Co. Uk news, and the news app. Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. Caught up in the hong kong protests, american Gaming Company Activision Blizzard reports its results after its controversial ban on players. The economic benefits of coffee beans. We report on a local community in sumatra. It is thursday. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Glad you could join us for another action packed edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. Lets begin with us Gaming Company Activision Blizzard, which reports its latest numbers later today. You might remember the firm for suspending the accounts of four players after they openly supported the hong kong protests. Almost immediately, the hashtag boycottblizza rd immediately, the hashtag boycottblizza rd started trending immediately, the hashtag boycottblizzard started trending on twitter, prompting some players to stop playing. The firms leader says they will stick with their band, but they will
We start with food and the impact our diet has on the planet. A regular report by the uns food and Agriculture Organisation is expected to confirm demand for animal based food meat and Dairy Products is continuing to grow. The livestock industry has grown around five fold since the 1960s. And that growth cant continue. Food production and consumption is already over a quarter of our carbon footprint. In three decades the worlds population will be approaching 10 billion sending demand for food soaring. Researchers say changing our diet is the biggest single thing we can do to combat Climate Change. Switching to a plant based diet would cut land use by over three quarters and halve the Greenhouse Gases produced by food production. So plant based alternatives to meat are set to become huge business, a 140 billion industry within a decade, according to one estimate. The boss and founder of one of the start ups in the industry beyond meat spoke to the bbc earlier this year when the company
Military reporters and editors conference, highlighting challenges of reporting on conflict zones. We were watching live coverage on cspan. What brought you there initially . So i had in my head that we should do a story first off, i should say i had an obsession that is probably selfdefeating for a reporter of always wanting to do the story other people are not focusing on. For instance, now everyone is focused on israel, focused on ukraine, and obviously i want to be focused on the things no one else is interested in, but i become stubbornly obsessed with things no one is paying attention to, and that was the case with niger. We went to benin first and were going to do a story of how the u. S. Military has a presence there, things people do not know about, military affairs, and then we were going to go to niger for the kinder, gentler side of what the u. S. Military is doing in that area, and we were going to show the Terror Networks converging on niger from all different sides with
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