Archive for May 26th, 2020
Japan gives up approving Avigan drug for COVID-19 by May-end – Kyodo
Japan’s government has given up on approving Fujifilm Holdings Corp’s <4901.T> Avigan drug for the treatment of COVID-19 by the end of May, Kyodo News [...] » More
Hong Kong’s leader says security laws will not affect city’s rights and freedoms
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday added to a raft of attempts by local and Beijing officials to provide reassurance that proposed national security laws would not [...] » More
Hong Kong demand for VPNs surges on heels of China’s plan for national security laws
Demand for virtual private networks in Hong Kong surged more than six-fold last Thursday as Beijing proposed tough new national security laws for the financial hub, [...] » More
THAI picks new board members, Piyasvasti returns
Former Thai Airways International (THAI) president Piyasvasti Amranand, widely recognised for his past success in leading the national flag carrier to recoup losses and begin [...] » More
Tourism and Sports Ministry seeks to lift domestic lockdown
The Tourism and Sports Ministry wants to ask the Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) to lift the domestic tourism lockdown starting in June, as the industry prepared for [...] » More
Quarantine hotels graft probe begins
The Defence Ministry is tracking down a group of people accused of demanding kickbacks from hoteliers to guarantee that their establishments would be chosen as quarantine [...] » More
‘No politics’ in decree stretch
Forestalling a second wave of infections, and not politics, is behind the government’s need to extend enforcement of the emergency decree as lockdown measures are set [...] » More
Samsung Group heir questioned by prosecutors over contentious 2015 deal
Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee on Tuesday was summoned and questioned by prosecutors over a controversial 2015 merger of two of the group’s affiliates, Yonhap News Agency [...] » More
China central bank resumes reverse repo operations after near two-month hiatus, traders say
China’s central bank will inject 10 billion yuan (1.15 billion pounds) into money markets on Tuesday through seven-day reverse bond repurchase agreements, breaking a near [...] » More
Beijing’s top envoy in HK calls on diplomats and business lobbies to back national security law
Beijing’s top diplomat in Hong Kong has called on envoys and business chambers to avoid doing anything that would undermine their interests as he urged them to back the [...] » More
HK needs national security law because it is ‘easy target for hostile foreign opportunists’: former leader Tung Chee-hwa
Former Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-hwa has made a strong appeal for calm over Beijing’s push for a tailor-made national security law for the city, trying to ease public [...] » More
Taiwan says it ‘isn’t giving up on HK’ as Tsai Ing-wen considers suspending special status
Taiwan’s mainland policymaker on Monday clarified that the self-ruled island would continue to support Hong Kong, after President Tsai Ing-wen said its special status [...] » More
China reports seven new mainland COVID-19 cases versus 11 a day earlier
China reported 7 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the mainland as of end-May 25, up from 11 a day earlier, the National Health Commission reported. The commission said in a [...] » More
Japan shares reach 10-week high, look past Sino-US tension
Asian shares crept ahead on Tuesday following an upbeat session in Europe and further gains in US stock futures as investors looked past Sino-US trade tensions to a [...] » More
WHO pauses trial of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients due to safety concerns
The World Health Organization has suspended testing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients due to safety concerns, WHO director general Tedros Adhanom [...] » More
