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South Africa's health regulator, on Saturday, recommended that the government lift the pause on administering drugmaker Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccines, given that certain conditions are met.

Like millions of people around the world, Yuri Nekrasov stopped going to the grocery store every day last year when authorities in Moscow enforced a coronavirus lockdown.

After decades of falling corporate tax revenues, US President Joe Biden also needs to shore up business investment and innovation, and look beyond raising corporate taxes, says Daron Acemoglu.

SINGAPORE: Continued interest from foreign buyers, family offices and institutional funds has sustained demand for shophouses in the first quarter of 2021, following a strong burst of buying activity at the end of last year.   There were 51 transactions in the first quarter of this year ...

HONG KONG: Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake in the financial technology giant and give up control, as meetings with Chinese regulators signalled to the company that the move could help draw a line under Beijing's scrutiny of its business, according to...

TOKYO: Japan's Renesas Electronics resumed production on Saturday (Apr 17) at a chip plant that had been damaged in a fire, worsening a global shortage of semiconductors used in cars, smartphones and appliances. The plant resumed operations at 9am local time, two days earlier than originally ...

WASHINGTON: The US Treasury Department on Friday (Apr 16) said Vietnam, Switzerland and Taiwan tripped its thresholds for possible currency manipulation under a 2015 US trade law, but refrained from formally branding them as manipulators. In the first semi-annual foreign exchange report issued by ...

FINCH Capital-backed payments firm Nomu Pay has agreed to acquire Wirecard's Asia-Pacific entities in Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand for an undisclosed sum.

FOR many executives, jetting off from city to city for business meetings has always been par for the course, at least before Covid-19 struck.

SINGAPORE: Thai Beverage said on Friday (Apr 16) it was postponing the plan to sell a 20 per cent stake in its regional beer business through a US$2 billion Singapore listing, citing a volatile and uncertain outlook aggravated by a worsening COVID-19 pandemic. The spin-off by the company ...