Money & Finance

Nine Japanese nationals who are wanted for telecommunications fraud were deported Monday by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) of the Philippines. The suspects, according to the Business World, were identified as Irie Dai, Ishii Kyogo, Hamaoka Kantaro, Maeyama Takuto, Tanaka Kazuya, Yoshida Takeshi, Murata Seiichi, Kouki Shouji, and Imizumi Ryo. Media reports said that the […]

From only 31 cases on February 18, South Korea has confirmed a sudden increase in its coronavirus cases that reached 833 as of Monday afternoon. The government over the weekend declared that the virus alert has been raised to its highest level and intensified quarantine measures to contain the virus spread. Aside from human infection, South […]

The central bank of Indonesia has cut its interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.75% to prevent the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak that hammers the country’s travel, tourism and trade industries. Although Indonesia has not reported any confirmed case of the deadly virus, officials are worried about the fallout from the epidemic. The closure […]

Yasunori Kagoike, the former head of a Japanese institution named Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife, Junko, were found guilty of defrauding the central and local governments. The couple had been indicted for receiving public subsidies worth ¥56.4 million from the national government for the construction of an elementary school in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture between 2016 […]

The fugitive Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho, commonly known as Jho Low, was recently spotted in the coronavirus-center Chinese city according to Malaysian authorities. “Previously, we did receive intelligence that he was active in Wuhan,” said Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador. Low is wanted for his huge role in a massive graft scandal, siphoning […]

US-based World Population Review announced that India claimed the fifth position in the world’s largest economy rankings for 2019, surpassing the United Kingdom and...

American multinational technology firm Apple said during the investor update that it will not meet its target earnings for March as its production and...

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) of Thailand has successfully concluded its 5G spectrum auctions on Sunday which raised a total of 100.52 billion baht...

All paper currency from hospitals, markets, and buses in some regions of China that have been hard hit by the coronavirus, officially named Covid-19,...

Japanese auto giant Nissan Motor Co. has sued its former chairman Carlos Ghosn as it seeks $91 million (for ¥10 billion) in damages. The civil...