US-China investment tumbles to nine year-lowon September 17, 2020Investment between the United States and China tumbled to a nine-year low in the first half of 2020, hit by bilateral tensions that could see more Chinese companies come under pressure to divest US operations, a research report said. Investment, both direct investment by companies and venture capital flows, between the two countries fell 16.2% […]
Buzz missing but IPL aims to bring normality amid pandemicon September 17, 2020After months of uncertainty due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the delayed season of the popular Indian Premier League will kick off in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday with a clash between defending champions Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. The 2020 edition of the world’s richest Twenty20 league was originally scheduled to begin on […]
Trump says coronavirus vaccine could be available in a monthon September 16, 2020PHILADELPHIA: Despite cautionary notes sounded by some US public health officials about that accelerated timeline, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said a vaccine against the deadly coronavirus could be three or four weeks away, Trump, speaking at a town hall hosted by ABC News in Philadelphia, defended his handling of the coronavirus crisis, and […]
China COVID-19 vaccine may be ready for public in November, says officialon September 15, 2020An official with the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday said that COVID-19 vaccines being developed in China may be ready for use by the general public as early as November. China has four COVID-19 vaccines in the final stage of clinical trials. At least three of those have already been […]
Donald Trump accepts ‘playing down coronavirus danger’on September 10, 2020WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump admits he tried to minimize the seriousness of the threat from COVID-19 at the outset of the pandemic in audio recordings released Wednesday from interviews with veteran US journalist Bob Woodward. “I wanted to always play it down,” Trump said in an interview with Woodward on March 19, according to a […]
China reports two new coronavirus cases, down from 10 a day earlieron September 9, 2020Mainland China on Wednesday reported two new coronavirus cases on September 8, after it reported 10 new cases infections a day earlier, the country’s national health authority said on Wednesday. The National Health Commission said in a statement that both cases were imported infections involving travellers from overseas, marking the 24th straight day of no […]
Ladakh face off: India, China blame each other for aerial firing amid border tensionson September 8, 2020NEW DELHI/BEIJING: In a further escalation of military tension between the nuclear-armed nations, India and China on Tuesday have accused each other of firing in the air during a new confrontation on their border in the western Himalayas. Hundreds of troops are in eyeball-to-eyeball proximity along the remote border, which erupted in a clash in […]
Afghan negotiators wait in Kabul as long-awaited peace talks face delayson September 7, 2020KABUL: The long-awaited peace talks with the Taliban face delays after Afghan negotiators pushed back a planned trip to Doha as logistical issues are still being worked on in the Qatari capital, a government and a diplomatic source said on Monday. After months of delays largely due to a disagreement over prisoner demands by the […]
King Salman tells Trump Saudi Arabia wants a fair solution to Palestinian issueon September 7, 2020CAIRO: Terming it as the main starting point of the kingdom’s proposed Arab Peace Initiative, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman told US President Donald Trump in a phone call on Sunday that the kingdom was eager to achieve a fair and permanent solution to the Palestinian issue, the state news agency reported. The leaders spoke by […]
Nokia takes a hit as Samsung secures Verizon 5G dealon September 7, 2020STOCKHOLM: Finnish telecom firm Nokia has suffered a setback after a source close to the matter confirmed it had lost out to Samsung Electronics on a part of the contract to supply new 5G equipment to Verizon in the United States. With this $6.64 billion contract win, Samsung has reinforced its position as a challenger […]