Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Indonesia's June foreign visitor arrivals down 88.8% year-on-year: stats bureau
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Foreign visitor arrivals in Indonesia in June dropped 88.8% from a year earlier to 160,300, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted global travel, data from the statistics bureau sho...
Aug 02, 2020
Singapore to make travellers wear electronic tags to enforce quarantine
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore will make some incoming travellers wear an electronic monitoring device to ensure that they comply with coronavirus quarantines as the city-state gradually reopens its ...
Aug 02, 2020
Philippine economy fears as coronavirus curbs reintroduced
By Neil Jerome Morales and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines stock market tumbled on Monday after the government reimposed coronavirus lockdown measures in and around Manila in response to...
Aug 02, 2020
Mass jailbreak in Afghanistan as IS fighters battle Afghan forces
By Ahmed Sultan JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Islamic State militants were battling Afghan security forces in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Monday morning, after an overnight assault on a pris...
Aug 02, 2020
In milestone year, A-bomb survivor keeps up fight for nuclear disarmament
By Akiko Okamoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Terumi Tanaka was 13 when a U.S. warplane dropped a plutonium bomb on the southern Japanese city of Nagasaki, on Aug. 9, 1945. Sitting at home with a book that morni...
Aug 02, 2020
India reports 52,972 new coronavirus infections
BENGALURU (Reuters) - India reported 52,972 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 1.8 million, data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare showed on Monday. With...
Aug 02, 2020
Tailored Brands files for bankruptcy as pandemic hammers sales
(Reuters) - Men's Wearhouse owner Tailored Brands filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, adding to a list of brick-and-mortar retailers that have succumbed to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 crisis. T...
Aug 02, 2020
Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 509 to 210,402: RKI
BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 509 to 210,402, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Monday. The reported de...
Aug 02, 2020
Sri Lanka's Rajapaksas hope to tighten grip on power in election
By Arjuna Ranawana COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa hopes to tighten his hold on the nation's fractious politics in an election on Wednesday that could elevate his brother a...
Aug 02, 2020
Golf: Werenski earns first career win at Barracuda Championship
(Reuters) - Richy Werenski made three birdies and an eagle in his final seven holes to surge past Troy Merritt and claim his maiden PGA Tour victory at the Barracuda Championship on Sunday. Werenski b...
Aug 02, 2020
