SYDNEY: Australia’s Victoria state – the epicentre of the country’s COVID-19 outbreak – on Friday (Oct 23) reported that active coronavirus cases have fallen to a four-month low, paving the way for an acceleration in the easing of social distancing curbs. The nation’s second-most populous state, which recorded just one […]
Day: October 22, 2020
SHANGHAI: China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd reported a 9.9 per cent rise in nine-month revenue on Friday, as US export restrictions and the global COVID-19 pandemic weakened sales growth in products such as smartphones and telecoms equipment. Revenue reached 671.3 billion yuan (US$100.44 billion) over January-September, it said in a […]
NASHVILLE: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden renewed his attacks on President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic at Thursday’s (Oct 22) final debate, seeking to bolster his lead in opinion polls with 12 days to go to the Nov 3 election. Trump, a Republican, initially adopted a more restrained […]
In June 2020, an open letter was published calling on the UK’s film and TV industry to “tackle structural and systemic racism” in broadcasting and film-making. Among the things the letter asked for was black and brown independent producers to be empowered and for the lack of diversity on productions […]
KANNAPOLIS: A North Carolina man indicted last month on child pornography charges had searched earlier this year for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s home online, travelled near the home and wrote a checklist that ended with the word “execute”, according to federal court documents. The information was contained in documents […]
Australian police have arrested 44 men across the nation on suspicion of possessing and producing child abuse material. Sixteen children had been “removed from harm” in the process, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said. The arrests followed a year-long investigation into images and videos that were shared online. Arrests of […]
WASHINGTON: Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of threatening emails aimed at US voters because of mistakes made in a video attached to some of the messages, according to four people familiar with the matter. Those failures provided […]
SINGAPORE: The number of Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats sold in the resale market in the third quarter rose by 127.3 per cent after the lifting of Singapore’s “circuit breaker” in June. Official figures released on Friday (Oct 23) showed that 7,787 flats were sold from July to September […]
WASHINGTON: Goldman Sachs on Thursday (Oct 22) said it was clawing back US$174 million in executive compensation and had agreed to pay US$2.9 billion over its role in Malaysia’s 1MDB corruption scandal, lifting a cloud that has hung over the bank for years. The settlement with the US Department of […]
US regulators have given full approval for the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat Covid-19 patients in hospitals. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Veklury, the drug’s brand name, cut the recovery time on average by five days during clinical trials. “Veklury is the first treatment for COVID-19 to […]