TAIPEI: Taiwan will from the start of next week ease border controls put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and will allow in business travellers from some lower-risk countries, though they will have to be tested and quarantined. Taiwan has never gone into total lockdown and life […]
Year: 2020
BEIJING/HONG KONG: Beijing-based ByteDance, the privately owned operator of short video app TikTok, booked around 40 billion yuan (US$5.64 billion) in revenue for the January-March quarter, said two people with knowledge of the matter. The figure represents growth of more than 130 per cent compared with the same period a […]
NEW DELHI: At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a “violent face-off” with Chinese forces along the disputed Himalayan frontier, the Indian army said on Tuesday (Jun 16), in the deadliest clash between the nuclear-armed neighbours for more than four decades. Both sides blamed each other for Monday’s clash […]
NEW DELHI: India impatiently awaited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s response on Wednesday (Jun 17) to the death of at least 20 soldiers in a border clash with Chinese troops as the country’s media vented its fury and political rivals goaded Modi over his silence. China’s foreign ministry confirmed there had […]
NEW DELHI: Indian newspapers, which just a few months ago had defied the global trend by gaining circulation, are now buckling under the weight of coronavirus losses that have killed some off and critically wounded other big names. Newspapers have remained a mainstay in the country of 1.3 billion people […]
FILE PHOTO: Men wearing face masks speak in front of an information counter at Beijing Capital International Airport as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Beijing, China March 16, 2020. BEIJING: Scores of flights to and from Beijing were cancelled, schools shut and […]
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) fell 4.5 per cent year-on-year in May after seeing unexpected growth in the previous month, mainly due to declines in the petrochemicals sector. This reversed three straight months of expansion, with total trade contracting 25 per cent in May, according to official data released […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Tuesday (Jun 16) removed almost 900 accounts associated with the far-right Proud Boys and American Guard, including those belonging to Proud Boys supporters who marched into a protest zone in Seattle Monday and confronted anti-racist demonstrators. Facebook told Reuters the takedowns of more than 500 Facebook […]
CHICAGO: US lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill on Tuesday (Jun 16) that would reform aircraft certification following two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes, Senators Roger Wicker and Maria Cantwell said in a joint statement accompanying the proposal. The measure seeks to eliminate the ability of aircraft makers like Boeing to […]
PARIS: A coronavirus contact tracing app being introduced in France may not be able to connect with others across the European Union because it stores data centrally, EU Commission vice-president Margrethe Vestager said on Tuesday. The EU has been hoping that apps developed by member states to track infections will […]