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Nearly 30 generic drugmakers in Asia, Africa and the Middle East will make cheap versions of Merck & Co’s Covid-19 pill. The production campaign is under a landmark U.N.-backed deal to give poorer nations wider access to a drug seen as a weapon in fighting the pandemic. Merck’s early greenlight …

Alphabet’s Google reported 27 percent higher US lobbying expenditures for 2021 compared to 2020, spending US$9.6 million for the year, according to the Senate lobbying disclosure database. That’s far below the more than US$20 million it spent in 2018 but more than the US$7.53 million that went to lobbying in …

A number of industry trade groups have called on the government to consider fully reopening the borders to foreign tourists from May 1 to revive the tourism sector. In a proposal sent to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Thursday, the Tourism Advisory Board, the Private Economic Development Research Board …