Singapore adds $23bn of virus relief after flagging 4-7% GDP fall
SINGAPORE -- Singapore on Tuesday downgraded its growth projection for this year to a range of -7% to -4%, from...
Month: May 2020
Japan’s coronavirus response offers little clarity and few lessons
TOKYO -- Japan's state of emergency, imposed in early April over the new coronavirus, lasted about a month and a...
Reports of oil’s demise have been greatly exaggerated
In the US, the world’s largest oil-consuming nation, the same data shows road journeys beginning to approach pre-pandemic levels as...
The four steps the Government must take for Project Birch to work
But they will swiftly be followed by engineering, defence, aviation, and chemicals companies, and perhaps soon after that by retailers,...
Nepal wages war of maps against India in disputed area
KATHMANDU -- Nepal has issued a detailed map for the first time of a disputed area to its far northwest that...
Hong Kong warms to online commerce amid pandemic and protests
HONG KONG -- Kristy Wong, a 25-year-old marketing officer in Hong Kong, had never shopped online until the coronavirus pandemic....
Television is a fig leaf for the UK’s damaging digital skills gap
New data is due out this week and while it will show those numbers falling, it will still be a...
Coronavirus latest: India tops 6,000 cases for fifth straight day
The Nikkei Asian Review is tracking the spread of the new coronavirus that originated in the central Chinese city of...
Global oil market still reeling from price war and virus downturn
But ultimately, Russia’s risky geopolitical gambits, Saudi Arabia’s attempts to flood the market with oil, and the machinations of Opec,...
Macau gambling king Stanley Ho dies at 98
HONG KONG (Reuters) -- Macau gambling king Stanley Ho, who built a business empire from scratch in the former Portuguese...
