Category Archives: Syndicated
Mirae Asset scraps $5.8 billion deal to buy U.S. hotels from China’s Anbang
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments said on Monday that it has terminated a $5.8 billion deal to buy 15 U.S. hotels from China's Anbang Insurance Group [ANBANG.UL]. The asse...
May 04, 2020
Trump administration pushing to rip global supply chains from China: officials
By Humeyra Pamuk and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is "turbocharging" an initiative to remove global industrial supply chains from China as it weighs new tariffs to pun...
May 04, 2020
Thailand reports 18 new coronavirus cases, no new deaths
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's new coronavirus cases rose to 18 on Monday, after falling to single-digits for the past week, but the country reported no new deaths. Monday's report brought the total n...
May 04, 2020
Pandemic slams Asia’s factories, activity hits financial-crisis lows
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asia's factory activity was ravaged in April, business surveys showed on Monday, and the outlook dimmed further as government restrictions on movement to contain the coronavirus out...
May 03, 2020
New Zealand’s Ardern asks citizens to follow virus-linked curbs even as no new cases reported
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern asked citizens to stay the course on social restrictions still in place to contain the coronavirus, and said no decision had been taken...
May 03, 2020
Indonesia’s March foreign tourist arrivals plunge 64%
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's foreign tourist arrivals plunged 64.11% year-on-year in March to about 470,900, or fewer than half of January's number, as the coronavirus pandemic discouraged travel, ...
May 03, 2020
Indonesia’s inflation rate slowed more than expected in April
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's inflation rate cooled more than expected in April as curbs to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus continued to dampen demand, data from the country's statistics...
May 03, 2020
Bangkok’s street food hub of Chinatown comes alive as lockdown eases
By Jiraporn Kuhakan BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has loosened restrictions on some businesses after progress in containing the coronavirus, bringing life back to the streets, including the hawker-food...
May 03, 2020
Citi names veteran Rizvi as APAC corporate banking head: memo
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc has named veteran banker Kaleem Rizvi as its Asia Pacific head of the corporate banking business, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters on Monday. Rizvi...
May 03, 2020
China’s young spenders say #ditchyourstuff as economy sputters
By Lusha Zhang and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - Tang Yue, a 27-year-old teacher from the city of Guilin in southwest China, steam-presses a blue dress and takes dozens of photographs before picking on...
May 03, 2020
