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Filipino teacher Raven Kate De Leon is in demand, spending up to 10 hours a day at her home computer surrounded by mini cars and stuffed toys that she uses as props to inject fun into her English classes for students far away in China.

Apple has dropped a two-device limit on online purchases of iPhones, a check of its web stores showed on Monday, just days after changing the checkout procedure amid a coronavirus pandemic.

Goldman Sachs said it expected global real gross domestic product to contract by about 1per cent in 2020, a sharper economic decline than in the year following the 2008 global financial crisis.

SINGAPORE: Singapore's main price gauge slipped into deflation for the first time in more than a decade in February, data showed on Monday (Mar 23). Prices fell 0.1 per cent from a year earlier, according to a joint release by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Ministry of Trade and ...

Hyundai Motor Group's heir apparent Euisun Chung bought shares in automaker Hyundai Motor and parts affiliate Hyundai Mobis for a combined 19 billion won (US$15 million), according to stock exchange filings.

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Sunday that the social media company has donated its emergency reserve of 720,000 masks to provide health workers with more protective gear.

Planemaker Airbus announced new steps on Monday to bolster its financial position as a coronavirus pandemic cripples the travel industry, including the signing of a credit facility for 15 billion euros (US$16.1 billion).

SoftBank Group Corp said on Monday it would sell up to 4.5 trillion yen (US$41 billion) in assets to fund a share buyback of up to 2 trillion yen and reduce debt.

McDonald's Corp said on Sunday it would temporarily close all its restaurants in the UK and Ireland by Monday evening because of the coronavirus outbreak.

A Senate Republican coronavirus stimulus package would provide financial aid to U.S. airports, transit systems and passenger railroad Amtrak, but US$50 billion for struggling U.S. airlines would be a loan not a cash payout, according to a copy of the proposal seen by Reuters.