In the wake of the coup in Myanmar in February, a review of how it would bring to an end a joint venture in the country with a company that is controlled by the military there is being conducted by South Korean steel making giant POSCO, said a report from the news agency Reuters quoting…
Thailand will consider as its “principal vaccine” against Covid-19 the coronavirus shot developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford with this Asian country trying to reopen and revive its tourism industry which is a crucial one for the country, said the country’s public health minister in an interview to a television channel. There were…
Officials of the European Union have said that citizens across the EU should be given a digital certificate “without discrimination” is that it is possible to kick-start foreign travel. The target of this move is to allow anyone who has been vaccinated against the Covid-19 disease or who has in possession a recent negative Covid-19…
Following the attempt by the Indian government to pressurize Twitter to take down accounts it deemed incendiary, strict new rules for Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms have been issued by the government. According to the new regulations, the government expects social media companies to create three new job profiles for their operation in…
Italy has reportedly blocked a shipment of the AstraZeneca-Oxford’s Cvoid-19 vaccine to Australia on Thursday marking the first intervention by the European Union into the supply of coronavirus vaccines, claimed a report by Reuters. Permission to ship around 250,000 doses of the vaccine from its Anagni, Italy, plant was made by the British pharma giant…
Following a truce with the Australian government over a tussle related to the new content law being brought in the country, an investment of at least $1 billion in the news industry in the country over a period of the next three years would be made by the social media company Facebook. The largest social…
According to the European Union chief executive Ursula von der Leyen, the fight against climate change should be jointly worked out by Europe and the United States, while the efforts to limit the power of big tech firms should also be done by the two parties together by framing a mutually agreed new framework for…
After the social media giant Facebook blocked news on its platform in Australia, the United States based tech giant is back at the negotiating table, said the country’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Saturday. There was wide spread anger in Australia after Facebook decided to abruptly prevent its Australian users from sharing news on the…
The potential of the new Covid-19 variant first identified in the United Kingdom to cause more damage than the original one according tp “some evidence”, said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “We’ve been informed today that in addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant…
Political donations to those Republican Congress members who raised objections to the Electoral College’s votes are being suspended by some of the biggest companies of the United States. This decision, which is being taken by more companies by the day, follows the siege of the US Capitol last Wednesday by a pro-Trump mob. The latest…
