Category Archives: Syndicated
Japan hospitals cut staff bonuses as coronavirus drives them into the red
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - About a third of Japanese medical institutions are cutting summer bonuses to staff, a trade union said on Monday, as many hospitals and clinics face a cash crunch, hav...
Jul 13, 2020
Counting the burials: African nations scramble to track COVID-19
By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Long after the funding for his project was frozen, Bilal Endris has kept a lonely watch over cemeteries in Ethiopia's capital by slipping cash to gravedigg...
Jul 13, 2020
Smartphone shipments in China fall 16% in June: government data
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Smartphone shipments in China fell 16% in June compared with a year earlier, according to government data released on Tuesday. The numbers suggest that handset demand in China rem...
Jul 13, 2020
Alibaba’s Jack Ma sells $9.6 billion worth shares, stake dips to 4.8%: filing
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd co-founder Jack Ma has cut his stake in the company over the past year to 4.8% from 6.4%, cashing out around $9.6 billion at its current share price, the...
Jul 13, 2020
BT warns UK: Do not go too fast on banning Huawei
LONDON (Reuters) - BT CEO Philip Jansen on Monday urged the British government not to move too fast to ban China's Huawei from the 5G network, cautioning that if it did there could be outages and poss...
Jul 13, 2020
Actress Kelly Preston, wife of John Travolta, dies at 57
(Reuters) - American actress Kelly Preston who has appeared in films including "Jerry Maguire" and "Twins", has died aged 57 after battling breast cancer for nearly two years, her husband, John Travol...
Jul 13, 2020
Elvis Presley’s grandson dies aged 27
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A little-known member of one of rock 'n' roll music's royal families, Benjamin Keough, grandson of the late Elvis Presley and only son of the "The King's" daug...
Jul 13, 2020
Olympics must go ahead next year as symbol of overcoming COVID-19, Tokyo governor says
By Linda Sieg and Ami Miyazaki TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, often floated as a future Japanese premier, said on Monday the Olympics must go ahead next year as a symbol of world unity...
Jul 13, 2020
Pause, reflect: Five questions for the ECB
By Dhara Ranasinghe and Ritvik Carvalho LONDON (Reuters) - For the first time in months, the European Central Bank has reason to break from crisis-fighting mode -- economic activity is picking up afte...
Jul 13, 2020
Macau junket Suncity gives rare details VIP finances in rebuttal of online criticism
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Macau's biggest junket operator Suncity, which operates VIP gambling rooms across Asia, has given rare insight into its balance sheet during a rebuttal of online criticism, sayin...
Jul 13, 2020
