Consulting giant McKinsey & Co. has signed a $ 573 million deal over its work advising Oxycopt manufacturer Purdue Pharma LP and other drug makers to aggressively market painkillers, according to people …
Read More »US B-52 Bomber Faber Fly Over Persian Gulf, For Show Against Iran
Al-Udid Air Base, QATAR-Pentagon, sent a B-52 bomber to the Persian Gulf region on Tuesday, the sixth such retrenchment since the last fall in a show of detention for Iran. The B-52H …
Read More »China’s love of Tickcock-style apps is a $ 5 billion IPO
Seeking to raise nearly $ 5 billion from Hong Kong stock sales as a short-video and live-streaming app in terms of popularity in China, Kuishau Technology has its eyes on the world’s …
Read More »Argentina is a test ground for Moscow’s Global Vaccine Drive
Russia is selling millions of doses of its domestic Sputnik V vaccine overseas, making it a major supplier of a shot that could give Moscow a valuable slice of the global Kovid-19 …
Read More »In Hong Kong, an American priestly lawyer faces China’s wrath, but believes
Hong Kong – In the 1960s, John Clancy was sent from a small town in New York State to Hong Kong, a priest for the city’s working poor. He stayed and eventually …
Read More »YouTube suspends President Trump’s account
YouTube suspended President Trump’s channel on Tuesday night, joining a growing list of tech companies that are evicting them from their platforms. Alphabet Inc. The video-sharing service said it was locking up …
Read More »Aircraft crashed in Indonesia did not fly for nine months
Indonesia’s Ministry of Transport said the Srivijaya air jet did not fly for nearly nine months last year, as air travel was severely curtailed due to the coronovirus epidemic, as search teams …
Read More »Canada criticized for Kovid-19 vaccine rollout
OTTAWA — Canadian authorities are scrambling to make up lost ground in their quest to vaccinate vulnerable people against Kovid-19, following an initial rollout that many public-health officials have criticized as slow …
Read More »US unemployment claims boost goods imports while consumer demand boosts
Workers continued to apply for unemployment assistance at an elevated level in late 2020 and holiday-season demand for imported consumer products pushed the trade deficit to a record in November, a sign …
Read More »Chinese telecom stocks come as US delisting looms
Shares in China’s three major telecommunications carriers fell on Monday, with the New York Stock Exchange saying it would distribute them to comply with a US government ban. Hong Kong shares in …
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