Category Archives: Syndicated
Coronavirus Food Assistance Program Expands to Include More Farmers
The Department of Agriculture announced that they’ve expanded eligibility for the CFAP to include more commodities. This means that more farmers will be able to get some relief. The deadline for...
Aug 20, 2020
Philippines confirms 4,339 more coronavirus cases, 88 deaths
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine health ministry on Thursday reported 4,339 new coronavirus infections and 88 additional deaths. It said total confirmed infections have risen to 178,022 while deaths ...
Aug 20, 2020
Russia says U.S. statements on fresh imposition of Iran sanctions are absurd: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia described statements by the United States on reimposing U.N. sanctions against Iran as absurd, adding that it has no legal or political grounds to do so, the RIA news agency ...
Aug 20, 2020
Indonesia sees 2,266 new coronavirus infections, 72 deaths
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported 2,266 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, bringing the total number of cases in the Southeast Asian country to 147,211. Data from the health ministry showed ...
Aug 20, 2020
Fed to cut one-week dollar swap operations with major central banks
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve will cut the number of seven-day swap operations with major central banks to one tender per week from three from Sept. 1 as funding conditions have impro...
Aug 20, 2020
In U.S.-China tech war, investors bet on China’s localisation push
By Samuel Shen and Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI (Reuters) - As the U.S.-China "tech war" widens, investors are betting on China's efforts to replace U.S. technologies with indigenous applications to run netw...
Aug 20, 2020
Nigeria’s wet markets thrive despite coronavirus pandemic
By Angela Ukomadu and Libby George LAGOS (Reuters) - Just a few months after Epe Fish Market was under lockdown to stem the spread of the new coronavirus, vendors at the site in the southern Nigerian ...
Aug 20, 2020
Merkel’s conservatives clash with Scholz over debt brake
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has raised the ire of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives with his proposal to suspend the constitutionally enshrined debt brake in 2021 aft...
Aug 20, 2020
China’s Supreme Court slashes ceiling of legal private lending rate
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Supreme People's Court said on Thursday that it will slash the ceiling of the private lending rate protected by law, a move to crackdown on usurious loans and lower the cos...
Aug 20, 2020
China’s EV maker Nio launches battery leasing service
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio Inc has launched a battery leasing service which will allow drivers to buy an EV without owning the battery pack - one of the most ...
Aug 20, 2020
