Top executives and board members at commercial vehicle maker CNH Industrial will take voluntary pay cuts in an act of solidarity with the group's workforce during the coronavirus crisis, the Italian-American company said on Wednesday.
The coronavirus microbe has overthrown our arrogance and sent global output into a tailspin, says the Financial Times' Martin Wolf.
India has agreed to sell hydroxychloroquine tablets to Malaysia for use in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, a Malaysian minister told Reuters on Wednesday, with New Delhi partially lifting its bar on exports of the anti-malarial drug.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is under pressure to take bolder steps to soften the economic blow of the coronavirus, with calls from his political partners to hand out more cash to more people.
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's Vodacom Group said on Wednesday it will spend over 500 million rand (US$27.04 million) over two months to add network capacity as traffic surges across its mobile and fixed networks as people stay home during the national lockdown. Vodacom, which competes with rival ...
LONDON: The world will need more than one COVID-19 vaccine so drug companies must partner in the race to develop the weapons to fight the novel coronavirus, GlaxoSmithKline CEO Emma Walmsley said on Wednesday (Apr 15). GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi said on Tuesday they would develop a vaccine to ...
Shareholder advisory groups are divided over whether to endorse the management and directors at German drugs and pesticides company Bayer , according to recommendations submitted by proxy voting firms.
BEIJING: The coronavirus outbreak will have no impact on the progress of nuclear power plant construction in China in the short term, and reactors already in operation have not been affected, a nuclear safety official said at a briefing on Wednesday (Apr 15). Tang Bo, director of the nuclear...
Dutch navigation and digital mapping company TomTom said on Wednesday it expected a negative free cash flow in 2020 with lower revenues from its automotive and consumer businesses, in light of the impact from the coronavirus pandemic.
Worried about a "coronavirus divorce"? An enterprising Japanese short-term rental firm is marketing its empty apartments as a way for stressed couples to get some time apart during the virus lockdown.