Redskins’ Peterson bullish on quarterback Haskins
Then-rookie Dwayne Hoskins posted a 2-5 record after taking over as the Washington Redskins’ starting quarterback in the middle of last season, but teammate Adrian...
China drops GDP goal, pledges higher spending as parliament starts
China omitted a 2020 economic growth target for the first time and pledged government support for the economy in Premier Li Keqiang’s work report on...
China’s fiscal revenue may maintain declining trend in second quarter: finance ministry
China’s fiscal revenue may maintain a declining trend in the second quarter due to significant economic uncertainties, although it may start growing in the second...
Germany’s confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 460 to 177,212: RKI
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 460 to 177,212, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on...
China to allocate $57 billion to environment protection
China’s finance ministry will allocate a total of 407.3 billion yuan ($57.22 billion) to ecology and environment protection in 2020, up from 390.6 billion yuan...
Hong Kong leads Asian shares lower as Beijing readies new security law
Hong Kong shares tumbled on Friday after Beijing moved to impose a new security law on the city after last year’s pro-democracy unrest, risking fresh...
Mission of Mercy: On duty at Japan’s ‘last-chance’ hospital for coronavirus
Two paramedics jump out the back of an idling ambulance with Tokyo plates, carefully lowering an elderly woman on a stretcher. The patient, her small...
South Korea’s Samsung Biologics signs $231 million supply deal with GSK
South Korean contract drugs manufacturer Samsung Biologics Co Ltd said on Friday it had signed a deal worth more than $231 million with GlaxoSmithKline PLC...
Japan’s elderly workers, once key to Abenomics, suffer as pandemic closes businesses
On a recent Saturday in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district more than 100 people, many of them elderly men, stood close together in a long queue waiting...
China says illegal hunting and trading of wild animals will be severely punished
China will severely punish the illegal hunting and trading of wild animals, it said in its government work report issued on Friday, as it tries...