Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Japan ensures G20 pledge vs 'disorderly' moves as FX language tweaked, sources say
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan made sure that language warning against excess currency market volatility remained in place when G20 finance leaders made a rare tweak to their message on exchange-rate moves, ...
Apr 09, 2021
Italy's old pay high price for regional vaccine lottery
By Crispian Balmer and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Agostino Airaudo, 86, died of the coronavirus on March 21. Ninety minutes earlier he had received an SMS telling him that, after weeks of waiting,...
Apr 09, 2021
Volkswagen loses A$125 million fine appeal for emissions breach in Australia: regulator
(Reuters) - Australian competition regulator said on Friday the federal court dismissed Volkswagen's appeal against a record A$125 million ($95.1 million) fine on the German car maker, which was part ...
Apr 09, 2021
'No warnings': Powerful cyclone exposes Indonesia's lack of preparedness
By Emanuel Dile Bataona and Agustinus Beo Da Costa LEMBATA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Gregorius Hide, a 70-year-old farmer in the eastern Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara, said the only warning h...
Apr 09, 2021
Column: Britain's interest rate vulnerability
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England bond buying may actually increase the speed with which future interest rate rises make UK government debt unbearable and is one glimpse into why centra...
Apr 09, 2021
Some Hong Kong lawmakers criticise plans to mask company directors' data
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Several Hong Kong lawmakers on Friday raised concerns that proposals to restrict public access to information about directors of companies could make it harder for trade unions, ...
Apr 09, 2021
Myanmar junta says expects full government operations soon, amid nationwide strike
(Reuters) - Myanmar's ruling military on Friday said it believed government operations would soon return to normal, as public participation in protests and strikes against the junta was waning. In a t...
Apr 09, 2021
Germany needs nationwide measures to break COVID wave - health minister
BERLIN (Reuters) - German needs to implement nationwide measures to break the current wave of coronavirus infections as quickly as possible, its health minister said on Friday. "We need a lockdown," J...
Apr 09, 2021
Norway prime minister fined by police over virus rules violation
OSLO (Reuters) -Norwegian police said on Friday they have fined Prime Minister Erna Solberg for breaking COVID-19 social distancing rules when organising a family gathering to celebrate her birthday. ...
Apr 09, 2021
Philippines records 401 coronavirus deaths, highest daily increase
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' health ministry on Friday reported 401 new coronavirus deaths, the highest single-day spike in fatalities since the start of the pandemic, and 12,225 additional inf...
Apr 09, 2021
