The Japanese economy contracted at an annualized rate of 27.8% in the second quarter, as the world's third-largest economy was devastated by the novel coronavirus pandemic, a government report showed … Click to Continue »
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe went to a hospital for what Japanese media said was a regular health check-up, although the visit generated renewed worries about his health.
NEW DELHI — India's number of reported fatalities from the coronavirus has crossed 50,000 after 941 new deaths were reported in the past 24 hours. With a total of 50,921 … Click to Continue »
Lockdown did some funny things to people's eating habits. Take Glanbia's first-half results, for example. Lots of people took up baking bread, others did a major weekly shop with a view to home cooking - for the first time in years.
In a bid to survive, airlines are desperately trying to convince a wary public that measures like mandatory face masks and hospital-grade air filters make sitting in a plane safer … Click to Continue »
Thailand's economy contracted at a 12.2% annual rate in the April-June quarter, its sharpest downturn since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.
A five-year-old girl who was critically injured in a quad bike crash that claimed the lives of her mother and sister has returned home after three months in hospital.
