Elaine Kurtenbach

AP Business Writer

Industrial Media Unboxing Video

Industrial Media Unboxing Video

IEN Unboxed is a new show in which our editors unbox new tools on the market and discuss their features.

Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, delivers a speech in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Sept. 6, 2021.

IMF Board Expresses Confidence in Leader

She faced allegations related to data-rigging at the World Bank.

Employees of a private delivery company sort out parcels at a distribution center in Beijing, April 27, 2020.

Shortages, Shipping, Shutdowns Hit Asian Factory Output

Automakers and producers of IT products and other electrical machinery were the hardest hit.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, left, and Minister of Trade Tran Tuan Anh applaud next to a screen showing Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan holding up the signed RCEP agreement, Hanoi, Nov. 15, 2020.

China, 14 Others Sign World's Biggest Trade Pact

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership encompasses nearly a third of all economic activity.

NTT headquarters in Tokyo, Sept. 29, 2020.

Japanese Telecom to Take Mobile Business Private in $38B Deal

The buyout of NTT DoCoMo would be one of the largest ever deals of its kind.