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[ad_1] NEW YORK: The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in the era of video conferencing. But can Zoom really replace in-person meetings that require business executives to travel? American airlines have suffered a sharp drop in this lucrative travel category. They expect a rebound, but not immediately. Ad Ad “I suddenly …

[ad_1] By Joyce Lee, Hyunjoo Jin, and Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – Lee Kun-hee, who made Samsung Electronics a global powerhouse in smartphones, semiconductors and televisions, died Sunday after spending more than six years in hospital following a heart attack, the company said. The charismatic leader of the Samsung Group …

[ad_1] I think a lot about restaurant reservations these days. But only because it is very difficult to secure a coveted seat in a restaurant for four friends for lunch or dinner. My Facebook feed is full of opposing views: on the one hand, there are the penny pinchers who …

[ad_1] SEOUL: As a devout Jehovah’s Witness, Jang Kyung-jin was ready to be imprisoned instead of serving in the South Korean military. After a landmark court ruling, he will head to prison on Monday (October 26), but as a civil administrator, not as a convict. The South is technically still …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Can milk be produced in a laboratory rather than from cows or humans? And can it taste the same? Local biotech company TurtleTree Labs certainly thinks so, and impressed the 2020 World Cup of Entrepreneurship judges enough to take home the top $ 500,000 (Singapore $ 678,000) …

[ad_1] SEOUL: In February 1993, five years after replacing his father in South Korea’s Samsung Group, Lee Kun-hee, 51, was frustrated that he was not making his mark. He summoned a group of Samsung Electronics executives to a Best Buy store in Los Angeles to check out the reality of …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: When the United States tried to seal a defense deal seven years ago with the Maldives, a sprawling and strategic archipelago, its plans were quietly torpedoed by a friend: India, which considers the Indian Ocean its sphere of influence. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit the …

[ad_1] Publication date: Saturday, October 24, 2020 7:57 AM Paul Merson believes Liverpool need to hire a quality defender to cover Virgil van Dijk rather than just a cheap replacement. Van Dijk could miss the rest of the season after sustaining an ACL injury during the Merseyside derby. The Dutch …

[ad_1] SANETA, India: The smog crisis in Delhi headed for a new toxic peak on Saturday (October 24), but farmers refuse to stop burning stubble, which is widely attributed to poisonous clouds engulfing the Indian capital. . Air pollution in parts of the city reached “severe” levels on Saturday, a …

[ad_1] SEOUL (AFP) – Samsung Electronics president Lee Kun-hee died at the age of 78 on Sunday (October 25), the company said. Under Lee’s leadership, Samsung became the world’s largest producer of smartphones and memory chips, and the company’s total turnover today amounts to one-fifth of South Korea’s gross domestic …