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Indian Uber rival Ola will waive its commission until Aug. 13 for drivers in London that own an electric vehicle.

Formerly known as Libra, Facebook's vision for a digital currency was met with a severe backlash from regulators when it was first announced in June 2019.

Index giant MSCI announced that after the close on May 27, its global indexes will track Alibaba's shares listed in Hong Kong, rather than New York.

Industries in which U.S. companies operate at a disadvantage in China include health care and cloud computing, said the American Chamber of Commerce in China.

The Seychelles is causing concern for world health experts after a rise of Covid-19 cases among fully vaccinated individuals.

Shares of Canadian chip designer Alphawave IP crashed as much as 19% in the company's debut on the London Stock Exchange on Thursday morning.

The Premier League has secured approval in principle for a three-year renewal of its TV rights deal with U.K. broadcast partners, including Sky Sports.

U.K. tourists were quick to jump on the opportunity to book a vacation in Portugal.

WeRide is one of the many companies based in China pushing aggressively to take a lead in the autonomous driving space globally.

Investors are awaiting tech giant Alibaba's first-quarter and full fiscal year results that will be released on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. HK/SIN.

China's once-a-decade census released on Tuesday showed its mainland population grew to 1.41 billion people as of Nov. 1, 2020, the slowest growth rate since the 1950s.

Women who were 30- to 39-years old accounted for the biggest risk group who developed rare blood clots following J&J's Covid vaccine.

The action comes as Colonial Pipeline continues to grapple with a crippling ransomware attack.

Tesla has "suspended vehicle purchases using bitcoin," Elon Musk said, citing environmental concerns.

The world faces an urgent need to vaccinate people, and waiving intellectual property rights doesn't address that problem, according to Umang Vohra of Cipla.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it recommends expanded usage of Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-old kids.

The hacker group DarkSide, which was behind the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, claimed on Wednesday to have attacked three more companies.

The Colonial Pipeline has restarted operations, after the system shut down on Friday in the wake of a ransomware attack.

It is thought that a mixed dosing schedule could lead to an increase in work absences the day after immunization against the coronavirus.

American, Delta and United said they were pausing some Israel service as violence raises safety concerns.