Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Cathay Pacific pilots push for seat at table for restructuring talks
By Jamie Freed SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pilots at Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd are pushing to be included in restructuring talks at the carrier and will run a newspaper advertisement to drum up pu...
Sep 29, 2020
India reports lowest daily COVID-19 deaths since August 3
BENGALURU (Reuters) - India reported its smallest daily rise in coronavirus deaths since Aug. 3 of 776, data from the health ministry showed on Tuesday, as global fatalities crossed 1 million and infe...
Sep 29, 2020
Indian house prices to fall 6% this year, risk to downside: Reuters poll
By Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU (Reuters) - Indian house prices will fall more sharply this year than expected just three months ago amid surging coronavirus cases which are hurting demand in an economy f...
Sep 29, 2020
Walmart looking at up to $25 billion investment in Tata Group’s ‘super app’: Mint
BENGALURU (Reuters) - Walmart Inc is in talks with Tata Group for an investment of up to $25 billion in the Indian salt-to-software conglomerate's new "super app", the Mint newspaper reported on Tuesd...
Sep 28, 2020
Slain South Korean man tried to defect to North Korea: Coast Guard
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - The missing South Korean fisheries official killed by North Korean soldiers at sea last week had expressed his willingness to defect to the soldiers, South Korea's Co...
Sep 28, 2020
Japan’s megabanks to extend four trillion yen in loans to NTT for NTT Docomo acquisition: Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's three major banks and some others are set to extend about 4 trillion yen ($37.9 billion) in coordinated loans to NTT for the acquisition of its mobile carrier, the Nikkei bus...
Sep 28, 2020
South Korea on alert over holidays despite slight drop in COVID-19 cases
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea appealed on Tuesday for strict social-distancing despite a slight fall in the number of its new coronavirus cases, with millions of people set to travel f...
Sep 28, 2020
China’s ‘dual-circulation’ model not a short-term response to COVID-19, U.S. frictions: adviser
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's new "dual circulation" economic strategy proposed by President Xi Jinping is not a short-term measure to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic or frictions with the United States...
Sep 28, 2020
China faces arduous task in achieving new economic growth model: advisor
BEIJING (Reuters) - China faces a very arduous task in achieving a new growth model and must rely on reforms in order to do so, an advisor to the Chinese cabinet said on Tuesday. Yao Jingyuan, the for...
Sep 28, 2020
Two-time World Series winner Johnstone dies at 74
Former major league outfielder Jay Johnstone, who was known as both an elite pinch hitter and one of baseball's most famous pranksters of his day, has died at age 74. Los Angeles television station FO...
Sep 28, 2020
