Bloomberg Vietnam Airlines will temporarily suspend all of its South Korea flights beginning March 5 over concerns about the novel coronavirus outbreak, the national carrier said in a statement posted on its website. As of March 1, Vietnam Airlines flights from South Korea to Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport and Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City ...

DUBAI / WAM The United Arab Emirates has facilitated a mission by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to deliver medical supplies and equipment to Iran in a bid to help contain the new coronavirus (Covid19), in the neighbouring country. The UAE Air Force deployed an aircraft that carried 7.5 tonnes of cargo from Dubai to Iran on Monday afternoon. Dubai’s ...

Bloomberg Global central banks promised to act as needed to stabilise markets rattled by the coronavirus as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warned the world economy faces its “greatest danger” since the financial crisis more than a decade ago. In an emergency statement, Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the Bank of Japan will “strive to provide ample liquidity ...