HONG KONG – Macau carried out mass testing of its 700,000 residents on Tuesday after the emergence of COVID–19 cases in the past week, including at a major casino that prompted authorities to seal 1,500 people inside. All residents in the world’s biggest gambling hub have been told to take a ...
Windfall taxes on energy companies could be raised to 30 per cent and extended as much as three years, as Downing Street to scrambles to fill a £40bn black hole in the UK’s finances. The new Government is eager reassure ...
Elon Musk has appointed himself CEO of Twitter and dissolved its board of directors, it was revealed in a company filing on Monday, as Twitter employees brace for extensive layoffs under a new restructuring that could target up to a ...
A rise in unemployment above pre-pandemic levels next year will intensify the squeeze on household finances, which is already at its worst since the Second World War, a think tank says. The jobless rate has fallen from 4 per cent ...
More than a third of businesses in the hospitality industry risk going bust early next year as running costs and dwindling consumer confidence push them to the brink. According to an analysis of a survey by four leading trade bodies, ...
JAKARTA – Indonesia‘s food and drug agency said on Monday it had revoked licenses for syrup-type drug production by two local firms for violating manufacturing rules, as it investigates the deaths of more than 150 children due to acute kidney injury (AKI). The decision by the BPOM agency came after Indonesia temporarily banned sales of some syrup-based ...
More than 10,000 spectators cheered as a team of UK-based competitors won £7.4 million. The victory was marked not by a goal or the crossing of a finishing line but the smashing of a monument by brightly coloured creatures. Tundra ...
KYIV – President Vladimir Putin said Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and a decision to freeze participation in a Black Sea grain export program were responses to a drone attack on Moscow’s fleet in Crimea that he blamed on Ukraine. Putin told a news conference on Monday that Ukrainian drones had used the same marine ...
MODHERA, India – Kesa Bhai Prajapati beams with a smile as he molds blocks of clay into jugs and vases on a potter’s wheel. These days, Prajapati, 68, from the village of Modhera in western India’s Gujarat state, has doubled the amount of earthenware he makes compared to ...
BEIJING – China’s COVID-19 curbs forced the temporary closure of Disney’s Shanghai resort on Monday, while production of Apple Inc iPhones at a major contract manufacturing facility could drop by 30% in November due to coronavirus restrictions, a source told Reuters. ...