HONG KONG: Hong Kong cut its economic outlook for the year on Friday (Aug 14), saying a recovery from recession depended on how fast it can get a new wave of coronavirus infections under control. The territory’s government revised its full year gross domestic product forecast to a contraction of […]
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SHANGHAI: Chinese shoppers on Friday (Aug 14) expressed dismay at news that traces of the coronavirus had been found on imported frozen food, with some saying they would avoid the products. Two cities in China on Thursday found the virus in frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil and shrimp from […]
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has in recent weeks delayed approvals for mobile phone components and televisions of Chinese companies Chinese firms like Xiaomi are facing delays getting approvals from India’s quality control agency for their goods, five industry sources told Reuters, as the business environment deteriorates after a […]
BRASILIA: Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday (Aug 11) angrily denied the existence of fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling it a “lie”, despite data produced by his own government showing that thousands of fires are surging across the region. Bolsonaro last year similarly denied a spike in fires that […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand officials are investigating the possibility that its first Covid-19 cases in more than three months were imported by freight, as the country plunged back into lockdown today. The discovery of four infected family members in Auckland led Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to swiftly reimpose tight restrictions on […]
SEOUL: South Korea and the United States will kick off their annual joint military drills this week but without mobilising US-based troops after scaling back the programme due to COVID-19 concerns, South Korean media reported on Wednesday (Aug 12). The allies have been discussing how to adjust the exercises, which […]
SYDNEY: Australia recorded its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic today and the biggest daily rise in infections in three days, denting hopes that a second wave gripping the state of Victoria may be stabilising. Victoria reported 21 deaths — two more than the previous deadliest days earlier this week […]
SYDNEY: Australia recorded its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic today and the biggest daily rise in infections in three days, denting hopes that a second wave gripping the state of Victoria may be stabilising. Victoria reported 21 deaths — two more than the previous deadliest days earlier this week […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today delayed a key step toward next month’s general election, as the country was plunged back into lockdown after the discovery of the first Covid-19 cases in more than three months. Ardern said she was suspending the dissolution of parliament, which was due […]
WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday (Aug 11), a landmark pick that puts the senator in contention to become America’s first female, and first black vice-president. The daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, Harris is also the first […]