South Korean convenience stores in delivery-service battle

Competition among South Korean convenience stores over delivery services is heating up. One chain, GS25, recently launched delivery services from seven stores in Seoul...

Virus may cost Australian universities ‘billions’

The coronavirus outbreak could deliver a painful multi-billion-dollar hit to Australian universities, as high-paying Chinese students are forced to defer their studies, economists warned...

Australia breakthrough may slow coronavirus spread

Scientists have replicated the Wuhan coronavirus in a laboratory for the first time outside China, raising hopes for the development of a test that...

Help on the way to prevent Wuhan virus pandemic

Australian researchers expect to develop a vaccine against the Wuhan coronavirus within four months as part of an international collaboration aimed at halting the...

PM Imran warns Modi, Indian army chief against warmongering

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday warned Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane against continuing the...

Restaurants give hotpot cold shoulder over coronavirus fears, though experts question...

Four huge Hong Kong restaurant chains have stopped offering hotpots after a doctor on Monday maintained in a radio interview that the conditions created...