TOKYO: Minimalist lifestyle brand Muji’s US subsidiary has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, its Japanese owner Ryohin Keikaku said on Friday (Jul 10), joining the list of casualties from the coronavirus pandemic. Ryohin Keikaku said Muji aims to close unprofitable stores and renegotiate rents in the United States, where […]
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SHANGHAI: Four cities along China’s Yangtze river have declared top-level flood warnings over the past two days after torrential rain triggered landslides and inundated roads and farmland, with parts of the river threatening to burst its banks. The “red alerts” in Xianning and Jingzhou in Hubei province and Nanchang and […]
HANOI: The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted about 31 million workers in Vietnam, with 900,000 out of work and nearly 18 million people receiving less income than before, a government agency said on Friday (Jul 10). If solutions to drive business activity were not immediately implemented, […]
NEW DELHI: When Chandana Hiran was a child, strangers would urge her to lighten her skin. Today the Indian student is leading a campaign against whitening creams as global anti-racism protests highlight the obsession with fair complexions for many in Asia. The campaign achieved its first victory when cosmetics giant […]
BANGKOK: US Army Chief of Staff General James McConville met with Thailand’s prime minister and its army chief on Friday (Jul 10), in the first high-level visit by a foreign delegation to Thailand since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted international travel. McConville met with Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and also Thai […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police on Friday (Jul 10) called in a group of Australian journalists from Al Jazeera for questioning over a documentary about the arrest of migrants, as the broadcaster expressed shock at the investigation. The probe into the Qatar-based network’s programme has added to concerns about a widening […]
MELBOURNE: Australia’s national cabinet met on Friday (Jul 10) to discuss slowing the number of citizens allowed to return to the country from overseas, as authorities grapple with a COVID-19 outbreak in the country’s second most populous state. Victoria reimposed lockdowns in the country’s second largest city, Melbourne, on Thursday […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s former prime minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained “flat-footed” in its response to pandemics it faces future economic, social and political crisis, after she was appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to lead a review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO […]
ANAHEIM, California: Disney’s California theme park reopening may have been thwarted by coronavirus, but hundreds lined up early on Thursday (Jul 9) to buy Mickey Mouse merchandise from an adjacent shopping plaza. Downtown Disney District – which borders the world-famous Disneyland and Disney California Adventure theme parks near Los Angeles […]
WASHINGTON: Record-breaking coronavirus cases and deaths in several US states are dimming hopes of economic recovery, with cellphone data showing shoppers are staying away from stores in areas where cases are rising the most. In Arizona, Texas, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, which were among the first states to reopen […]