The UK’s coronavirus furlough scheme will finish at the end of October, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed. At the No 10 briefing, Mr Sunak also set out how employers will have to start sharing the cost of the scheme. From August, employers must pay National Insurance and pension contributions, then […]
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s attempt to curb what he says is social media censorship is a political gambit and will not change the legal obligations of companies like Twitter and Facebook, according to legal experts. An executive order signed by Trump on Thursday (May 28) directs federal agencies to […]
Alongside police and troops overseeing enforcement measures, provincial leaders are running their own zealous campaigns to fight the virus in Indonesia BENGKULU, Indonesia: Indonesian officials are forcing social distancing violators to recite Koran verses, stay in “haunted” houses and submit to public shaming on social media as the country […]
BEIJING: Volkswagen said on Friday (May 29) it will invest around 2 billion euros (US$2.2 billion) in two Chinese companies in the electric vehicle sector, calling it “the world’s biggest market”. The German car giant said it will take a 50 per cent stake in JAG – the parent company […]
LONDON/BOSTON: Last month Zagg Inc, a Utah-based company that makes mobile device accessories, received more than US$9.4 million in cash from a U.S. government program that has provided emergency loans to millions of businesses hit by the coronavirus. The money was part of the US$660 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) […]
NEW DELHI: India’s coronavirus death toll passed neighbouring China’s on Friday (May 29), with 175 new fatalities in 24 hours taking the total to 4,706, according to official data. India, home to some of the world’s most packed cities and a creaking healthcare system, is emerging as a new hotspot […]
TOKYO: Curbs in Japan’s capital of Tokyo to contain the coronavirus are to be eased further from Monday (Jun 1), Governor Yuriko Koike said, citing the recommendation of an advisory panel. Cram schools, gyms, and theatres are among the facilities that will be allowed to reopen in a phased relaxation […]
BEIJING: China will attack Taiwan if there is no other way of stopping it from becoming independent, one of the country’s most senior generals said on Friday (May 29), a rhetorical escalation between China and the democratically ruled island Beijing claims as its own. Speaking at Beijing’s Great Hall of […]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s government warned Washington that withdrawing its special US status, which has underpinned the city as a global financial hub, could be a “double-edged sword” and urged the United States to stop interfering in internal affairs. The statement came as US President Donald Trump is due to […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said he will give a press conference on Friday (May 29) on China amid spiraling US-Chinese tensions over Hong Kong and the coronavirus fallout. “We’ll be announcing tomorrow what we’re doing with respect to China,” he told reporters at an Oval Office meeting on Thursday, […]