Seven & I To Buy Us Speedway Chain For $21 Bil.

Seven & i to buy US Speedway chain for $21 bil.

Major Japanese retailer Seven & i Holdings is to buy a US refinery's chain of convenience stores for 21 billion dollars.

Marathon Petroleum Corporation's Speedway unit has about 3,900 gas stations with convenience stores across the United States. That makes Speedway the country's third-largest convenience-store operator.

Seven Returnees From Hubei Hospitalized

Seven returnees from Hubei hospitalized

The Japanese health ministry says seven people have been taken to hospital after arriving in Japan from China on the fifth flight chartered by the Japanese government.

The flight from Wuhan, the center of the new coronavirus outbreak, landed at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Monday morning. It was carrying 36 Japanese nationals and 29 Chinese, many of whom are spouses.