Category Archives: Syndicated
Activist-backed nominee to Toshiba board wins 43% shareholder support
TOKYO (Reuters) - About 43% of Toshiba Corp shareholders backed an activist fund's proposal to elect its co-founder as board director, vote results showed on Tuesday, potentially increasing pressure o...
Aug 03, 2020
Australia’s Victoria state to impose penalties for breaching COVID-19 isolation orders
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's second-most populous state Victoria said on Tuesday anyone who has contracted COVID-19 and caught outside their home in breach of isolation orders will face fines of nea...
Aug 03, 2020
SoftBank under-reported income by $380 million: source
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp under-reported income to Japan's tax authorities by around 40 billion yen ($380 million) in the financial year ended March 2019, a person with knowl...
Aug 03, 2020
‘Speaker Brother’: Loudspeakers teach Indian children after virus shutters schools
By Prashant Waydande DANDWAL, India (Reuters) - One overcast morning in a farming village in hilly western India, a group of schoolchildren sat on the mud floor of a wooden shed for their first class ...
Aug 03, 2020
Japan set to mark 75 years since Hiroshima, Nagasaki atomic bombing
TOKYO (Reuters) - Thursday marks 75 years since the United States unleashed the world's first atomic bomb attack on the city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by the second and last on Nagasaki,...
Aug 03, 2020
China reports 36 new coronavirus cases in mainland vs 43 a day earlier
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported 36 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Aug. 3, compared to 43 cases a day earlier, the health commission said on Tuesday. Of the new infections, six were impo...
Aug 03, 2020
Japan’s Yasukuni shrine a symbol of haunting wartime legacy
By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Seventy-five years after Japan's defeat in World War Two, Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead is a potent symbol of the controversy that persists over the conflict's l...
Aug 03, 2020
The survivor: last Korean war criminal in Japan wants recognition
By Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) - To the casual observer, 95-year-old Lee Hak-rae could be just another elderly person in Japan. Surrounded by pictures of his family and paintings by his great-grandchi...
Aug 03, 2020
China will retaliate if Chinese journalists in U.S. forced out
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will take retaliatory measures should all Chinese journalists based in the United States be forced to leave the country, including targeting U.S. journalists in Hong Kong, G...
Aug 03, 2020
China will not accept U.S. ‘theft’ of TikTok: China Daily
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will not accept the "theft" of a Chinese technology company and is able to respond to Washington's move to push ByteDance to sell short-video app TikTok's U.S. operations to...
Aug 03, 2020
