DUBAI / WAM Emirates Post has started implementing ‘contactless deliveries’ as part of stringent measures to protect the wellbeing of its customers and staff amid coronavirus, Covid-19, concerns. To limit contact, delivery drivers will now place all items outside the intended recipient’s door, the official postal operator said, adding that from a safe distance, couriers will ask recipients to confirm ...

Bloomberg Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant Gojek has raised $1.2 billion for expansion, defying tech-sector turbulence and the coronavirus pandemic to secure funds to take on Grab Holdings Inc. The new financing was finalized just over the past week, when the Covid-19 outbreak quickened its spread and triggered market routs across the globe. That took the total raised in its current ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong lost its title as the world’s freest economy to Singapore for the first time since 1995 in a global survey, as social unrest and uncertainties rattled its reputation as a global financial hub. Hong Kong’s overall economic freedom score fell primarily due to a decline in its marks for investment freedom, according to the 2020 Index of ...