Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Singapore charges Citadelle director with falsifying letters related to Wirecard
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has charged a director of Citadelle Corporate Services Pte Ltd for falsifying letters related to Wirecard, the troubled German payments firm, according to charge sheets...
Aug 06, 2020
Malaysia charges former finance minister with corruption
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's former finance minister and senior opposition leader Lim Guan Eng was charged with corruption on Friday relating to soliciting a bribe for a $1.5 billion infrastruc...
Aug 06, 2020
Australia’s Victoria state reports 450 new coronavirus cases, 11 deaths
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's second most populous state of Victoria on Friday reported 11 coronavirus-related deaths and 450 new infections in the last 24 hours, compared with eight fatalities and 4...
Aug 06, 2020
Australia central bank warns of GDP hit from Victoria lockdowns
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's central bank on Friday warned that the latest coronavirus containment measures in Victoria state are expected to subtract at least 2 percentage points from national grow...
Aug 06, 2020
After reliving glory days, Kaymer comes out firing in San Francisco
By Rory Carroll SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Martin Kaymer did not expect much coming into the PGA Championship given how little he has played this year but rust did not seem to be a factor after he card...
Aug 06, 2020
Japan’s spending slump eases as economy reopens, COVID-19 clouds outlook
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's household spending fell at a much slower pace in June than in the previous month as the economy re-opened from lockdown measures to contain the coronavirus pa...
Aug 06, 2020
Trump issues order to ban transactions with TikTok’s Chinese owner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order banning any transactions with ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the video-sharing app TikTok, starting i...
Aug 06, 2020
Japan to agree supply deal soon for AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine: Kyodo
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government will soon agree a supply deal for more than 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca Plc, Kyodo news agency reported on Frida...
Aug 06, 2020
Brazil suspends raid on illegal miners in Amazon indigenous land
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Defense Ministry on Thursday suspended operations by environmental agents against illegal miners on an indigenous reservation in the Amazon, saying it was acting at the r...
Aug 06, 2020
Quarantine waived for traveling South American soccer teams
By Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) - The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) agreed with national governments on Thursday that teams traveling around the continent to compete in club ...
Aug 06, 2020
