Author Archives: Syndicated Content
China's vast countryside in rush to bolster COVID defences
By Bernard Orr BEIJING (Reuters) - China's sprawling and thinly-resourced countryside was racing to beef up medical facilities amid a surging COVID-19 wave as hundreds of millions of migrant factory w...
Dec 28, 2022
Philippine central bank sees Dec annual inflation at 7.8% to 8.6%
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine inflation was likely within the 7.8% to 8.6% range in December because of upward pressures from higher electricity rates and agricultural commodities prices, the central ...
Dec 28, 2022
Brazil's BRF signs $111 million leniency deal after graft accusations
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian food processor BRF SA on Wednesday signed a leniency agreement with local authorities over payments it must make to the South American country's government following ac...
Dec 28, 2022
South Korea's Yoon orders revamp of response to violations of country's air space
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered a revamp of the military's response system against objects violating its air space, his office said on Thursday, days after five North K...
Dec 28, 2022
Vietnam 2022 GDP growth quickens to 8.02%, fastest since 1997
HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam's gross domestic product grew 8.02% in 2022, the fastest pace annually since 1997, backed by strong domestic retail sales and exports. The reading is higher than an official g...
Dec 28, 2022
Dollar steadies as optimism over China reopening turns to caution
By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar steadied on Thursday after riding long-end U.S. Treasury yields higher overnight, as initial optimism over China's reopening fizzled. Following China's remo...
Dec 28, 2022
Cricket-Australia six wickets from victory, South Africa 120-4 at lunch
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia moved six wickets from a series-sealing victory in the second test on Thursday as South Africa staggered to 120 for four at lunch on day four in Melbourne, still 266 ru...
Dec 28, 2022
Oil prices ease, China COVID spike hurts demand outlook
By Arathy Somasekhar (Reuters) - Oil prices ticked down on Thursday as surging COVID-19 cases in China dimmed hopes of a recovery in fuel demand in the world's second-biggest oil consumer. The scale o...
Dec 28, 2022
U.S., UK, EU among countries calling for Taliban to reverse ban on women aid workers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Foreign ministers of 12 countries and the EU, including the United States and Britain, urged Afghanistan's Taliban-led government on Wednesday to reverse its decision barring fe...
Dec 28, 2022
Portugal's infrastructure minister quits over TAP controversy
LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese Infrastructure Minister Pedro Nuno Santos has stepped down, his office said on Thursday, following a public backlash over a hefty severance pay a secretary of state recei...
Dec 28, 2022
