Author Archives: Syndicated Content
NBA postpones Sunday’s Thunder vs. 76ers game
Just hours before tipoff Sunday, the NBA postponed a second game on the day's schedule -- the Philadelphia 76ers at the Oklahoma City Thunder -- expanding the number of games the league has postponed ...
Jan 17, 2021
Dollar pokes higher as U.S. soft data sours mood; China GDP in focus
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar held late-week gains on Monday as softening U.S. economic data and rising coronavirus cases turned investors cautious. Against a basket of currencies the dollar hovere...
Jan 17, 2021
Japan manufacturers' sentiment stabilises in Jan, services weaken: Reuters Tankan
By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - Sentiment among Japanese manufacturers stabilised in January to the least pessimistic in more than a year from the impact of COVID-19, but service firms grew gloom...
Jan 17, 2021
Big Oil’s flagship plastic waste project sinks on the Ganges
By Joe Brock, John Geddie and Saurabh Sharma SINGAPORE/VARANASI, India (Reuters) - A wheelbarrow and a handful of metal grids for capturing litter, emblazoned with the words "Renew Oceans," sit rustin...
Jan 17, 2021
Timeline: Wuhan, one year after coronavirus lockdown
(Reuters) - China locked down the central city of Wuhan a year ago at the start of the Lunar New Year, the country's biggest holiday, as it battled to contain the spread of a novel coronavirus. Follow...
Jan 17, 2021
Venezuela dispatches oxygen for Brazil's Amazonas, reeling from COVID-19
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday that a convoy of trucks carrying emergency oxygen supplies for Brazil's northern Amazonas state, where a second wave of the coron...
Jan 17, 2021
Australia unlikely to fully reopen borders in 2021 as virus cases slide
By Swati Pandey SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia may not fully reopen its international borders this year even if most of the population is vaccinated against coronavirus, the head of its health departmen...
Jan 17, 2021
Asia shares step back, await China economic update
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian share markets retreated from highs on Monday as disappointing news on U.S. consumer spending tempered risk sentiment ahead of a closely-watched reading on the he...
Jan 17, 2021
Four more Australian Open participants infected with COVID-19
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Four more Australian Open participants, including one player, have been recorded with COVID-19 infections and more cases may come to light as testing continues, officials said on...
Jan 17, 2021
UK vacancies for remote workers triple in a year: consultancy
LONDON (Reuters) - Demand for remote workers in Britain tripled over the course of 2020 as businesses grew more willing to let staff work from home during the coronavirus pandemic, figures from a recr...
Jan 17, 2021
