Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Taiwan welcomes back visitors after ending COVID quarantine rules
By Ann Wang TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan began welcoming back visitors on Thursday after finally ending mandatory quarantines to control the spread of COVID-19, with gifts of cuddly toy black be...
Oct 12, 2022
Australia, PNG defence to work together under proposed security pact
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia wants to strike an "ambitious" security treaty with neighbour Papua New Guinea that will see navy, airforce and army personnel from each nation working a...
Oct 12, 2022
Australia’s Medibank reports cyber incident
(Reuters) - Australian health insurer Medibank Private said on Thursday it would isolate and remove access to some customer-facing systems as it detected unusual activity on its network. The company s...
Oct 12, 2022
When Chinese protesters came up against Xi’s security machine
By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) - Jack Yao, a Chinese Communist Party member, never wanted to be an activist. Having escaped rural poverty and joined Beijing's middle classes through decades ...
Oct 12, 2022
Holocaust survivor to oversee start of rightist Italian parliament
By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Italy's new parliament opens on Thursday, with a Holocaust survivor due to preside over the first session of the upper house Senate as the most right-wing coalition...
Oct 12, 2022
Toshiba shares surge following report of $19 billion buyout bid
TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares in Toshiba Corp jumped about 9% in early trading on Thursday following a report that a domestic-led consortium is looking to buy the Japanese conglomerate for 2.8 trillion yen...
Oct 12, 2022
Oil prices shaky amid worsening demand outlook
By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) - Oil prices struggled to find their footing in early Asian trade on Thursday after a weakening global demand outlook depressed the market in the last session. U.S. crude f...
Oct 12, 2022
LatAm ministers call for finance tools to protect against climate disasters
(Reuters) - Finance ministers from across Latin America and the Caribbean on Wednesday called on the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to look at new finance tools to mitigate the economic shock o...
Oct 12, 2022
Carbon credit use could curb company climate action, warns UK advisers
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) - The use of cheap carbon offsets by companies to meet net zero targets could curb their efforts to cut emissions and slow the delivery of climate goals, Britain's ...
Oct 12, 2022
Japan Inc strongly backs defence spending, many firms near limit on weak yen – Reuters poll
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese firms overwhelmingly support increasing defence spending amid heightened sabre-rattling in Asia, according to a Reuters monthly poll on Thursday, which also s...
Oct 12, 2022
