For most of us, the growing evidence that the efficacy of Covid vaccines is declining over time should be a cause of worry. For the drug companies that have spent billions of dollars developing them, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Recent studies on vaccine effectiveness have led to a run of orders for boosters in recent weeks. The US will start ...

BMW AG is set to effectively bail out its flailing Chinese joint-venture partner. For the German carmaker, that’s a smart move. BMW’s China unit is close to a deal to buy production assets worth $252 million from the parent of its main partner, Brilliance Auto, Bloomberg News reported citing people familiar with the matter. The information was disclosed at a ...

China’s latest tightening of gaming rules is much ado about nothing. Except, of course, that nothing Beijing does is minor or inconsequential these days because everything the leadership says should be taken both literally and seriously. Shares of the nation’s leading games providers including Tencent Holdings Ltd, NetEase Inc, Bilibili Inc. and Huya Inc tumbled after the National Press and ...