KYIV: A cyber attack hit the websites of Ukraine's president, security service and other institutions on Tuesday afternoon but they were working again by the evening, the state service for special communications said on Wednesday. It did not say who was behind the attack. Kyiv has previously ...
GENEVA: A United Nations human rights investigator called on states on Wednesday to impose economic sanctions on Myanmar's oil and gas sector to cripple the junta that took power five months ago. Thomas Andrews, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said that no state had imposed ......
SINGAPORE: Migrant workers from India will be brought into Singapore starting July under a pilot programme led by some companies in the construction, marine and process sectors. This will be done on a "small scale" and in a "calibrated manner", the business associations representing the industries ...
Global airline industry body IATA said that passenger air travel demand remained subdued compared to pre-pandemic levels, with figures showing it was 63per cent lower in May 2021 than in the same month two years ago.
Malaysia's low-cost airline AirAsia Group Bhd is considering a listing of its digital arm via a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in the United States to raise at least US$300 million, its chief said on Wednesday.
SHANGHAI: China's cyberspace regulator has launched a probe into ride-hailing giant Didi Global, calling for it to stop adding new users and for app stores to remove it, days after it went public in a US$4.4 billion New York stock sale. The move, followed by similar actions against two...
THE balances of Central Provident Fund (CPF) members grew by 8.7 per cent year on year to a record S$462.1 billion in 2020 from S$425.1 billion the previous year, the 2020 annual report of CPF Board noted.
China will launch a nationwide carbon emissions trading scheme for the electricity sector in July, the cabinet said on Wednesday.
China will use timely cuts in the bank reserve requirement ratio (RRR) to support the real economy, especially small firms, state media quoted the cabinet as saying on Wednesday.
Tokyo Gas Co Ltd, Japan's biggest city gas supplier, said on Wednesday it would start a demonstration test of methanation, a technology to help decarbonise city gas, in Japan by the end of next March.
