HONG KONG: China has punished video platforms including Alibaba-backed Youku and Baidu-backed iQiyi for carrying "low taste" content in a renewed effort to clean up the Internet, a pornography watchdog said. Authorities have outlawed more than 12,000 websites and deleted 8.4 billion pieces of ...
U.S. buyout fund Bain Capital said on Thursday it had extended its deadline for a US$1 billion buyout offer for Japanese nursing home operator Nichiigakkan Co for a second time.
Alphabet Inc's Google said on Wednesday it has shut down its cloud project named "Isolated Region" and added that it was not weighing options to offer its cloud platform in China.
TikTok's exit from Hong Kong was met with a shrug among many locals who distrust the Chinese social media platform, but the app had been embraced by many foreign domestic workers as a way to creatively escape the drudgery of their toil.
Ford Motor Co said on Thursday that its China vehicle sales rose 3per cent between April and June this year from a year earlier to 158,589 units.
MELBOURNE: Oil prices barely moved in early trade on Thursday as positive momentum from signs of a recovery in U.S. gasoline demand was tempered by concerns about renewed lockdowns with COVID-19 infections surging in the United States. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were ...
TOKYO: The COVID-19 crisis has prompted Japan to ease regulations on remote medical treatment, creating an opening for tech companies and offering a glimpse of the future of healthcare in the world's most rapidly ageing society. As coronavirus cases spiked in April, Japan temporarily eased ...
The dollar nursed losses against most currencies on Thursday as a rally in riskier assets such as global equities and commodities put a dent in safe-haven demand for the U.S. currency.
Asian stocks were expected to rise on Thursday, as hopes of a robust economic recovery offset concerns over flare-ups in the coronavirus pandemic, and as investors looked ahead to earnings season.
Most ride-hail workers in Seattle are part-time drivers whose earnings are roughly in line with the city's median, a study of data provided by Uber and Lyft showed, defying some perceptions of drivers working full-time for little pay.
