Category Archives: Syndicated
Japan’s household spending slumps by record as curbs hit travel, dining out
By Daniel Leussink and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's household spending fell at the fastest pace on record in May, as consumers heeded authorities' calls to stay home to contain the cor...
Jul 07, 2020
In Tokyo, a temple offers pandemic-hit Vietnamese workers a safe haven
By Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - A few hours after sundown last week, Thi Tu Luong dragged her suitcase down a side street in Tokyo's business district, looking for the temple that would take her ...
Jul 07, 2020
Deutsche Bank and Google agree multi-year, strategic partnership
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank said on Tuesday it has agreed a strategic, multi-year partnership with Google to give the German lender access to cloud services and drive innovation in technology-...
Jul 07, 2020
Malaysian police to summon Al Jazeera journalists over report on migrant arrests
By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police on Tuesday said they will summon reporters of news broadcaster Al Jazeera for questioning over a documentary on the country's arrests of und...
Jul 07, 2020
German industrial output rebounds in May but not as much as forecast
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's industrial production rebounded in May, rising by 7.8% on the month after falling by a revised 17.5% in April, the Statistics Office said on Tuesday, in the latest sign th...
Jul 07, 2020
Deutsche Telekom intensifies partnership with Huawei: Handelsblatt
BERLIN (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom has intensified its business relationship with China's Huawei despite security authorities' warnings, Handelsblatt newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing internal do...
Jul 07, 2020
Italian cabinet approves ‘mother of all reforms’ to slash red tape
By Gavin Jones and Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government approved a package of measures on Tuesday aimed at cutting the complicated red tape that has long been blamed for crimping gro...
Jul 07, 2020
Voting in time of the coronavirus, Singaporeans question foreign hires
By Tom Westbrook and Aradhana Aravindan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - For many Singaporeans, voting on Friday under the cloud of the coronavirus pandemic, a big election issue is job prospects and whether the...
Jul 07, 2020
UAE says it will test 2 million people for COVID-19 as cases rise
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates plans to test two million people, or about 20% of the population, for the novel coronavirus over the next two months after the infection rate climbed again f...
Jul 07, 2020
Currency crisis impoverishes Iranians, strains economic defenses
By Parisa Hafezi and Davide Barbuscia DUBAI (Reuters) - Desperate to afford her daughter's overseas university fees, 58-year-old retired Iranian teacher Maryam Hosseini withdrew all her savings from t...
Jul 07, 2020
