Coronavirus latest: China’s air passengers plummet 52% in May
The Nikkei Asian Review is tracking the spread of the new coronavirus that originated in the central Chinese city of...
Month: June 2020
Tiananmen museum seeks funds to preserve crackdown relics online
HONG KONG -- The operators of the world's only museum dedicated to preserving the memory of the June 4, 1989...
Thailand’s condo market sinks as Chinese investment ebbs
BANGKOK -- Beijing native Bobby He has a dozen Chinese friends who own condominium units across Thai hot spots such...
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...
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,...
