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Italy's medical diagnostic group Diasorin said on Tuesday it aims to launch a new serological test to detect antibodies in patients infected with the new coronavirus by the end of April.

An Indian retail group has asked a court to allow the restart of an antitrust investigation into Amazon.com Inc and a Walmart unit that is on hold following a legal challenge by the companies, a court filing seen by Reuters showed.

SINGAPORE: WhatsApp is imposing tighter restrictions on how many times users can forward a message, in its latest effort to minimise the spread of misinformation.  For any message that is deemed “highly forwarded”, users will now only be able to forward it to one chat (person or group), announced ......

UOB will close 24 branches in Singapore from April 11 to May 4 as fewer customers are expected with stricter safe distancing measures in place, said the lender in a statement on Tuesday. 

DBS Bank has again doubled the quantum of its digital business loan for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to S$200,000, to give firms access to more substantial working capital to weather the Covid-19 economic fall-out.

Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air is repatriating citizens and transporting medical equipment for east European governments, in a move coupling one-off charter traffic with savvy government relations amid the coronavirus crisis.

MUMBAI: Police in India lodged a case this week against an unknown online fraudster who tried selling the world's largest statue for US$4 billion, claiming the proceeds would be used to help the Gujarat state government fund its fight against the coronavirus. While the plot to sell the Statue...

Police in India lodged a case this week against an unknown online fraudster who tried selling the world's largest statue for US$4 billion, claiming the proceeds would be used to help the Gujarat state government fund its fight against the coronavirus.

BANKS will see their capital and liquidity requirements adjusted to help sustain their lending activities amid the Covid-19 pandemic, among other fresh measures announced by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in a statement on Tuesday.

BUSINESSES that qualify to defer payments for their secured property loans, as well as distressed property owners doing so for residential mortgages, will not be subject to thresholds set by the total debt servicing ratio (TDSR), the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Tuesday.