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Gilead Sciences Inc said on Monday it has priced its COVID-19 treatment candidate remdesivir at US$390 per vial in the United States and other developed countries.

REUTERS: Online used-car seller Shift Technologies on Monday said it plans to go public later this year through a reverse merger with a blank-check company, as U.S. capital markets rebound after the coronavirus crisis forced companies to halt new listings. Shift's listing also highlights the ...

Gilead Sciences Inc said on Monday it has priced its COVID-19 treatment candidate remdesivir at US$390 per vial in the United States and other developed countries.

The Empire State Building has been a symbol of America's economic might for almost 90 years. Of late, it's also become a symbol of its struggle with the coronavirus.

Vietnam's economy unexpectedly expanded in the second quarter, shrugging off a coronavirus pandemic-caused global downturn, but it was still the country's slowest growth in nearly three decades.

BioNTech said Singapore's Temasek and other investors are injecting US$250 million into the German biotech firm through a private placement, reflecting heightened investor appetite for promising developers' vaccines against the coronavirus.

THE head of the UOB's TMRW digital group, which manages the bank's mobile-only bank operations under the TMRW brand, is leaving the bank. UOB said on Monday that Dennis Khoo will be leaving it to "pursue other opportunities".

The Indian unit of Amazon.com Inc has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across fulfillment centers in the country, in line with its target to weed out the packaging material by June, the e-commerce giant said on Monday.

SINGAPORE Telecommunications (Singtel) has launched an insurance savings plan on its Dash app. The plan has no lock-in period and no penalties for withdrawals.

The number of properties in the United States in danger of flooding this year is 70per cent higher than government data estimates, research released on Monday shows, with at-risk hot spots in Houston, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.