EasyJet urges Britain to keep quarantine rules for short period
Britain’s easyJet urged the government to keep any quarantine requirements on travellers arriving in the UK for only a short period, as airlines face a...
Frozen fare cold comfort for fishing industry battered by coronavirus
Frozen fish sticks and canned salmon have made a comeback as the coronavirus crisis keeps people home, forcing a change of tack for the fishing...
Singapore hawker won’t let virus write ‘tragic’ end to family business
Kristen Choong had accepted her family’s decades-old noodle stall in Singapore would likely fold when she retires....
Japanese telco SoftBank sees full-year operating profit stable at Y920 billion
Japanese telco SoftBank Corp on Monday said it forecasts operating profit will rise 0.9% to 920 billion yen ($8.6 billion) in the current financial year....
Yemen declares Aden an ‘infested’ city as coronavirus spreads
Yemeni authorities declared Aden, interim seat of the Saudi-backed government, an “infested” city on Monday after the number of coronavirus cases there jumped to 35,...
Roche’s U.S. gRED research head to retire, be replaced by MIT’s Regev
Roche said Monday it has hired a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor as the new head of the Swiss drugmaker’s U.S. research arm that...
World’s second oldest airline, Avianca, goes bust
Latin America’s second-largest airline, Avianca Holdings, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday after failing to meet a bond payment deadline, while its pleas for coronavirus aid...
Coronavirus sows doubt over bitcoin’s rally after third ‘halving’
As bitcoin investors brace for a long-awaited technical adjustment that will halve new supply of the cryptocurrency, the coronavirus pandemic has cast uncertainty over the...
For central banks, hope for precision fades amid pandemic uncertainty
Central bankers who have spent a generation researching how their words influence the economy and honing the craft of “forward guidance” are now effectively tongue-tied...
Stocks rise as more economies emerge from lockdown
Asian shares followed Wall Street higher on Monday as investors looked ahead to more countries restarting their economies, even as some reported an unwelcome pick...