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Thailand scraps Covid testing mandate to lure more tourists

Bloomberg Thailand will scrap a mandatory Covid test on arrival as the Southeast Asian nation rolls back some of the pandemic-era measures seen as deterring global tourists. The RT-PCR tests will be replaced with a voluntary self-administered antigen tests for those entering via air and land borders from May 1, Taweesilp Visanuyothin, a spokesman for the nation’s main virus task ...

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Africa’s Eswatini revives airline after 23 years

  Bloomberg Eswatini, Africa’s last absolute monarchy, is set to launch a flag-carrier airline almost a quarter of a century after the previous one ceased operations in the country formerly known as Swaziland. Eswatini Air will fly from national capital Mbabane to cities such as Johannesburg and Cape Town in neighboring South Africa starting later this year, Qiniso Dhlamini, chief ...

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Amazon ramps up its green push

  Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc struck deals to boost its access to renewable energy by almost a third as the company looks to get all of its power from green sources within a few years. The retail giant will buy power from 3.5 gigawatts of new projects — mostly solar farms in the US — to supply its offices, warehouses and ...

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