Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Chinese users saw Zoom as a window through the 'Great Firewall'
By Huizhong Wu and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) - Zoom Video Communications has gained a following in China in recent months from users ranging from underground churches to feminists who saw it as a r...
Jun 12, 2020
Chinese capital reports new coronavirus cases for second day
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's capital reported two new coronavirus infections on Friday, a day after it declared its first case in nearly two months, prompting officials to delay plans for some students...
Jun 12, 2020
Finland's parliament questions legality of EU recovery plan
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The Finnish parliament's constitutional committee on Friday queried the legal grounds for the European Union's proposed 750-billion-euro coronavirus recovery package, urging Finla...
Jun 12, 2020
Facebook's deal for Giphy to be probed by UK watchdog
(Reuters) - Facebook's deal for popular GIF website Giphy has caught the eye of UK's competition watchdog, which said on Friday it had begun a probe into the deal for possibly reducing competition in ...
Jun 12, 2020
South Africa should consider zero-based budgeting, finance minister says
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa should think about moving to a zero-based budget, the finance minister said on Friday, ahead of an emergency budget dealing with the economic impact of the COVID-19 ...
Jun 12, 2020
Slow start for India's ambitious plan to resuscitate small businesses
By Nupur Anand and Manoj Kumar MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's ambitious plan to provide some 3 trillion rupees ($39.5 billion) in loans to small businesses to boost an economy ravaged by the cor...
Jun 12, 2020
Knocked off their perch: protesters target empire builders, Confederate symbols
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Once feted as pioneers, some of the architects of Europe's empire building now face a backlash: anti-racism protesters are demanding their legacies be revisited...
Jun 12, 2020
Lufthansa to offer coronavirus testing at German airports
BERLIN (Reuters) - German airline group Lufthansa plans to offer coronavirus tests at airports in Frankfurt and Munich, a spokesman said on Friday. The tests would be conducted through partnering test...
Jun 12, 2020
Mitchelton-Scott becomes Team Manuela Fundacion in sponsor switch
(Reuters) - Spanish charity Manuela Fundacion is becoming Mitchelton-Scott's main sponsor for the remainder of the season and into 2021, the Australian elite team said on Friday. "After an unsettling ...
Jun 12, 2020
With U.S. spy comedy on bill, Moscow drive-in cinema re-opens
By Olga Popova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians got a taste of open-air cinema under balmy twilit skies on Thursday when a Moscow drive-in movie theater re-opened for business after the city's coronavirus ...
Jun 12, 2020
