Author Archives: Syndicated Content
China, U.S. should strive to reduce uncertain factors in trade relations: commerce ministry
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the United States should use the Phase 1 trade deal as an opportunity to strive to reduce uncertain factors in bilateral trade relations and avoid adopting new trade and ...
Apr 23, 2020
China to donate additional $30 million to WHO for COVID-19
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is to donate an additional $30 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) to support the global fight against COVID-19, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying ...
Apr 23, 2020
Record dive in German business activity shows ‘shocking’ coronavirus impact: PMI
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's private sector recession deepened in April as services and manufacturing suffered record falls in output due to the coronavirus outbreak and measures to contain it, a surv...
Apr 23, 2020
Tajik leader urges farmers to delay Ramadan fast
DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon urged local farmers on Thursday to delay fasting for Ramadan so they can stay healthy and productive during the coronavirus pandemic. Muslims aroun...
Apr 23, 2020
UK’s poor testing could slow emergence from lockdown, Deutsche Bank says
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom's poor novel coronavirus testing capacity means that it is likely be one of the world's laggards to exit the stringent lockdown that has so badly hammered its con...
Apr 23, 2020
Merkel says we are still at the start of the coronavirus pandemic
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is still at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and will have to live with it for a long time, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. "We are not living in the fin...
Apr 23, 2020
UK’s Aston Martin plans to restart St Athan unit, cuts executives’ pay
(Reuters) - Aston Martin said on Thursday it plans to restart its St Athan factory in south Wales on May 5 and will also resume operations at Gaydon later, after the coronavirus-led shutdowns forced t...
Apr 23, 2020
‘Just another patient’: New Zealand nurse tells of treating British PM for virus
(Reuters) - A New Zealand nurse who treated British Prime Minister Boris Johnson while he was in hospital with the coronavirus said she saw the world leader as "just another patient" and that she thou...
Apr 23, 2020
French business activity crashes to new record low in April: PMIs
PARIS (Reuters) - French business activity has plunged even more than expected this month to hit a new record low as a nationwide lockdown shuttered shops and factories across the euro zone's second-b...
Apr 23, 2020
European shares gain ahead of business activity data
(Reuters) - European stock markets inched higher on Thursday following a bunch of better-than-expected quarterly earnings reports, even as investors braced for worsening business activity data with th...
Apr 23, 2020
