Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Brazil must show Amazon protection is working, top donor Norway says
By Terje Solsvik OSLO (Reuters) - Brazil must demonstrate it can reduce the ongoing deforestation in the Amazon before Norway will resume payments in support of preserving the world's largest rainfore...
Apr 14, 2021
KKR-backed pizza platform Slice raises $40 million in latest funding round
(Reuters) - Slice, an online ordering platform which helps small pizzerias compete with large chains, said on Wednesday it raised $40 million in its latest funding round led by Cross Creek, with parti...
Apr 14, 2021
BOJ Kuroda offers cautiously optimistic view on economy
TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda offered a cautiously optimistic view of the economy on Wednesday, saying it would continue to improve although risks were skewed to the downsid...
Apr 14, 2021
Hong Kong university's guidelines on security law stoke fears over freedoms
By Pak Yiu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's most prestigious university has recommended that a group be set up to "protect academic freedom ... in conformity with national security law (NSL) provisio...
Apr 14, 2021
AstraZeneca's drug Tagrisso gets China nod for early lung cancer
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc said on Wednesday China's health regulator has approved Tagrisso, the British drugmaker's lung cancer treatment, as adjuvant treatment for patients with an early-stage lung...
Apr 14, 2021
Lachlan Murdoch to end Australia stay and return for Fox US reopening
By Byron Kaye and Helen Coster SYDNEY (Reuters) -Fox Corp chief executive Lachlan Murdoch will return to the United States from a months-long Australian sojourn in early September, a spokesman told Re...
Apr 14, 2021
UAE partners with Japan's iSpace to send rover to the moon in 2022
DUBAI (Reuters) - Japanese space company iSpace will transport a United Arab emirates rover to the moon in 2022, the company announced on Wednesday. Under the agreement, iSpace said it would also prov...
Apr 14, 2021
Tesco reports 2 billion pounds profit after 'exceptionally strong' sales
LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, on Wednesday beat its guidance by reporting total adjusted retail operating profit of 1.99 billion pounds ($2.74 billion) after seeing "exceptiona...
Apr 14, 2021
EU Commission to end AstraZeneca and J&J vaccine contracts at expiry - paper
MILAN (Reuters) - The EU Commission has decided not to renew COVID-19 vaccine contracts next year with companies such as Astrazeneca and Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Italian daily La Stampa reported on We...
Apr 14, 2021
EasyJet sees more flying from late May
LONDON (Reuters) -British airline easyJet said it expected to start to fly more from late May onwards, shrugging off worries about a third wave of COVID-19 infections in continental Europe which have ...
Apr 14, 2021
