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Levels of preparedness in the corporate world across Asia still vary widely from the best practices, to the minimally prepared, to the unprepared, says SafePro’s Ross Darrell Feingold.

BEIJING: China's manufacturing activity slipped in January, official data showed on Friday (Jan 31), as the country grapples with a new virus that has claimed more than 200 lives. Official figures released on Friday showed that the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for manufacturing, an early gauge ...

South Korea's SK Hynix , the worlds' No.2 memory chip maker, warned a new virus outbreak in China could pose a threat to chip production and said it would sharply reduce annual investment after posting a steep fall in quarterly profit.

Markets rose in Asia on Friday after the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over the deadly new virus sweeping China.

American Airlines Holdings Inc and its mechanics union announced tentative joint collective bargaining agreements on Thursday covering five maintenance and fleet service groups after more than four years of often bitter negotiations.

BANK lending in Singapore was flat in December from a month ago, according to preliminary data from the Monetary Authority of Singapore on Friday. 

It is still too soon to gauge the economic impact of the virus outbreak on China's economy, beyond the first three months of the year, International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said Thursday.

Nintendo Co Ltd CEO Shuntaro Furukawa said the gaming company has no plans to launch a new Switch model this year.

A US judge on Thursday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $344 million for false and deceptive marketing of pelvic mesh products used by tens of thousands of women in California.

SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) said on Friday (Jan 31) it will reduce capacity on some of its routes to mainland China in February due to the growing scale of the coronavirus epidemic. The cuts include flights to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Xiamen and Chongqing, some of ...