Markets

The Japanese government has decided to temporarily halt its use of popular messaging app Line, owned by SoftBank Corp's Z Holdings, to handle sensitive information, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said on Monday.

South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co plans to temporarily suspend production at its Ulsan No.1 plant in South Korea due to chip shortage between Apr 5 and Apr13, Korea Economic Daily reported on Monday, citing the auto industry.

Emirates said on Monday that more than 85 per cent of its pilots and cabin crew had been administered both doses of a coronavirus vaccine.

An unlikely figure helped set the spark for SoftBank Group Corp's US$9 billion deal to take WeWork public.

Carmaker Stellantis will halt production at its plant in Melfi, southern Italy for the period April 2-12 because of low demand triggered by the COVID-19 crisis, the UILM union said on Monday.

The stranding of a container ship in the Suez Canal has created disruptions in the global shipping industry that could take weeks and possibly months to clear, top container shipping lines said.

Rolls-Royce said it had started building its new greener UltraFan engine and aims to have the first demonstrator model completed by the end of the year, in what it hopes will be a boost to both it and the environment.

U.S. e-commerce group Amazon on Monday said deliveries were unaffected by strikes at six of its sites in Germany.

SAN FRANCISCO: Visa said on Monday (Mar 29) that it will allow the use of the cryptocurrency USD Coin to settle transactions on its payment network, the latest sign of growing acceptance of digital currencies by the mainstream financial industry. Visa has launched the pilot programme with payment ......

Johnson & Johnson is coming under fire from some investors who are raising questions about companies that give their chief executives hefty pay raises despite facing billions of dollars in legal costs over their role in the U.S. opioid crisis.