Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced 663 new Covid-19 infections and 17 new deaths - the highest for new cases and deaths - taking SA's Covid-19 cases over 8800 and deaths to 171.

South Africa has been praised by the World Health Organization for acting swiftly and delaying the spread of the virus. However, we must guard against being complacent as we begin the gradual easing of the lockdown.

Iceland has the coronavirus pandemic better under control than most other countries. In an interview, Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir explains the next important steps for her country.

In an interview, medical historian Frank Snowden discusses how the coronavirus pandemic mirrors past outbreaks and argues that we must quickly apply the lessons learned today in preparation for the next disease.

Alcohol consumption is a problem in many African countries. In the island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, off Africa's western coast, many residents don't want to hear about, fearing it could damage the country's international image as burgeoning travel destination.

The World Health Organization is the most important authority in the global battle against the coronavirus. But doubts about the WHO’s leadership are growing, and not just in Washington. Is Director General Tedros up to the task?

Samsung Engineering said on August 16 that it won two petrochemical power generation projects worth 550 billion won jointly with PTT Public Company Ltd., a Thai state-run oil company. This has been less than a week since the Korean company announced a large-scale oil refinery building project in Oman worth more than 1 trillion won. The project calls for building a petrochemical plant and an electricity generation plant in Rayong, Thailand's largest industrial city 150 kilometers southeast of ...

LG International will expand its palm oil operations in Indonesia for the first time in six years. This is a move for the trading company to focus more on the food resource business. The company recently broke the ground for the palm oil plant. It plans to complete the construction by the end of the first half of next year and start producing 110,000 tons of palm oil a year. This is an increase of 30,000 tons from the current capacity. Back in 2009, LG International jumped into the food re...

The Thailand unit of Samsung Life, which has continued its presence in the Southeast Asian country even after most Korean financial service firms had withdrawn, turned to the black for the first time in 20 years. Samsung Life said on August 22 that Samsung Life Thailand's net profit for the second quarter was 340 million won. Given the Thai subsidiary is doing quite well in the third quarter, it is expected to post a positive net profit for the whole year. Back in 1997 Samsung Life establishe...

SK Engineering & Construction has won a large-scale petrochemical plant project in Thailand. The company said on August 29 that it clinched a deal worth US$210 million to build polyol plant within the Hemaraj industrial zone in Thailand's Rayong. This followed news that the company signed a $1.6-billion project to modernize an oil refinery in Iran earlier this month. The plant, located 150 kilometers southeast of Thailand's capital Bangkok, is commissioned jointly by PTT Global Chemical, ...

Global furniture and home furnishing company IKEA has earned 365 billion won in sales for the past one year in Korea. The company said that it would open a total of six stores in Korea starting with a second store in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, followed by Yongin (Gyeonggi) and Gyeryong (South Chungcheong) by 2020. Andre Schmidtgall, president of IKEA Korea, said on August 29 in a press briefing held in Bread Comma in Seoul's Yeonnam-dong that his company's sales revenue for the 2017 fiscal ye...

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering signed on September 4 a contract to build five very-large crude carriers bigger than 300,000 tons with Hyundai Merchant Marine. The price tag for the deal is estimated at 470 billion won, with an option to build five more. At the signing ceremony, Daewoo Shipbuilding CEO Jung Sung-leep and Hyundai Merchant Marine CEO Yoo Chang-Keun were in attendance with other executives. With the latest ship orders, Hyundai plans to upgrade its fleets. Earlier ...

The market value of LG Group companies has moved up to the third place after overtaking that of Hyundai Motor Group following Samsung and SK. Hyundai Motor lost out to LG after giving away the second place to SK Group in June this year. According to the Korea Exchange on September 6, the aggregate market capitalization (including that of preferred stocks) of LG Group's 16 publicly listed affiliates was 96,883 billion won as of the end of September 5. On the same day, the value of 16 publicly ...

Private-sector power generators are complaining mightily about the government's pressure on them to switch coal-fired power plants they are building into ones based on liquefied natural gas. That's largely because the government is mum about the sunk cost and other costs to retrofit the plants estimated to be as high as 2.6 trillion won. According to private-sector power generation industry sources on September 17, the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy requested to POSCO Energy, SK Gas,...

Chief executives of the nation's leading companies like Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and LG Display have made a request to the government to relieve the problem of labor shortage in the area of semiconductor and display. Kwon Oh-hyun, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, said on September 18 in a discussion session held in Kensington Hotel in Seoul's Yoido presided over by Minister of Trade, Industry, and Energy Baek Woon-gyu, "Skilled workers are in short supply in fast-growing industries...

