Author Archives: Syndicated Content

HANOI (Reuters) - The chief of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong and U.S. President Joe Biden agreed in a telephone call on Wednesday to "promote, develop and deepen" ties, Vietnam's s...

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian stocks rose on Thursday with fears easing on the banking front and the prospect of a break-up at Chinese conglomerate Alibaba offering an encouraging sign ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Ten people have died and 230 have been rescued after a passenger ferry caught fire on Wednesday evening in the seas off the southern Philippine province of Basilan, a coast guard of...

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Almost all of the remaining shortfall in U.S. labor force participation is the result of demographic and other trends that predate the COVID-19 pandemic, acc...

(Reuters) - A Florida board created to oversee Walt Disney World's special taxation district is considering legal action after saying its power over the entertainment company's resort has been eviscer...

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar was on the front foot on Thursday as receding concerns over the banking sector helped improve risk sentiment, with investors switching their att...

By Ellen Zhang and Marius Zaharia BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Some of China's most indebted local governments are on a hiring spree, a move that analysts say could put fragile regional finances unde...

By Sarah Morland (Reuters) - "I said I would hand myself in, but the police kicked down the gate," Tamara Davila, a formerly jailed Nicaraguan activist on Wednesday told regional diplomats looking int...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Every week, Cambodian goldsmith Thoeun Chantha turns about five kg of brass casings of AK-47 and M-16 bullets into jewellery. For more than two decades, the 42-year-old, whose f...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Job vacancies in Australia eased in the three months to February, the third straight quarter of decline, but still far above pre-pandemic levels in a sign of a still tight labour ma...