Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Japan's Suga calls on citizens to spend "silent New Year" to stop coronavirus
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called on citizens on Friday to spend a "silent" New Year to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, which has been breaking infection records a...
Dec 25, 2020
Japan tightens procurement rules after outcry over COVID relief spending
By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's trade ministry unveiled a raft of public procurement reforms on Friday following an outcry over a deal to disburse coronavirus relief to struggling busin...
Dec 25, 2020
India's Modi calls farmer protests over contested laws politically motivated
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that protests by farmers against three laws brought by his government were politically motivated, as he touted the success of an ...
Dec 25, 2020
China issues draft rules on bank units' sales of wealth management products
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's banking and insurance regulator issued draft guidelines on Friday on sales of wealth management products by commercial banks' wealth management subsidiaries. China will all...
Dec 25, 2020
Indonesia records highest daily increase in COVID-19 deaths
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia recorded its biggest daily rise in COVID-19 deaths on Friday with 258 fatalities, taking the total to 20,847, data by the country's health ministry showed. The data showe...
Dec 25, 2020
Russia reports 29,018 new COVID-19 cases, 563 deaths
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday reported 29,018 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, including 7,315 in Moscow, taking the national total to 2,992,706 since the pandemic began. Authorities sai...
Dec 25, 2020
Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to weed out tiny firms from Topix, start new index
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Tokyo Stock Exchange said on Friday it will gradually remove companies with market capitalisation of less than 10 billion yen ($96.59 million), or about 1 percent of all listed s...
Dec 25, 2020
Explainer: The new coronavirus variant in South Africa - Are concerns justified?
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has identified a new variant of the novel coronavirus, which authorities believe is driving a surge in COVID-19 infections that could overwhelm its healthcare sys...
Dec 25, 2020
Ivorian Christians celebrate Christmas in giant basilica
By Loucoumane Coulibaly YAMOUSSOUKRO (Reuters) - Thousands of people gathered for Christmas mass at the giant Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro late on Thursday to mark the end of a year m...
Dec 25, 2020
Russian opposition activist Lyubov Sobol taken in for police questioning - ally
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police raided the home of opposition activist Lyubov Sobol early on Friday and then took her in for questioning, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and his supporters said. Naval...
Dec 25, 2020
