Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Chinese regulator punishes Haitong Securities over risk control measures
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's securities regulator said on Wednesday it had suspended Haitong Securities Co Ltd from conducting bond investment advisory work for institutional investors due to what it...
Mar 24, 2021
White House to add AAPI liaison after ultimatum from Senators Hirono, Duckworth
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Democratic senators dropped their threat to block President Joe Biden's nominees after the White House agreed to add a senior-level Asian-American Pacific I...
Mar 24, 2021
Crisis zones disadvantaged by weak COVID-19 response, Red Cross says
(Reuters) - Countries hit hard by humanitarian crises have also been disadvantaged by a far weaker response to COVID-19 than wealthier states, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement sai...
Mar 24, 2021
Turkish women say their safety 'hanging in the balance' after treaty exit
By Ece Toksabay and Mert Ozkan ANKARA (Reuters) - Beaten by her former boyfriend, Yagmur Denli found healing in her work treating animals and safety in the protection offered by an international treat...
Mar 24, 2021
U.S.'s Blinken warned Germany's Maas about Nord Stream 2 sanctions
By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday he had told his German counterpart that sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline were a re...
Mar 24, 2021
Romania parliament disbands special unit investigating magistrates
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's parliament on Wednesday voted to disband a unit of prosecutors that investigates magistrates, a step towards restarting judicial reforms slowed by successive Social Dem...
Mar 24, 2021
Xiaomi president says chip shortage has increased costs, may pass on to consumers
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi's president Wang Xiang said on Wednesday that the global chip shortage was increasing the company's costs and implied that in some cases the prices...
Mar 24, 2021
Germany to invest 10 billion euros in fund for start-ups
(Reuters) - Germany's federal government will make an additional 10 billion euros ($12 billion) available for an investment fund for future technologies, the country's finance and economy ministers sa...
Mar 24, 2021
Belgium imposes new lockdown to fight third COVID-19 wave
By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium will close schools, non-food stores and hairdressers for four weeks from Saturday, in a sharp renewed lockdown designed to contain a rising third wave of...
Mar 24, 2021
Vast Brazil lawsuit in UK against BHP over 2015 dam failure hits buffers
By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) -A 200,000-strong Brazilian claimant group said on Wednesday it had failed to resurrect a 5.0 billion pound ($6.9 billion) English lawsuit against Anglo-Australian m...
Mar 24, 2021
