The New Zealand Reserve Bank announced in a statement on Monday that it has registered Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC) to provide banking services in New Zealand. ICBC will op
RA further 195 COVID-19 patients had died in the past 24 hours in Italy, bringing the country's death toll to 31,106, out of total infection cases of 222,104, according to fresh figures on Wednesday.
Modulr, the U.K. fintech that offers ‘Payments as a Service’ as an alternative to commercial and wholesale transaction banking, has secured £18.9 million in growth funding. Leading the rou
The U.S. state of New York will end its statewide closure on May 15 by reopening three regions where the COVID-19 pandemic has shown signs of mitigation, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Monday. Cuomo s
Thailand's Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) announced on Monday that it will release a full list of business and leisure activities which will be al
01:59 China's consumer market showed signs of accelerated recovery during the five-day May Day holiday that ended Tuesday amid further containment of COVID-19, the Ministry of Commerce
A staffer uses a loudspeaker to remind customers to wear masks and maintain social distance at a Costco supermarket in San Mateo County, San Francisco Bay Area, United States, April 22, 2020. /VC
Nigeria began easing restrictions on Monday in Abuja, its capital, and Lagos, its largest city, marking the reopening of Africa's biggest economy after more than four weeks of lockdown.Nigeria has re
Parliament members wearing face masks arrive at the parliament in Rome, Italy, April 30, 2020. (Photo by Alberto Lingria/Xinhua)A further 474 people had died of COVID-19 in Italy in the past 24 hours,
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 28,236 lives in locked-down Italy, bringing the total number of infections, fatalities, and recoveries to 207,428, latest data from the country's Civil Protectio
Photo taken on April 21, 2020 shows the She-Wolf with Romulus and Remus statue in Rome, Italy.(Photo by Alberto Lingria/Xinhua)The daily death toll on Wednesday was 323, bringing the total to 27,682 f
A lot of restaurants have shuttered in the wake of stay-at-home guidance and government orders for non-essential businesses to close down, so a startup called Cheetah that provided a wholesale deliver
As more European nations are pondering next steps to ease restriction amid encouraging news, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday that the novel coronavirus remains "extremely dang
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 26,977 lives in locked-down Italy, bringing the total number of infections, fatalities and recoveries so far to 199,414, according to the latest official tal
Some countries and U.S. states are starting to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions and focus on fixing their battered economies.In Spain, the streets echoed again wi
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Sunday that beginning on May 4, the manufacturing, construction, and wholesale sectors can go back to work. They will be followed by retailers, museums, ga
Iran plans to reopen mosques in parts of the country that have been consistently free of the coronavirus outbreak as restrictions on Iranians gradually ease, President