SINGAPORE: When asked to describe a typical lunchtime situation before COVID-19 at her fashion store, Butterflies & Marigolds, Ms Elsie Szto said with a laugh: “The store would be swarmed with women who are stressed at work.” Located at Guoco Tower – a skyscraper in Tanjong Pagar – a queue […]
Year: 2020
SYDNEY: Australia will extend its coronavirus loan guarantee scheme for small businesses and increase the credit limit to up to A$1 million (US$700,000) from A$250,000, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said on Monday (Jul 20). The expanded scheme, which will begin in October this year and run until June 2021, will also […]
LONDON: Nearly half of Britain’s biggest companies think it will take until the second half of 2021 before business recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey on Monday (Jul 20) that cast doubt on hopes for a speedier rebound. Accountants Deloitte said 49 per cent of chief financial […]
TOKYO: Just one in four people in Japan want to see the coronavirus-delayed Tokyo Games held next year, with most backing either further delay or a cancellation, a new poll shows. Only 23.9 per cent of respondents in the three-day nationwide poll published on Sunday (Jul 19) said they wanted […]
LONDON: Britain will on Monday (Jul 20) suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in a further escalation of its dispute with China over the introduction of a security law in the former colony, British newspapers reported. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who on Sunday accused China of “gross” human rights […]
TOKYO: Japan’s exports suffered a double-digit decline for the fourth month in a row in June as the coronavirus pandemic took a heavy toll on global demand, reinforcing expectations that the economy has sunk into its deepest recession in decades. US-bound Japanese shipments nearly halved again due to plunging demand […]
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler King Salman bin Abdulaziz has been admitted to King Faisal Specialist hospital in the capital Riyadh for medical checks, the state news agency (SPA) reported early on Monday (Jul 20). It said the king, who has ruled the world’s largest oil exporter and the close […]
FILE PHOTO: A sanitation worker cleans a bench outside the single remaining public housing tower under a lockdown in response to an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Melbourne, Australia July 10, 2020. SYDNEY: A surge in COVID-19 cases in Australia’s second-biggest city could take weeks to subside […]
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) launched its first mission to Mars early on Monday (Jul 20) as it strives to develop its scientific and technology capabilities and move away from its reliance on oil. The Hope Probe blasted off from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center at 1.58am UAE time (6.58am […]
MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s Health Ministry on Sunday (Jul 19) reported 5,311 new confirmed COVID-19 infections and 296 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 344,224 cases and 39,184 deaths. The government has said the real number of infected people is likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases. Mexican […]