China to US airfreight prices spike as coronavirus hits
TOKYO/BANGKOK -- Air and sea cargo fares have surged due to the coronavirus pandemic, with airfreight prices from Shanghai to U.S. and...
Month: May 2020
Banks face seismic transformation after virus earthquake
While the legal foundations are unsure, the signals for looser lending could scarcely be clearer. The BoE has cut capital...
Tokyo university startup develops coronavirus-catching fabric
MATSUYAMA, Japan -- Zetta, a spinout from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, also known as Tokyo Tech, has developed a nonwoven...
India’s coronavirus infections surpass China total
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -- India's total novel corornavirus cases rose to 85,940 on Saturday, taking it past China, where the...
Coronavirus upsets Japan 5G launch
TOKYO -- The coronavirus outbreak has upset efforts by Japan's mobile phone carriers to attract new 5G customers, forcing them...
Insurers ‘dragging their name through the dirt’ as thousands left without Covid-19 compensation
Faith in insurers could all but collapse as tens of thousands of people have been stuck in the middle while...
House buyers flood back into market after seven-week shutdown
Miles Shipside, director at Rightmove, said: “The traditionally busy spring market was curtailed by lockdown, but we’re now seeing clear...
Coronavirus: Vaccine and PCR tests are no panacea
TOKYO -- There is no such thing as perfect technology. And while there are growing expectations for a vaccine and...
Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka looks beyond center court
TOKYO -- People around the world remain hunkered down at home as the novel coronavirus continues to rage. Japanese tennis...
US pushes China decoupling, wiping billions off Apple and Boeing
NEW YORK/PALO ALTO, U.S. -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's new crackdown on Huawei Technologies' access to American know-how kicked off a new...
