Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Indonesia reports 634 new coronavirus cases
(Reuters) - Indonesia reported on Friday 634 new cases of coronavirus infection, taking the total in the Southeast Asian nation to 20,796, according to health ministry official Achmad Yurianto. Yurian...
May 22, 2020
Yemen's health system 'has in effect collapsed' as COVID spreads: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Coronavirus is believed to be spreading throughout Yemen, where the health care system "has in effect collapsed", the United Nations said on Friday, appealing for urgent funding. Re...
May 22, 2020
EasyJet founder fails to oust management, proxy votes show
LONDON (Reuters) - EasyJet said founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou had failed in his attempt to oust key management including the CEO, according to the initial results of a shareholder vote brought over the...
May 22, 2020
China's Geely to explore deeper cooperation with Daimler: chairman
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Geely will explore the possibility of deeper cooperation with German luxury automaker Daimler AG , its Chairman Li Shufu said on Friday. Geely built a 9.69% stake in Stuttg...
May 22, 2020
Column: Coronavirus is dark side of an urban interconnected world - Kemp
By John Kemp LONDON (Reuters) - Like earlier pandemics, the coronavirus is the dark side of a highly productive, urbanised, interconnected and increasingly prosperous world. Yet urbanisation has persi...
May 22, 2020
Ryanair's Lauda airline to close Vienna base, 300 jobs to go
VIENNA (Reuters) - Ryanair's Austrian airline Lauda on Friday said it would shut down its main Vienna base on May 29 with the loss of more than 300 jobs in Austria after it did not manage to agree new...
May 22, 2020
Japan's finance minister, central bank governor meet on pandemic response
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso and Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda met in Tokyo, the finance ministry said on Friday, in a show of resolve to coordinate fiscal and monetar...
May 22, 2020
George Soros says coronavirus threatens EU's survival
LONDON (Reuters) - George Soros, the billionaire financier, has cautioned that the European Union's survival was threatened by the novel coronavirus unless it could issue perpetual bonds or "consols" ...
May 22, 2020
Amazon to hire 50,000 temp workers in India as lockdown boosts demand
BENGALURU (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's India unit said it would hire 50,000 temporary workers to meet a surge in online shopping in the country, where customers have been stuck indoors for two months ...
May 22, 2020
Tokyo 2020 logo satire pulled after furore
By Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - A media association has withdrawn its coronavirus-themed parody of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics logo after the local organising committee called it offensive and a viol...
May 22, 2020
