Japan's Sharp Corp, an Apple Inc supplier, reported a 37per cent decline in annual operating profit and refrained from releasing an earnings outlook for the current year because of uncertainty over the novel coronavirus impact.
REUTERS: The United States will announce on Tuesday that it has signed a US$354 million contract with a company to make generic medicines and pharmaceutical ingredients in the country needed to treat COVID-19, the New York Times reported late on Monday. The move is part of efforts to bring...
BANGKOK: Thailand's Cabinet approved a plan to bring national carrier Thai Airways International to bankruptcy court for debt restructuring, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday (May 19). "It was a difficult decision," he told reporters at a news briefing. READ: Thai Airways to seek ...
Sony Corp will turn its financial arm, Sony Financial Holdings Inc, into a wholly owned unit through a tender offer worth about 400 billion yen (US$3.72 billion), the Nikkei business daily reported.
WASHINGTON: The U.S. government's handling of its massive economic response to the coronavirus pandemic will come under scrutiny on Tuesday as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testify before the Senate Banking Committee. Senators are expected to grill ...
SINGAPORE: Infrastructure consultancy Surbana Jurong has refuted online allegations that it is "profiteering" from the setting up and running of Community Care Facilities (CCFs) for COVID-19 isolation, including a facility at the Singapore Expo. "Our involvement in Singapore Expo has been most ...
Money trumped spying as the top motivator for data breaches last year, according to Verizon's annual report on cyber crimes published on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON: A White House advisory panel on Tuesday will call for the government and private industry to work together to build new technological infrastructure to support future jobs and provide the underpinnings critical to a solid economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, an official ...
WASHINGTON: Israel appears to be behind a cyberattack earlier this month on computers at Iran's Shahid Rajaee port that caused massive backups on waterways and roads leading to the facility, the Washington Post reported on Monday. Citing unnamed U.S. and foreign government officials, the Post said ...
In the eastern Chinese city of Yuyao, a group of five face-masked workers at a Geely auto plant, stood almost shoulder to shoulder behind an SUV as they conducted paint and other quality checks.
