SINGAPORE: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will award Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) additional privileges as a Significantly Rooted Foreign Bank (SRFB), allowing it to operate more places of business. Standard Chartered is the first bank to qualify as a Significantly Rooted Foreign Bank, MAS said in a news release […]
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NEW YORK: The St Louis Cardinals, already facing multiple COVID-19 cases that wiped out their weekend Major League Baseball games, expect more positive results from testing on Sunday (Aug 2), ESPN reported. The Cardinals said in a statement they do not expect an update on test results before Monday and […]
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s public healthcare system, considered among the world’s most advanced when it was launched, is being pushed to the brink by the coronavirus pandemic, which has exposed the impact of years of under-funding and mismanagement. As Brazil closes in on 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 – the second […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has agreed to give China’s ByteDance 45 days to negotiate a sale of popular short-video app TikTok to Microsoft Corp, two people familiar with the matter said on Sunday (Aug 3). US officials have said TikTok under its Chinese parent poses a national risk because of […]
TOKYO: Japan’s factory activity contracted at the slowest pace in five months in July, in a sign that pressures on manufacturers were easing somewhat and raising hopes that the worst impact from the coronavirus pandemic was over. Gross domestic product data out later this month is expected to show the […]
SYDNEY: Some of Australia’s top women’s cricketers on Monday (Aug 3) blasted a decision by India to schedule its T20 Challenge during the Big Bash League as a “huge shame” and “sad for the game”. Indian cricket bosses on Sunday said the women’s T20 Challenge will take place in the […]
Washington – Danielle Kang held off France’s Celine Boutier over the final holes on Sunday (Aug 2) to win the LPGA Drive On Championship, the tour’s first tournament since February after a COVID-19 shutdown. It was the fourth career title for the 27-year-old American, whose first win was a major, […]
LEEDS: Israel Folau’s decision not to kneel down with his team mates before Sunday’s Super League match between his Catalan Dragons and St Helens was a “personal choice”, his coach Steve McNamara said. The former Australia rugby union international remained standing as other players and match officials “took a knee” […]
WASHINGTON: The US notched 47,508 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours on Sunday (Aug 2), according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. There were also 515 new deaths, the Baltimore-based university real-time count at 8.30pm local time. Sunday’s toll was a slight dip, as the previous five days had […]
WELLINGTON: Dan Carter has conceded he might not appear for the Auckland Blues at all in Super Rugby Aotearoa, with the side only having one more game remaining in domestic competition. The 112-test former All Blacks flyhalf, 38, signed for the Blues as injury cover and had been pencilled in […]