Author Archives: Syndicated Content
TikTok owner ByteDance launches Douyin Pay, its mobile payment service for China
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing-based ByteDance launched on Tuesday its third-party payment service for the Chinese version of its hit short video app TikTok, "Douyin Pay", as it presses to expand into th...
Jan 19, 2021
Kremlin says unfazed by calls for sanctions over Navalny's detention
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday it would not take into account calls by some Western countries to impose additional sanctions on Russia over the detention of opposition politician Alexe...
Jan 19, 2021
Spain to send 30,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine to Andorra
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain will sell 30,000 doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to microstate Andorra, as part of its plan to redistribute excess vaccines, the Health Ministry said on Tuesd...
Jan 19, 2021
Japan's Okinawa declares coronavirus emergency as cases spike
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's southernmost prefecture, Okinawa, declared a state of emergency on Tuesday over the COVID-19 pandemic, as the country grapples with a surge in infections six months before it...
Jan 19, 2021
India asks Facebook's WhatsApp to withdraw privacy policy update
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's technology ministry has asked Facebook Inc-owned WhatsApp to withdraw the changes to its privacy policy announced by the messenger earlier this month, saying the new term...
Jan 19, 2021
'One village, one policy': China keeps it local to battle COVID wave
By David Stanway SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is using localised tactics to battle a wave of COVID-19 outbreaks, an approach that avoids the sort of widespread shutdowns that devastated the economy last...
Jan 19, 2021
Police arrest woman FBI says may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device: media
(Reuters) - Federal authorities have arrested a Pennsylvania woman accused of stealing a laptop computer or hard drive from U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the storm...
Jan 19, 2021
Boeing 737 MAX to get EU flight clearance next week: safety chief
PARIS (Reuters) - Boeing's 737 MAX airliner will receive final clearance to resume flying in Europe next week, the head of the EU's air safety watchdog said on Tuesday. The EU Aviation Safety Agency (...
Jan 19, 2021
Almost 90% see market bubbles in Deutsche Bank investor survey
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly 90% of respondents in Deutsche Bank's monthly investor survey said financial markets now had a number of price bubbles, with cryptocurrency Bitcoin and U.S. tech stocks top o...
Jan 19, 2021
Exclusive: India plans foreign investment rule changes that could hit Amazon
By Aditya Kalra and Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is considering revising its foreign investment rules for e-commerce, three sources and a government spokesman told Reuters, a move that c...
Jan 19, 2021
