Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Exclusive: South Korea to announce on Wednesday measures to ease dollar funding squeeze - officials
By Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will announce measures on Wednesday to ease dollar funding shortages in its local market, two government officials familiar with the matter told Reuters. T...
Mar 17, 2020
Virus-hit Gulf has little room to boost revenue after oil price shock
By Davide Barbuscia DUBAI (Reuters) - The coronavirus outbreak and plunging crude prices are a double blow that leaves Gulf Arab governments with few options to manage fiscal stability while trying to...
Mar 17, 2020
Tesla's U.S. factory to stay open as coronavirus lockdown begins: report
(Reuters) - U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc plans to operate its Fremont factory on Tuesday, when San Francisco's Bay Area begins a three-week lockdown to rein in the spread of a coronavirus, th...
Mar 17, 2020
Kazakhstan reports spike in coronavirus cases
NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's healthcare ministry reported 14 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, raising the total count to 27 in the Central Asian nation. According to minister Yelzhan Birtanov,...
Mar 17, 2020
Japan suicides at historic low in 2019 but more teens kill themselves
TOKYO (Reuters) - Suicides in Japan in 2019 fell to a historic low, marking the tenth straight year of declines, but youth suicides continued to rise, police said on Tuesday. Though suicide in Japan h...
Mar 17, 2020
Vietnam to halt issue of all visas in coronavirus battle
HANOI(Reuters) - Vietnam will suspend the issue of new visas for all foreign nationals to curb the spread of coronavirus in the Southeast Asian nation, state media said on Tuesday. Weeks after declari...
Mar 17, 2020
Musk told Tesla employees in memo to stay home if unwell: sources
BEIJING (Reuters) - Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk sent employees an email on Monday telling them to stay at home if they felt ill or uncomfortable, two people who saw the memo told Reute...
Mar 17, 2020
Coronavirus cluster in Japan's Nagoya tied to elderly day care center
By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - A cluster of coronavirus cases in Japan's Nagoya city has been linked to an elderly day care facility, underscoring the difficulty of shielding the aged from the outbre...
Mar 17, 2020
Pfizer, BioNTech to co-develop potential coronavirus vaccine
(Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc has signed a deal with Germany's BioNTech SE to co-develop a potential vaccine for the coronavirus using BioNTech's mRNA-based drug development platform, the comp...
Mar 17, 2020
Australian researchers map immune response to coronavirus
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian researchers said on Tuesday they have mapped the immune responses from one of country's first coronavirus patients, findings that the health minister sai...
Mar 17, 2020
