Author Archives: Syndicated Content

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet on Tuesday approved cash handouts worth 51 billion baht ($1.6 billion) in a bid to boost domestic consumption and help an economy suffering from the impacts of t...

(Reuters) - Premier Inn-owner Whitbread said on Tuesday it was planning up to 6,000 redundancies in its hotel and restaurant business, saying they were necessary to protect its business as the COVID-1...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Conduct Authority said on Tuesday it was proposing to stop insurers from charging more to repeat car and home insurance customers than to new clients. When a cus...

LONDON (Reuters) - Specialist insurer Beazley is bracing for claims linked to the novel coronavirus pandemic to double to $340 million, with almost all the estimated increase arising from events cance...

PARIS (Reuters) - European planemaker Airbus will do its best to cut costs without resorting to compulsory redundancies, but it cannot guarantee they won't happen, CEO Guillaume Faury told French radi...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Economists at National Australia Bank said on Tuesday they see a "significant risk" of a cut to the central bank's cash rate and three-year bond yield target to 10 basis points from...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Tuesday advise that people should work from home if they can as part of a package of measures aimed at halting the swiftly accelerating ...

By Jessie Pang and Donny Kwok HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong has no legal basis to demand that any particular rights be extended to 12 Hong Kong people detained in China as they tried to flee by boat...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chinese customs said on Tuesday it will amend the way it supervises crude oil imports as part of a broader effort to boost efficiency, allowing cargoes to clear customs before qu...

By Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India reported 75,083 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to federal health data released on Tuesday, the lowest daily tally in alm...