Author Archives: Syndicated Content
China says to promote U.S. business ties on basis of ‘mutual respect’
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pledged on Friday to promote business ties with the United States based on "mutual respect" that benefit both countries. The world's two largest economie...
Mar 04, 2021
Japan supercomputer shows doubling masks offers little help preventing viral spread
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese supercomputer simulations showed that wearing two masks gave limited benefit in blocking viral spread compared with one properly fitted mask. The findings in ...
Mar 04, 2021
China to strengthen risk assessments for financial innovation products: 2021-2025 plan
BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to strengthen the risk assessment procedures for financial innovation products, including by suspending the operation of some products, the government said on Friday in...
Mar 04, 2021
Advisers of New York’s Cuomo altered report on nursing home deaths: papers
(Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's top advisers had successfully pushed the state's health officials to strip a public report of data that showed more nursing-home residents had died of COVI...
Mar 04, 2021
New Zealand to lift coronavirus lockdown in biggest city on Sunday
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the government will on Sunday lift a lockdown in the country's largest city of Auckland which was prompted by just one new case ...
Mar 04, 2021
Australia says inquiry spurred by rape allegations to report findings in November
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An independent inquiry into the workplace culture of Australia's Parliament launched after several rape allegations involving staff members of the ruling Liberal party will report...
Mar 04, 2021
China pledges to build ‘Polar Silk Road’ over 2021-2025
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will construct a "Polar Silk Road" and actively participate in the development of Arctic and Antarctic regions, it said in its new 2021-2025 "five-year plan" published on Fr...
Mar 04, 2021
China state planner says to make birth policy ‘more inclusive’
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's state planner said on Friday that it would make the country's birth policy "more inclusive," while trying to reduce the costs of having children, amid mounting concerns ove...
Mar 04, 2021
J&J loses appeal in Australian pelvic mesh class action
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian court on Friday dismissed an appeal by Johnson & Johnson against a ruling that its subsidiary Ethicon had misled patients and surgeons about the risks of its pelvic...
Mar 04, 2021
China to cut energy intensity by around 3% in 2021: work report
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will cut energy intensity, a ratio that measures how much is used in driving economic growth, by around 3% in 2021 as it bids to meet long-term climate goals, Premier Li Keq...
Mar 04, 2021
