Author Archives: Syndicated Content
No UK port problems so far for Jaguar Land Rover
(Reuters) - Luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover has not seen any impact so far from issues at UK ports, its parent Tata Motors said on Thursday, even as many countries cut transport ties with Britain du...
Dec 24, 2020
Ethiopia's PM says forces have been sent into Benishangul-Gumuz region
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday he had deployed forces to the western Benishangul-Gumuz region, a day after gunmen killed more than 100 people in the area...
Dec 24, 2020
Scarred by 2020, Gen Z looks to a COVID-free future
(Reuters) - Lives that had been focussed on school, university, sports or even going to K-pop concerts vanished overnight for members of Gen Z as the global pandemic struck. While a lot was heard abou...
Dec 24, 2020
Youth unemployment: a scourge of the COVID-19 economy
(Reuters) - As 2020 was dawning, the oldest members of the world's youngest generation - Generation Z - were preparing to emerge into one of the strongest global job markets in decades. That promising...
Dec 24, 2020
Japan may intervene to arrest yen rise but only once, says former currency tsar
By Leika Kihara and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan may intervene in the foreign exchange market to prevent the yen from rising above 100 to the dollar, but just once given the difficulty o...
Dec 24, 2020
Olympics: Domestic sponsors agree to extend contracts for delayed Tokyo games
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 organisers said on Thursday that all 68 domestic sponsors for the Summer Olympics agreed in principle to extend their contracts for the delayed games. The Tokyo Olympics h...
Dec 24, 2020
Anti-Myanmar hate speech flares in Thailand over virus
By Panarat Thepgumpanat, Shoon Naing and Matthew Tostevin BANGKOK (Reuters) - "Wherever you see Myanmar people, shoot them down," read one Thai comment on YouTube after a surge of coronavirus cases am...
Dec 24, 2020
Ukraine coronavirus cases rise past one million
KYIV (Reuters) - A total of 1.001 million coronavirus cases has been registered in Ukraine as of Dec. 24, with 17,395 deaths and 631,435 people recovered, Ukrainian health minister Maksym Stepanov sai...
Dec 24, 2020
Iran foreign minister dismisses Trump's tweet that Tehran behind attack on U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
(Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister on Thursday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump's allegations that Iran was behind the recent rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. "Putting your own citi...
Dec 24, 2020
Thailand confirms 67 new coronavirus infections
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand confirmed 67 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, of which nine were imported from overseas, the public health ministry said. All but three of the 58 locally transmitte...
Dec 23, 2020
