Category Archives: Syndicated
Amazon to hire 50,000 temp workers in India as lockdown boosts demand
BENGALURU (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's India unit said it would hire 50,000 temporary workers to meet a surge in online shopping in the country, where customers have been stuck indoors for two months ...
May 22, 2020
Tokyo 2020 logo satire pulled after furore
By Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - A media association has withdrawn its coronavirus-themed parody of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics logo after the local organising committee called it offensive and a viol...
May 22, 2020
Gaza’s young female boxers train on the beach amid coronavirus closures
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Trading jabs and punches, a team of young female boxers - some as young as four - trained on the beach in Gaza this week after their club was closed due to COVID-...
May 22, 2020
Indonesia probes breach of data on more than two million voters
By Stanley Widianto and Fanny Potkin JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's election commission is investigating the release of 2.3 million voters' private information on a hacker website along with a threat...
May 22, 2020
Bank of America calls top of cash mountain, cautions on ‘fake markets’
LONDON (Reuters) - Analysts at BofA said the cash mountain stockpiled by investors during the coronavirus outbreak looks to have now peaked and cautioned that rampant central bank stimulus was fixing ...
May 22, 2020
Malaysia reports 78 new coronavirus cases with 1 new death
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian health authorities on Friday reported 78 new coronavirus cases, raising the cumulative total to 7,137 cases. The health ministry also reported one new death, bringin...
May 22, 2020
Nobel winner attacks lack of British leadership through COVID-19
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has been left to play catch up and firefight its way through the coronavirus pandemic due to a "desperate" lack of clear leadership, one of its most renowned scientists said...
May 22, 2020
Hong Kong bankers worry that new laws could lead to capital flight
By Sumeet Chatterjee and Scott Murdoch HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's plans to impose national security legislation in Hong Kong are expected to lead to the flight of capital and talent from the Asian ...
May 22, 2020
Philippines reports 11 coronavirus deaths, 163 more cases
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines on Friday recorded 11 additional coronavirus deaths and 163 more infections, the lowest daily increase in cases in nearly two weeks, health ministry said. In a bulle...
May 22, 2020
Germany shuts another abattoir after workers get coronavirus
HAMBURG (Reuters) - German authorities said they closed another abattoir after an outbreak of coronavirus among its workers. The plant, in Dissen in north Germany, had already been on reduced operatio...
May 22, 2020
