There are different types of garage doors in the market that are waiting for their rightful owner. Commonly doors are made from three distinct materials, which are wood, aluminum, and steel. These materials are all very sturdy and perfect as garage doors. They are using those in making different kinds […]
Month: April 2020
Uber for grave visits? Tech fills unique niches in shut-in China
TOKYO — Strict restrictions China has placed on people’s movement to contain the coronavirus have spawned a throng of online services that were once unimaginable, from virtual grave visits to neighborhood maps of COVID-19 patients. As China celebrated its annual Qingming Festival in early April, people could not make it […]
HNA at point of ‘life or death’ as coronavirus dims revival hopes
HONG KONG — Companies do not readily admit reaching a point of “life and death.” So when HNA Group did just that in a social media post, it was evident that Executive Chairman Gu Gang’s attempts to deal with a crushing debt burden at the formerly acquisitive Chinese conglomerate had not been […]
Asian Development Bank’s growth downgrades are not downbeat enough
The annual Asian Development Bank economic outlook released on April 3 makes for grim reading. It forecasts a drop in the region’s growth from 5.2% last year to 2.2% this year as a result of the pandemic. There are multiple references to the global financial crisis of over a decade […]
Bad masks: China clamps down on suppliers after European outcry
BEIJING — As a global shortage of masks, test kits and other medical equipment draws a flood of new manufacturers into the field, China has toughened restrictions to weed out unreliable suppliers and products. Chinese-made medical products have recently come under fire in the Netherlands, Spain and elsewhere over substandard […]
For the sake of the young, this lockdown must end sooner rather than later
The burden of ‘righting the ship’ will be shouldered by the younger part of society How will the UK’s response to coronavirus affect people of different generations? Last year I sat on a House of Lords Committee considering ‘Intergenerational Fairness’ following government interventions after the 2008 financial crisis. While this may […]
Coronavirus threat sends Japanese mourning into digital mode
TOKYO — Japan’s funeral businesses are adopting digital tools in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic and the social distancing demanded to rein in its spread. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called on citizens and residents to limit the size of gatherings to decrease new infections after recent jumps in […]
Trump says WHO ignored Taiwan’s warning on coronavirus
NEW YORK — U.S. President Donald Trump doubled down on his criticism of the World Health Organization on Friday, suggesting that it wrongly dismissed a year-end alert from Taiwan over the new coronavirus. “Why did the W.H.O. Ignore an email from Taiwanese health officials in late December alerting them to the […]
New employment ‘ice age’ feared in Japan from virus turmoil
OSAKA — The economic upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic risks creating another lost generation of young Japanese job seekers graduating into a deeply scarred economy. The survivors of Japan’s employment “ice age” of the 1990s and early 2000s, many of them still frozen out of the regular job market, […]
China’s feeble construction sector dims outlook for GDP rebound
BEIJING — China’s economic contraction during the first quarter, the country’s only quarterly decline on record, came as the coronavirus epidemic slowed or idled many construction projects and sapped an industry regarded as a key engine for growth. The expansion of the China National Convention Center, 10 km north of Tiananmen Square in […]