LONDON: Frank Lampard admits expectations at Chelsea will soar after an expensive recruitment drive ahead of the new Premier League season. The Stamford Bridge club have spent nearly £200 million (RM1.09 billion) as they have brought in on Hakim Ziyech, Timo Werner, Ben Chilwell, Thiago Silva, Kai Havertz and Malang […]
Year: 2020
BERLIN: After two consecutive draws which have left the Germany camp seething, head coach Joachim Loew has vowed to go on the attack with a full-strength squad in the Nations League next month. “We will really attack again in October,” said Loew as Germany sit third behind Group 4A leaders […]
LONDON: Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood have been sent home from England duty after breaching coronavirus rules, manager Gareth Southgate said today. Southgate revealed Manchester City midfielder Foden and Manchester United forward Greenwood would not be travelling from Iceland to Denmark for tomorrow’s Nations League match. Although Southgate refused to […]
LONDON: Britain’s competition regulator on Monday fined Amazon 55,000 pounds (US$72,364) after the US online giant delayed an investigation into its purchase of a 16 per cent stake in food platform Deliveroo by failing to provide documents on time. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) finally cleared Amazon’s stake purchase […]
French carmaker Renault will develop and assemble the next generation of partner Nissan’s Micra models, a senior executive at the Japanese firm said, as the two companies try to reboot their alliance with tighter cooperation in production. PARIS: French carmaker Renault will develop and assemble the next generation of partner […]
NEW DELHI: Doctors at one of the largest private Covid-19 facilities in the Indian capital say they are exhausted and facing staff shortages after nearly six months of relentless work. India’s total cases of the novel coronavirus crossed 4.2 million today, overtaking Brazil as the second worst-hit country after the […]
HONG KONG: Lawyers representing some of the Hong Kongers captured by the Chinese coastguard as they allegedly tried to flee the financial hub by speedboat told AFP today that they have been denied access to their clients. Mainland authorities announced a group of 12 Hong Kongers were intercepted some 70 […]
GUWAHATI (India): The Indian Army has asked its Chinese counterpart if five civilians who went missing from an eastern border state days ago were in their custody, an Indian military spokesman said today. Relations between the nuclear-armed Asian giants have hit a multi-decade low since clashes at their western Himalayan […]
BEIJING: Bottled water giant Nongfu Spring said on Monday (Sep 7) it is aiming to raise more than US$1 billion in a Hong Kong listing, as Beijing cajoles Chinese companies to raise cash at home. Nongfu, which claims to be number one in China’s massive bottled water market, is ubiquitous […]
Finnish telecom firm Nokia has suffered a setback after a source close to the matter confirmed it had lost out to Samsung Electronics on a part of the contract to supply new 5G equipment to Verizon in the United States. STOCKHOLM: Finnish telecom firm Nokia has suffered a setback after […]