Category: International

Vespa Wins EU Case Against Chinese Copycat Design
May 25, 2020 No Responses

Vespa Wins EU Case Against Chinese Copycat Design

Piaggio, the Italian company that makes the world-famous Vespa scooter, said Monday that it had won a legal case against a Chinese copycat design. “A design registered by a Chinese party has been declared invalid by the invalidity division of...
read more
Opinion: Dealing With Deadly Concoction Of Disease And Disaster
May 21, 2020 No Responses

Opinion: Dealing With Deadly Concoction Of Disease And Disaster

 By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General Today in India and Bangladesh, millions of people are hunkered down in shelters, many with masks on their faces – a chilling reminder of the COVID-19 outbreak that still grips the densely populated c...
read more
Vatican, Italy Resume Public Church Services
May 18, 2020 No Responses

Vatican, Italy Resume Public Church Services

Pope Francis on Monday inaugurated the full reopening of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican and Catholic churches across Italy as he held public Masses for the first time in two months.The inauguration was the latest move in easing of...
read more
Italy To Lift Travel Restrictions June 3
May 16, 2020 No Responses

Italy To Lift Travel Restrictions June 3

Italy’s government has signed a decree that will allow travel to and from the country from 3 June, as it moves to ease its coronavirus lockdown measures. It will also allow travel between the regions – which has so far...
read more
EU Diplomat Seeks Independent Investigation Of Coronavirus Origin
May 15, 2020 No Responses

EU Diplomat Seeks Independent Investigation Of Coronavirus Origin

European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has called for an independent scientific investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus. In a guest column in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper on Friday, Borrell called on China, where...
read more
Plug Social Protection Gaps In Developing Countries To Prevent Future Crises, Says ILO
May 14, 2020 No Responses

Plug Social Protection Gaps In Developing Countries To Prevent Future Crises, Says ILO

The COVID-19 crisis  has exposed devastating gaps in social protection coverage in developing countries, and recovery will only be sustained and future crises prevented if they can transform their ad hoc crisis response measures into comprehensive social pr...
read more
WHO: Coronavirus May Never Go Away
May 14, 2020 No Responses

WHO: Coronavirus May Never Go Away

The coronavirus “may never go away”, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Speaking at a briefing on Wednesday, WHO emergencies director Dr Mike Ryan warned against trying to predict when the virus would disappear. He added that even if.....
read more
COSCO, Firm Complete Trial Of 5G Smart Seaports
May 12, 2020 No Responses

COSCO, Firm Complete Trial Of 5G Smart Seaports

An automated driverless truck for containers on Monday delivered containers to load a containership and collected unloaded containers from the vessel at the Port of Xiamen, passing a trial run as part of a project aimed at developing 5G smart...
read more
Mazda Seeks $2.8b Loans
May 11, 2020 No Responses

Mazda Seeks $2.8b Loans

 Mazda Motor Corporation has sought loans totalling about 300 billion yen ($2.8 billion) from Japan’s three megabanks and other lenders to ride out the coronavirus epidemic, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Saturday.The megabanks &#...
read more
South Korea Begins Work On Small LNG Vessel
May 11, 2020 No Responses

South Korea Begins Work On Small LNG Vessel

South Korea has started building a small liquefied natural gas bunkering vessel as part of a project backed by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries. A steel-cutting ceremony to mark the construction of the 500 cubic meter capacity LNG bunkering...
read more
Uber Loses $2.9b In Q1
May 9, 2020 No Responses

Uber Loses $2.9b In Q1

For the first quarter of 2020,  Uber lost $2.9 billion as its overseas investments were impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.  Meanwhile, the company is looking to its growing food delivery business and aggressive cost-cutting to ease the pain.T...
read more
Lufthansa To Double Schedule In June
May 8, 2020 No Responses

Lufthansa To Double Schedule In June

Germany’s Lufthansa on Friday said it would roughly double its schedule in June, putting 160 planes into the air to carry passengers to 106 domestic and foreign destinations, the airline announced from its Frankfurt Headquarters.Lufthansa, along with its sub...
read more
Covid-19: Protecting Workers In The Workplace
May 7, 2020 No Responses

Covid-19: Protecting Workers In The Workplace

COVID-19 lockdown  and containment measures threaten to increase relative poverty levels among the world’s informal economy workers by as much as 56 percentage points in low-income countries, says a new briefing paper  issued by the International Labour...
read more
UNECA: Africa Will Lose $65b To Full Lockdown
May 7, 2020 No Responses

UNECA: Africa Will Lose $65b To Full Lockdown

Mr Stephen Karingi, Director, Regional Trade and Integration, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), says African economy will lose 65 billion dollars if there is a full lockdown of the continent due to COVID-19.Karingi said this during the Wor...
read more
1 … 37 38 39 40 41 … 45