The United States (US) led calls at a G20 meeting Tuesday for greater global cooperation in light of the coronavirus crisis as China insisted that multilateralism should not just be a slogan.Italy welcomed foreign ministers of the Group of 20 major economies to the southern city of Matera for their first in-person talks since the start of the pandemic that has claimed nearly four million lives worldwide.In a sharp reversal in tone from the previous US administration, Secretary of State Antony

Denmark and the United States (US) are among six countries that have reported new coronavirus cases linked to mink farms, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden are the other nations to have discovered SARS-CoV-2 in minks, the WHO said in a statement.Denmark has imposed strict measures on the north of the country after warning that a mutation of the virus had jumped from minks to humans and infected 12 people.Copenhagen has warned the mutation could

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday of a "new and dangerous phase" of the coronavirus pandemic with people tiring of lockdowns despite the disease's accelerating spread.The warning came as it emerged the virus was present in Italy in December, months before its first confirmed cases and about the same time as the disease was first reported in China.The virus, which has now killed more than 454,000 people and infected 8.4 million people worldwide, is surging in the

Italy has logged a shocking spike in its already staggering coronavirus death toll, with officials warning the peak of the crisis was still days away, as the global infection rate surges relentlessly upwards.With more than 300,000 people infected in Europe alone, the disease shows few signs of slowing, and has already cast the world into a recession, economists say.In the United States (US), which now has more than 104,000 COVID-19 patients, President Donald Trump invoked wartime powers Frida

While many large companies in ASEAN are piloting Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) initiatives in manufacturing, few small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have managed to integrate them in their processes successfully. Industry 4.0 manufacturing can be defined as the integration of internet-enabled technologies which allow networking in the production process.

The complicated, hot-and-cold relationship between Europe and China takes another turn this week, as several European Union (EU) leaders break ranks to attend the Belt and Road summit in Beijing.The list of European leaders attending the showcase for China's global influence – held Thursday through Saturday – is dominated by eurosceptics and populists eager to vex Brussels, as well as countries hard-up for investments.Giussepe Conte, head of Italy's coalition government, will headli