* Philippine stocks set for best day since Feb. 1 * S. Korean won, Taiwan dlr gain 0.3% * Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand closed By Arundhati Dutta May 26 (Reuters) – Philippine shares were headed for the best day in nearly four months on Wednesday i…
Renault-Nissan has told an Indian court it needs to continue production at its car plant to meet orders, rejecting claims from an employee union that COVID-19 safety protocols were being ignored at the factory, legal filings show.Renault-Nissan India and workers at its plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu have been locked in a…
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday that in a battle between fiat and cryptocurrencies, his support is with crypto.”The true battle is between fiat & crypto. On balance, I support the latter,” he said on Twitter in reply to a user who asked him what his thoughts were about people…
Taiwan raised its coronavirus alert level on Saturday in the capital, Taipei, and the city around it, bringing curbs for a period of two weeks that will shut many venues and restrict gatherings in the wake of 180 new domestic infections.
Despite its standing as the world’s most vaccinated country, the 115-island archipelago Seychelles is seeing a dramatic resurgence in COVID-19 transmission, bringing its daily case rate to “a higher number of infections per capita than India,” The Wall Street Journal reports.To date, approximately 67 percent of Seychelles’ population is vaccinated — the majority of those…
Emirates airline said on Sunday it will fly medical supplies from Dubai to nine cities in India free of charge from this week to help battle a devastating upsurge in the coronavirus.International aid has poured in for India, where record infection rates have overwhelmed hospitals, depleting medicines, oxygen tanks and other supplies. read more Earlier…
Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed is conscious after life-saving surgery, his family said on Saturday, as police made two arrests in connection with a blast they said was being treated as a terror attack.Nasheed, the president of the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party and the current parliament speaker, was critically injured after a bomb exploded as…
Updated May 4, 2021, 10:49am EDT Topline The value of dogecoin, a cryptocurrency originally invented as a joke, surged to an all time high of over 50 cents Tuesday, a landmark as enthusiastic online traders continue efforts to push the digital currency towards $1. Key Facts At the time of writing, dogecoin was trading at…
AstraZeneca recently said it had no engineers to assist in the transfer of vaccine technology. The statement by the company’s CEO was made during a shareholder Q&A. It has drawn criticism from campaign groups and other industry observers. See more stories on Insider’s business page. Health industry observers and social justice groups have criticized recent…
Warren Buffett. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sold stocks and reduced buybacks last quarter.The famed investor’s company cashed out a net $3.9 billion of equities.Berkshire also bought back $6.6 billion of stock, down from about $9 billion last quarter.See more stories on Insider’s business page.Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway was a net seller of stocks…