Furlough exclusion leaves new mothers facing income blackhole
Thousands of new mothers who cannot find childcare risk losing their job or facing a sudden drop in income because...
Day: June 10, 2020
SoftBank conducts 44,000 antibody tests; 0.43% come back positive
TOKYO -- SoftBank Group on Tuesday revealed the results of 44,066 coronavirus antibody tests conducted on its employees and their...
BYD to scale up new ‘blade battery’ production to challenge CATL
Chinese electric carmaker BYD Co. Ltd. has pledged an eightfold increase in the production of its new type of lithium...
Coronavirus latest: South Korea joblessness at 10-year high
The Nikkei Asian Review is tracking the spread of the new coronavirus that originated in the central Chinese city of...
SoftBank’s $100bn Vision Fund to shed 15% of staff
LONDON -- SoftBank Group's $100 billion Vision Fund is shedding 15% of its staff following the investment vehicle's aggressive bets...
Japanese banks gobble up half of Fed dollar funding
TOKYO -- About half of dollar funding provided to global central banks by the U.S. Federal Reserve in response to...
Abe softens stance on full-scale Olympics to avoid cancellation
TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has repeatedly vowed to hold the Olympics in a "complete form" next summer,...
China to start work on Hong Kong security bills June 18
BEIJING -- China will hammer out the details of pending national security laws to be imposed on Hong Kong starting June...
US chip software makers thrive in China with non-Huawei clients
TOKYO -- One would assume that American trade sanctions imposed on Huawei Technologies would have been a heavy blow to U.S. chip-design software...
Japanese banks gobble up nearly half of dollar funding by Fed
TOKYO -- About half of dollar funding provided by the U.S. Federal Reserve in response to liquidity concerns caused by...
