Oyo has placed thousands of employees on leave and furloughs for up to three months in the U.S. and several other markets as the Indian budget lodging firm contends the coronavirus outbreak that has c
Experts say it means there are "fewer obstacles for the immune system to neutralise the virus with antibodies".
Passengers undergo temperature checks at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, India, March 10, 2020. /AP Photo Editor's note: Erik Berglöf is a former chief economist a
An Iranian vice president said the United States cannot block Iran's request for a 5 billion U.S. dollars' loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for fighting
A medical worker transfers the body of a victim who died of COVID-19 at a hospital in New York, the United States, April 6, 2020. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)"Behind every one of those numbers is a
Countries are rushing to increase power generation from coal-fired plants to deal with the economic crisis unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic. But more than half of these plants could run into
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Tuesday forecast that the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and increase of oil supply will keep global crude oil prices
China will set up 46 new integrated pilot zones for cross-border e-commerce, as well as support processing trade with new steps and hold the Canton Fair online to keep
Neat, a Hong Kong-based fintech startup, announced today that it has raised a $11 million Series A to help small businesses do cross-border banking. The round was led by Pacific Century Group, with pa
"Our priorities are to ensure the COVID-19-free status of incoming uniformed personnel and mitigate the risk that UN peacekeepers could be a contagion vector and simultaneously maintain our operation
Editor's note: Dambisa Moyo, an international economist, is the author of four New York Times bestselling books, including "Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and
France has not yet reached the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s health minister warned Tuesday, while the daily number of new infections and deaths has r
Italy had seen the most deaths, standing at 17,127 among 135,586 confirmed cases.NEW YORK, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from COVID-19 exceeded 80,000 worldwide by
Just days after SoftBank announced that it would not consummate its $3 billion tender offer for WeWork shares that would have bought out some of the equity held by the company’s co-founder Adam Neuman
A medical worker checks the wound after taking off the ECMO machine used to support a patient's lungs at the Wuhan pulmonary hospital in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, April 5, 202
China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive Carrie Lam appealed to the public on Tuesday to support an anti-epidemic regulation that prohib
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling said on Monday she had recovered from a suspected case of COVID-19 after two weeks of illness."For last two weeks I've had all sympto