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Cold-storage specialist va-Q-tec is significantly expanding its fleet of 2,500 rental containers to meet growing demand to transport COVID-19 vaccines that need to be kept as low as -70 degrees Celsius (-94°F), its chief executive said.

Recent COVID-19 lockdowns mean Ryanair will fly fewer passengers than planned this winter and Europe's biggest low-cost airline doesn't expect to return to pre-pandemic levels of service until next autumn, its chief executive said on Tuesday.

Quality is once again Job One at Ford Motor Co.

KUALA LUMPUR: Microsoft, Google and Facebook have asked Malaysia's Prime Minister to reinstate an exemption allowing non-Malaysian ships to carry out repairs to submarine cables in the country's waters, online news service Malaysiakini reported. Malaysia's Transport Ministry this month ...

SINGAPORE: More than 12,000 information and communications technology (ICT) jobs are available under the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Package to help boost a growing digital economy, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) in its latest jobs situation report on Tuesday (Nov 24). Since 2015, 17,000 locals ...

Bitcoin hit US$19,000 on Tuesday for the first time in nearly three years and was just shy touching an all-time high of just under US$20,000.

SEOUL: A new round of social distancing rules took effect on Tuesday (Nov 24) in the South Korean capital of Seoul, dealing a blow to small business owners despite brighter hopes for economic recovery after earlier success in battling the coronavirus. The measures range from closures of nightclubs ......

LONDON: Can you put a price on pollution? Some of the world's biggest economies are doing just that as they wrestle with how to make good on grand pledges to tame planet-warming emissions. Matters are coming to a head. China, Japan and South Korea have all followed the European...

BENGALURU: Toyota Motor again halted operations at its car plant in southern India, as the majority of members of its workers' union continued a sit-in strike, the automaker said on Tuesday (Nov 24). Both the Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) factories in the industrial hub of Bidadi, Karnataka, had ...

LONDON: Once the preserve of gamers, virtual reality (VR) has been seized on by the financial sector as a way of enlivening home working for lonely traders or isolated executives and replicating real-world sales, networking or training events. With 90 per cent of employees at some of the world's...