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A parliamentary panel on Tuesday authorised Israel's Shin Bet security service to continue using mobile phone data to track people infected by the coronavirus until May 26, prolonging an initiative described by critics as a threat to privacy.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has an ambitious Lantau Tomorrow Vision plan to ramp up housing but perhaps she should focus on the more efficient use of land instead, says CUHK’s Ngai Ming Yip.

SINGAPORE: The authorities will work with food delivery companies to see how they can adjust their operating models to better suit hawkers, Senior Minister of State for the Environment and Water Resources Amy Khor said in Parliament on Tuesday (May 5). "In fact we are already engaging them to see ......

Vehicle and equipment maker CNH Industrial said on Tuesday it planned to return progressively to full operations at most of its facilities around the world by the end of May, in line with the easing of coronavirus lockdowns.

MADRID: Unemployment in Spain rose again in April, pushing the number of people depending on benefits to a record 5.2 million as one of the world's strictest coronavirus lockdowns brought the economy to a halt. The number of people in Spain registering as jobless rose by 7.97 per cent in...

STOCKHOLM: Swedish cloud computing services provider Sinch AB said on Tuesday it would acquire SAP Digital Interconnect, a unit of SAP SE, for 225 million euros (US$245 million) in a deal that will boost its presence in the United States. Sinch, which has a scalable platform for messaging, voice...

France is hoping to deploy its state-supported "StopCOVID" contact-tracing app by June 2, the Minister for Digital Affairs, Cedric O, said on Tuesday.

French carrier Air France is to require all passengers on board its flights to wear masks from May 11 to comply with French government guidelines on COVID-19 protection measures.

SINGAPORE: Retails sales across almost all categories plunged in March but a few sectors were unscathed, most notably supermarkets and hypermarkets.  Figures released by the Department of Statistics (SingStat) on Tuesday (May 5) showed that overall retail sales in March declined 13.3 per cent ...

German fashion house Hugo Boss said it expected the impact of the coronavirus pandemic to be worse in the second quarter after it reported that sales fell a currency-adjusted 17per cent in the first, but added that it was seeing signs of a rebound in China and online.