Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK parliamentary committee to summon Sunak, Cameron over Greensill lobbying
LONDON (Reuters) - A British parliamentary committee will summon finance minister Rishi Sunak and former Prime Minister David Cameron to appear before it to answer questions about the ex-leader's lobb...
Apr 20, 2021
BOJ inflation prediction to show limits of Gov Kuroda's ultra-easy policy
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is set to predict for the first time that inflation will remain well short of its 2% target beyond Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's term through early 202...
Apr 20, 2021
Israel logs Indian COVID-19 variant, sees some vaccine efficacy against it
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has registered eight cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India and believes that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is at least partially effective against it, an ...
Apr 20, 2021
Britain reviews core banking rules in light of Brexit
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Tuesday launched an independent review of capital and proprietary trading rules introduced following the global financial crisis more than a decade ago as it seeks to bol...
Apr 20, 2021
Dubai Aerospace orders 15 Boeing 737 MAX jets
DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), one of the world's biggest leasing companies, on Tuesday announced an order for 15 Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets worth $1.8 billion at list prices. The orde...
Apr 20, 2021
Japanese journalists call for Myanmar junta to free detained colleague
TOKYO (Reuters) - A group of journalists in Japan called on Myanmar's junta on Tuesday to free a colleague, Yuki Kitazumi, detained in Yangon following a crackdown on media amid ongoing protests again...
Apr 20, 2021
UK unemployment falls again under government's jobs shield
By William Schomberg and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's unemployment rate unexpectedly fell for a second month in a row to 4.9% in the December-to-February period, most of which the country s...
Apr 20, 2021
Thailand says has enough hospital space amid new coronavirus wave
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai health authorities on Tuesday assured the public there were sufficient hospital beds for the rising number of coronavirus patients, amid a new wave of infections this month th...
Apr 20, 2021
Philippine hospitals struggle to cope as more severe COVID-19 wave hits
By Karen Lema and Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - Nick Yaez, a 28-year-old ambulance nurse in a satellite city of Manila, says she sometimes spends six to seven hours in her emergency vehicle c...
Apr 20, 2021
China police detain 2 staff of BP venture, others in fuel trade probe -sources
By Chen Aizhu SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Police in China's southern Guangdong province have detained several people, including two senior staff of a BP Plc joint venture, in connection with an investigatio...
Apr 20, 2021
