Thailand’s Thonburi Healthcare Group Pcl (THG) doubled down on its outspoken chairman's claim to be buying Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines on Friday, helping its share price rise despite denials by both drugmakers.
SEOUL: South Korea's financial regulator asked fintech company Kakao Pay on Friday to revise its prospectus to raise up to 1.6 trillion won (US$1.4 billion) in an August listing, a move analysts said would delay the initial public offering (IPO). Kakao Pay Corp, backed by Chinese e-commerce ...
WASHINGTON: The Biden administration on Friday issued an advisory to warn U.S. businesses about risks to their operations and activities in Hong Kong after China's imposition of a new national security law there last year. The advisory from the departments of State, Treasury Commerce and ...
China's long-awaited national carbon emission trading scheme (ETS) made its debut on Friday with 4.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide quotas worth 210 million yuan (US$32 million) changing hands, Shanghai Securities News reported.
The Bank of Japan cut this fiscal year's growth forecast on Friday but maintained its view the economy was headed for a moderate recovery, a sign monetary policy will be in a holding pattern for some time.
SINGAPORE: Worries about business impact and the possibility of even stricter rules targeted at their industry are weighing on the minds of some nightlife operators here amid a growing COVID-19 cluster linked to KTV lounges. Cases tied to this cluster were first announced on Monday (Jul 12), when ......
Global shares held steady while U.S. Treasury yields hovered near multi-month lows on Friday, with markets looking to U.S. consumer data as the next test of the Federal Reserve's dovish rates outlook.
Oil prices fell a third day on Friday as supply concerns continued to haunt the market, with OPEC likely to add more barrels amid expectations that demand is returning as more countries recover from the pandemic.
BENGALURU :Indian digital payments leader Paytm, which counts Ant Group and Softbank among its backers, is seeking regulatory approval to raise up to 166 billion rupees (US$2.23 billion) in one of the biggest stock market listings in the country.
BEIJING: China on Friday (Jul 16) launched the world's biggest carbon trading system to help lower carbon emissions, but critics and analysts have raised doubts about whether it will have a significant impact. China is the world's biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that drive climate change ...
