SoftBank risks triggering yen rally with T-Mobile share sale
TOKYO -- SoftBank Group's planned 4.5 trillion yen ($41.9 billion) asset sale has fueled fears in the currency market of...
Month: June 2020
400 years of British economic history have been reduced to crass Marxist caricature
The history of imperialism is taught today as a catalogue of outrages but such a narrow focus is not illuminating....
Himalayan clash: Modi warns India can give ‘befitting reply’ to China
NEW DELHI/BEIJING -- A tense military standoff between India and China over a disputed border in the western Himalayas took...
Nationwide restricts mortgages over fears homeowners will plunge into negative equity
Nationwide, the country’s biggest building society, has restricted new mortgage lending over fears that falling house prices could send borrowers...
Coronavirus latest: New York City to enter phase 2 of reopening Monday
The Nikkei Asian Review is tracking the spread of the new coronavirus that originated in the central Chinese city of...
U-turn on penalty for 70,000 freelance mothers ‘unfairly’ left with less Covid-19 income support
Freelance mothers who were penalised and left with less state aid because they took time off to have children will...
In a race against time, Japan builds up its cyber forensics
TOKYO -- It’s every CEO’s worst nightmare: Invisible invaders rummaging through internal documents, collecting private emails, salaries and even trade...
South Korea’s SK mass-produces Japan-grade etching gas
SEOUL -- South Korea's SK Materials has begun mass production of a crucial chipmaking gas at a purity level nearly on par...
France wants its tourists back
French companies face similar problems, but Znaty suggests that tax cuts could help mobilise private money for investment. “Enormous funds...
Coronavirus means women won’t earn as much as men for an extra 30 years
Women may have to wait almost a century until they earn the same as men as Covid-19 wreaks havoc with...
