TOKYO: Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp will stop investing in new oil development projects as it shifts away from fossil fuels businesses amid a global push to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday (Jan 24). The move comes as global miners and Japanese ...
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs said on Sunday it has received requests through diplomatic channels to help ease a shortage of chips for the auto sector and that it has asked local tech firms to provide "full assistance".
AMSTERDAM: Dutch airline KLM will keep operating long haul flights, including for vaccine distribution, after agreeing with the government on softer demands for returning air crews to carry out rapid COVID-19 tests. The Dutch arm of Air France-KLM said earlier in the week it would cancel all its ......
BRUSSELS: You're stuck in lockdown but that doesn't mean you can't visit a tropical island, a space station or have games night with your friends - certain video games have filled the need of the world's confined for a bit of distraction, adventure and socialising and achieved unexpected success...
LONDON: London will enjoy a very strong year for stock market flotations, analysts say, arguing that both Brexit and COVID-19 offer firms a unique opportunity to expand. Various big-name businesses that have seen booming online demand from home-bound customers during COVID-19 lockdowns have ...
WASHINGTON: When COVID-19 first swarmed the United States, one health insurer called some customers with a question: Do you have enough to eat? Oscar Health wanted to know if people had adequate food for the next couple of weeks and how they planned to stay stocked up while hunkering...
Britain's Boris Johnson presses Biden for new trade deal
SINGAPORE: Burgers may be a rare indulgence for some, but for 30-year-old Ivan Yee, he has them several times a week. The foodie estimates that he has eaten about 100 burgers over the past 10 months, proclaiming on his Instagram page where he shares reviews of his meals: “I can...
If he were alive today, even St. Paul would be texting, Tweeting and firing off emails to get the news out, Pope Francis said on Saturday in his message for the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Social Communication.
Mobile phone and internet services in Russia suffered outages on Saturday as police cracked down on anti-Kremlin protesters, the monitoring site downdetector.ru showed.
