Monthly Archive: May 2018

‘All is ready now to really use [the vaccine],’ WHO Director-General says in praising Congo’s response to the outbreak that’s killed 19 people.

The disposal of Conoco’s North Sea assets after more than 50 years in the British offshore basin could fetch as much as US$2 billion

NEW YORK — Facebook is suspending about 200 apps that it believes may have misused data. The social media giant said in a blog post Monday that the suspensions resulted from its investigation into all apps that had access to large amounts of information before Facebook changed its platform policies in 2014. Those changes, according […]

The deal brings together two operators with a total production capacity of over 570,000 kg per year of cannabis, through nine facilities in Canada and two in Denmark

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — New Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday that the attorney general has been told to go on leave pending an investigation of his role in allegedly covering up a massive corruption scandal involving ousted leader Najib Razak. The government also announced that the head of the country’s treasury has been […]

TORONTO — Aurora Cannabis Inc. has inked a friendly deal to acquire MedReleaf Corp. in an all-stock transaction valued at $3.2 billion, marking the biggest acquisition to date in Canada’s cannabis industry. The transaction will create a cannabis behemoth capable of producing more than 570,000 kilograms of marijuana per year, the companies said Monday, as […]

BERLIN — European intelligence chiefs warned Monday that Russia is actively seeking to undermine their democracies by disinformation, cyberattacks and more traditional means of espionage. The heads of Britain and Germany’s domestic intelligence agencies, as well as the European Union and NATO’s top security officials, pinpointed Moscow as the prime source of hybrid threats to […]

TAICHUNG, Taiwan — Standing on his company’s sprawling campus in central Taiwan, Lin Nan-juh says he’s able to make any plane his island’s government calls for. “We can do whatever’s asked,” says Lin, president of Aerospace Industrial Development Corp., or AIDC, a leader in the defence industry serving the isolated self-governing island that China claims […]

Kalyan Krishnamurthy’s ruthless changes brought Flipkart back from the edge. Now, its US$16B deal steels it against any Amazon or Alibaba inroads

The fallout will hit young people looking for their first job, and employers, who will have to work longer, lower-pay hours