As Korea and China are set to improve their relationship that was rocked by the controversy over the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system, Korea's tourism and duty-free shopping industries are raising their hopes of better days.The tourism industry believes that the Chinese government's group tour ban to Korea would be relaxed soon. A travel agency in Hebei posted an Internet ad recently for a group tour program to Korea in November at the price of 1,4...

"Realty Expo Korea 2018 to Unveil in Sept. This Year   Organized by Korea’s No.1 Business News Provider Korea Economic Daily FIABCI KOREA to Sponsor Jointly... Interest of 67 Member Countries Heightened REK 2018 Organizers Start Taking Applications... Foreign Exhibitors to Get Additional Discounts   Realty Expo Korea (REK), the global festival for real estate professionals in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, will be with you for three days between September 19th and 2...

China’s securitisation has been developing rapidly. To date, China’s securitisation market is already the largest in Asia and second largest in the world. Our structured finance partner Kingsley Ong (who is also the Secretary-General of ...

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”) is conducting further public consultation on the listing of companies from emerging and innovative sectors.  The consultation paper published on 23 February 2018 (the &l...

Many employers offer flexible benefits packages to their workforce. But the Age Discrimination Regulations have cast a shadow over some schemes, leaving employers and providers unsure as to how benefits such as private medical insurance should be ac...

As Russia prepared for scaled-down Victory Day ceremonies, coronavirus infections rose fast and Moscow's mayor suggested the real numbers may be much higher than the official count.

Belarus has announced that the next presidential election will be held on August 9 as the country’s authoritarian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka sought to play down the risks of the coronavirus pandemic.

COMMENT: Want to know how the PM felt about the idea of making the lockdown even tougher on the back of surveys indicating public support for such measures? Or why the Finance Minister lost the battle to open the wage subsidy...

A stray kitten climbed into the engine of a car in Otara, south Auckland, and ended up hitching a ride all the way to West Harbour, in west Auckland, where it was rescued and adopted by a loving family.It was early on Saturday morning...

div class="element-action-button"> SIGN UP TO OUR COVID-19 NEWSLETTER. SIGN IN OR REGISTER, THEN SELECT TOP NEWS STORIES A Ministry of Health review of previously turned down requests to leave compulsory isolation early on compassionate...

Police are warning Kiwis not to flout the law after hordes took to the beach today despite the country still being at alert level 3. The day started with a "mass" of surfers converging on Wellington's Lyall Bay, and as the weather...

A man has been taken to hospital after a he was hurt by a bull in Southland this afternoon.St John Ambulance tweeted that they had been called to Riversdale, 30 kilometres north-west of Gore, just after 4pm."Two vehicles attended...

More than 220,000 Somalis have been internally displaced due to armed conflict and natural disasters while facing deadly coronavirus since the start of 2020, the UN Refugee Agency said Friday. “UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, fears these multiple, compounding emergencies will lead to devastating consequences unless there is a strong and coordinated response from the […]

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Laba wasiir oo ka tirsan xukuumadda Puntland ayaa todobaadkan laga heley fayraska korona ee caalamka faro ba’an ku haya. Labada wasiir ayaa kamid ahaa dadkii sida weyn ula shaqeynaayey bulshada aadna ugu dhawaa gaar ahaan dhibaatadii ka dhacdey magaalada Qardho. Madaxweynaha Puntland Siciid Cabdullaahi Deni ayaa sheegay in wasiiradan xaaladooda caafimaad aad u wanaagsan tahay, […]

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Madaxweynaha Puntland Siciid Cabdullaahi Deni ayaa maanta shir saxaafadeed uu ku qabtey magaalada Qardho uga hadley xiisada colaadeed ee weli ka taagan deegaan Teegare oo galbeed uga beegan magaalada Gaalacyo xarunta gobolka Mudug. Madaxweyne Deni ayaa sheegay in ay ballan qaadayaan in ay xakameeyaan dhankooda, sugayaan amniga, waxaana uu dadka deegaankaas ee reer Puntland ugu […]

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L'international tunisien Hamdi Nagguez ne sera pas lib�r� cette semaine. Le tribunal de premi�re instance de Sousse a rejet� la demande formul�e par les avocats du joueur pour le lib�rer. ......

Le pr�sident malgache avec la d�l�gation bissau-guin�enne lors de la remise des dons de Covid-Organics, le 1er mai dernier. ......

Sur la base d'une mod�lisation, l'Oms estime que 190.000 personnes pourraient perdre la vie � cause du coronavirus qui infectera entre 29 � 44 millions d'Africains. ......

The African football legends provided inspiration for many during their playing days ......