Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Indonesia boosts tax incentives to limit economic impact from COVID
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has increased tax incentives for businesses in a move to try and limit the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, its tax office said on Saturday. Previously announ...
Jul 18, 2020
Hundreds of Thais protest, demanding government resignation
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of Thais protested on Saturday evening, demanding the resignation of the government and the dissolution of parliament, defying a coronavirus ban on big gatherings in one o...
Jul 18, 2020
Chinese ports hit capacity as virus tests slow clearing: shippers
By Dominique Patton and Muyu Xu BEIJING (Reuters) - Testing of imported food for the novel coronavirus is pushing capacity at some major Chinese ports to their limit, major shippers told customers thi...
Jul 18, 2020
Get dirty at home: COVID-19 moves South Korea's mud festival online
SEOUL (Reuters) - When a pandemic threatens a good romp in the mud, some South Koreans bring the mud home with them instead. The popular Boryeong Mud Festival, halted this year because of COVID-19, in...
Jul 18, 2020
Russian, Azeri defence ministers discuss border clashes
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and his Azeri counterpart Zakir Hasanov discussed clashes on the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Russian news agencies cited the minis...
Jul 18, 2020
Iran has sent black boxes of downed plane to France: official
(Reuters) - Iran has sent the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner that it had accidentally downed in January to France for analysis, a Foreign Ministry official said on Saturday. Some 176 people wer...
Jul 18, 2020
UK pauses daily coronavirus deaths update over potentially faulty data
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Saturday it was pausing its daily update of the death toll from the coronavirus in the United Kingdom after the government ordered a review into the calculation of t...
Jul 18, 2020
U.S. ambassador says EU criticism of Poland 'overblown'
By Justyna Pawlak and Joanna Plucinska WARSAW (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Poland said the European Union's criticism of Poland's adherence to democracy is "overblown", as Warsaw faces cuts to E...
Jul 18, 2020
Ten thousand march in Russian far east in support of detained governor
MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least 10,000 people marched in the Russian far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday, demanding the release of a popular regional governor detained last week on suspicion of mur...
Jul 18, 2020
In Arizona, school reopening sparks protest movement
By Andrew Hay and Brendan O'Brien July 18 (Reuters) - Arizona third-grade teacher Stacy Brosius has been called a "liberal socialist Nazi" and a "whiner and complainer" for leading car-based protests ...
Jul 18, 2020
