WE are barely four months into 2020, but life before Covid-19 seems like years ago. As the epicentre of the disease shifts from Asia to Europe and the US, the human cost is growing.

The Chinese city of 11 million people that was Ground Zero for what became the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopened Saturday, after more than two months of almost total isolation.

The Chinese city of 11 million people that was Ground Zero for what became the global coronavirus pandemic partly reopened Saturday, after more than two months of almost total isolation.

CHINA is pushing its companies to get back to work as the number of new daily Covid-19 cases outside of Wuhan - the epicentre of the novel coronavirus - is dropping significantly.

BEIJING: China's GE, best known as a recycler of batteries for electric vehicles and producer of cobalt chemicals used in them, said on Sunday (Feb 16) it had been given a four-month licence to make disinfectant in coronavirus-hit Hubei province. The surprise addition to the product portfolio of ....

SINGAPORE (Feb 14): Land transport operator ComfortDelGro Corporation saw its earnings fall 12.6% to $265.1 million for FY2019 ended December, from $303.3 million a year ago. The decline was on the back of higher operating costs, which included provision for impairment in its taxi business. The gro...

SINGAPORE (Jan 31): The judicial managers (JMs) of Catalist-listed Epicentre Holdings have reported that the company is being investigated by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).  In a regulatory filing on Friday, the group says that it received notice...

SINGAPORE (Jan 30): Land transport giant ComfortDelGro Corporation has suspended all operations at 60%-owned subsidiary Nanjing ComfortDelGro Xixia Driver Training Co as a “precautionary measure” amid the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. Chinese authorities on Jan 28 had order the mandatory clo...

SINGAPORE (Jan 21) Lai Choong Hon, an executive director of AA Group, is being investigated by the Commercial Affairs Department in relation to an offence under the Securities and Future Act. No further details on the nature of the investigation have been revealed, the company announced. Lai was a...

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