Vietnam says Facebook should adhere by local laws
Companies like Facebook that operate in Vietnam should abide by local laws and fully implement their tax and social responsibilities in the country, Vietnam’s foreign...
Palestinian jailed in Gaza for breaking coronavirus quarantine
A Gaza court has sentenced a Palestinian man to six months in jail for escaping from a coronavirus quarantine facility on the Egyptian border, the...
Indonesia finds 357 new coronavirus cases, 11 new deaths
Indonesia on Thursday reported 357 new COVID-19 cases and 11 new deaths, taking the total number of infections and fatalities to 7,775 and 647, respectively,...
Zoom users top 300 million as ban list grows
Zoom video conferencing app’s user base grew by another 50% to 300 million in the last three weeks, as the company fought to quell a...
In Syria rebel stronghold, building makeshift ventilators to fight virus
A team of volunteers in Syria have cobbled together prototypes of a ventilator and a testing machine – homemade equipment to fight the new coronavirus...
South Africa’s itinerant wastepickers lose livelihood in lockdown
They perform one of South Africa’s most important services, collecting recyclables that would otherwise swell the country’s rubbish dumps and burden municipal trash collection, but...
China pledges $30 million more for WHO’s coronavirus fight
China said on Thursday it would donate a further $30 million to the World Health Organization (WHO), which is seeking more than $1 billion to...
Sweden’s Volvo hit by cancelled orders as pandemic creates ‘new normal’
Sweden’s AB Volvo on Thursday warned of stalling truck orders and a challenging adjustment to a “new normal” of feebler demand after reporting a smaller-than-expected...
For SoftBank’s Son, vision turns into illusion
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son’s dreams of a global tech empire are unraveling, as the ongoing global crisis compounds losses at his $100 billion Vision Fund...
Botswana’s president, lawmakers out of quarantine after testing negative for coronavirus
President Mokgweetsi Masisi and all of Botswana’s lawmakers have been released from two weeks in quarantine after testing negative for the coronavirus, a senior official...