SEOUL: The de facto leader of Samsung Group, Jay Y Lee, appeared before a South Korean court on Monday (Jun 8), awaiting a ruling on whether new allegations including accounting fraud and stock manipulation will send him back to jail after more than two years of freedom. Prosecutors on Thursday […]
Day: June 7, 2020
LONDON: Williams driver George Russell completed a hat-trick of esports wins on Sunday (Jun 7) to knock Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc off the top of Formula One’s virtual grand prix standings with one race remaining. The Briton, who failed to score a point on the real racetrack last year in an […]
TOKYO: Japan’s economy braced for its worst postwar slump even as first-quarter GDP contracted less than initially thought, as the cornonavirus crisis slams the brakes on global growth and raises pressure on Tokyo to cushion the blow to business and consumers. Banks are doing their bit to help as lending […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday (Jun 8) that all COVID-19 measures in the country will be lifted from Tuesday, barring border closure restrictions, as the coronavirus had been eliminated from the country. The country would move to national alert level 1 from midnight on Monday, […]
SHANGAI: Six Chinese under-19 internationals have been banned from playing for six months and forced to write self-criticism essays after flouting COVID-19 prevention rules to go drinking late at night. The Chinese Football Association (CFA) suspended the six until the end of November and the players were hit with additional […]
WASHINGTON: The police department in the US city of Minneapolis will be dismantled and rebuilt, city councilors said late Sunday (Jun 7) after the death in custody of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests about racism in law enforcement. “We committed to dismantling policing as we know it in the city […]
SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) said on Monday (Jun 8) that it had secured about US$1 billion in credit facilities, in addition to the S$8.8 billion it recently raised from a rights issue, to help it weather the COVID-19 pandemic. Global airlines have taken a huge blow as curbs imposed to […]
LONDON: British protesters tore down the statue of a renowned slave trader on Sunday (Jun 7) and threw it in the harbour on the second day of weekend protests against George Floyd’s death. Footage shot by a witness showed a few dozen people tie a rope around the neck of […]
BANGKOK: Last month, a grandmother reported to the police that her 14-year-old granddaughter had been raped over the course of more than a year. The attacks, according to the child, happened several times at her school in northeastern Thailand, where she was reportedly abused by five teachers and two male […]
MADRID: Calling for racial justice, protesters rallied across Europe on Sunday (Jun 7), joining a wave of demonstrations sparked by the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of US police. A video of the incident with Floyd pleading for his life in Minneapolis as a white police […]