Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Australian zoo welcomes rare echidna puggle
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Sydney's Taronga Zoo unveiled a rare short-beaked echidna puggle on Friday, born to mum Gunyi at its breeding facility around seven months ago. The puggle, the tenth born at the Syd...
May 07, 2021
Philippines tightens controls on inbound travellers over COVID-19 variants
MANILA (Reuters) - Travellers entering the Philippines will be required to undergo 14 days of quarantine, up from a week previously, as authorities try to contain more infectious coronavirus variants,...
May 07, 2021
Myanmar junta says seeks stability before allowing ASEAN envoy visit
(Reuters) - Myanmar's ruling junta is focusing on creating a stable situation in the country before agreeing to allow a visit by a Southeast Asian envoy, as part of a five-point consensus agreed by re...
May 07, 2021
Column: Central banks stretched in fighting inequality
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) - Central banks' new-found zest for tackling inequality suggests that they were at least partly responsible for it in the first place - but some influential voices are p...
May 07, 2021
Lost in the Mediterranean, a starving grey whale must find his way home soon
By Alexandre Minguez ARGELES-SUR-MER, France (Reuters) - A young grey whale lost in the Mediterranean, thousands of miles away from its natural habitat in the Pacific ocean, is desperately seeking its...
May 07, 2021
Germany says production capacity, not patents, key to upping vaccine output
BERLIN (Reuters) - The main challenge to raising production of COVID-19 vaccines is how to quickly and effectively transfer technology, Germany's health minister said Friday, reiterating Berlin's oppo...
May 07, 2021
UK construction keeps up rapid growth in April as lockdown lifts – PMI
LONDON (Reuters) - British construction activity expanded quickly last month, almost matching the six-and-a-half-year record struck in March as a lifting of coronavirus lockdown measures boosted new o...
May 07, 2021
Hong Kong shortens coronavirus quarantine for vaccinated residents
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong authorities said on Friday residents who have been fully vaccinated can spend a shorter time in quarantine if they have been exposed to a COVID-19 patient, after thousa...
May 07, 2021
Take Five: Spring is (finally) in the air
(Reuters) - 1/ THE GREAT REOPENING After weeks of COVID-19 lockdowns, a reopening of European economies is close, and boosting sentiment. Tuesday's German ZEW sentiment survey could confirm a brighten...
May 07, 2021
Third wave of pandemic “appears to be broken”: German health minister
BERLIN (Reuters) - The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic appears to be broken, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday, as social distancing measures and an accelerating vaccination camp...
May 07, 2021
