Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Zimbabwe purchases 600,000 Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccinations - information minister
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has purchased 600,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from China's Sinopharm, in addition to 200,000 China has donated, its information minister said on Wednesday, adding these were...
Feb 10, 2021
Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus
USTRALIA CORORN(Reuters) - Health authorities in Australia's Victoria state ramped up contact tracing and prepared for more mass testing of residents in Melbourne after a new COVID-19 cluster linked t...
Feb 10, 2021
Exclusive: Goldman, other financial firms add China staff, eyeing growth
By Scott Murdoch and Samuel Shen HONG KONG (Reuters) - Global financial firms including Goldman Sachs, BlackRock and Fidelity International are poised to add hundreds of staff in China this year as th...
Feb 10, 2021
Australian Open champion Kenin crashes out in second round
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Reigning champion Sofia Kenin crashed out of the Australian Open in the second round on Thursday, slumping to a 6-3 6-2 defeat at the hands of world number 65 Kaia Kanepi on Marg...
Feb 10, 2021
Barty wobbles before winning all-Australia clash
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - World number one Ash Barty suffered a meltdown on the brink of victory but regathered herself to fend off compatriot Daria Gavrilova 6-1 7-6(7) and reach the third round of the A...
Feb 10, 2021
Tokyo 2020 President Mori to resign over sexist comments - media
TOKYO (Reuters) - Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizing committee, is set to step down over sexist remarks he made that women talked too much, the Fuji News Network reported on...
Feb 10, 2021
U.S. House panel approves $42.5 billion for transportation
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House committee voted Wednesday to approve a plan to provide $42 billion in assistance to transportation sectors and workers as part of a $1.9 trillio...
Feb 10, 2021
Giantkiller Hsieh savouring happy hunting ground
By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Chinese New Year arrives on Friday but Hsieh Su-wei's parents may know better than to expect a call from their daughter after the Taiwanese maverick burnished her g...
Feb 10, 2021
NBA to Mark Cuban, teams: Play the national anthem
The NBA told its teams Wednesday afternoon that they must play the national anthem before home games, a day after Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban confirmed his team hadn't been doing so. Cuban said ...
Feb 10, 2021
Tencent executive held by China over links to corruption case: WSJ
(Reuters) - An executive at Tencent Holdings Ltd has been held by Chinese authorities as part of a probe into a high-profile corruption case involving one of China's former top law-enforcement officia...
Feb 10, 2021
