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Masks in luggage: How a Malaysian tech firm reopened its China factory
By Krishna N. Das PENANG, Malaysia (Reuters) - When news of the coronavirus outbreak spread around the world in January, officials of the Malaysian tech company Qdos quickly realized what they needed ...
Mar 10, 2020
In Malaysia’s Silicon Valley, fortunes flip as virus wrecks trade war gains
By Krishna N. Das and Liz Lee PENANG, Malaysia (Reuters) - Tech firms at Malaysia's one-time Silicon Valley of the East, swimming in orders from customers fleeing trade war-hit China, have seen fortun...
Mar 09, 2020
Samsung Display asks Vietnam not to quarantine 700 engineers from virus-hit South Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Display, a supplier for Samsung Electronics and Apple, has asked Vietnam to exempt 700 engineers from coronavirus-hit South Korea from a mandatory quarantine, saying they nee...
Mar 09, 2020
Amazon launches business selling automated checkout to retailers
By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Monday is set to announce a new business line selling the technology behind its cashier-less convenience stores to other retailers, the company told Reu...
Mar 09, 2020
Albania halts schools, Italy flights, ferries over coronavirus
By Benet Koleka TIRANA (Reuters) - Albania reported its first coronavirus infections on Monday - two men who returned from Italy and four family members of one of them - prompting the government to sh...
Mar 09, 2020
Blackwater founder Prince’s company enters Congo insurance industry
By Hereward Holland KINSHASA (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has granted an insurance license to a subsidiary of Hong-Kong-listed Frontier Services Group (FSG), a security and logistics c...
Mar 09, 2020
Top U.S. envoy presses Canada over Huawei role in 5G network: officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. envoy on Monday pressed Canada about Ottawa's forthcoming decision on whether to allow China's Huawei Technologies to take part in its 5G network, a move Washingto...
Mar 09, 2020
Movement restricted across Italy in new coronavirus crackdown: PM Conte
ROME (Reuters) - Movement across Italy will be sharply restricted in a dramatic new clampdown aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Monday. Conte told r...
Mar 09, 2020
Robinhood trading app suffers another outage as markets whipsaw
By John McCrank and C Nivedita (Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc, the fintech startup that introduced millions of millennials to equities, options and crypto trading, greets visitors to its website wi...
Mar 09, 2020
Spain shuts schools in Madrid region and Basque capital over coronavirus
By Emma Pinedo and Beln Carreo MADRID (Reuters) - Schools and universities in the Madrid region will close for two weeks starting on Wednesday as a precaution against coronavirus, Health Minister Salv...
Mar 09, 2020
