Author Archives: Syndicated Content
China industrial output rises 7.3% year-on-year in December; retail sales miss forecast
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's industrial output rose at a faster-than-expected rate of 7.3% in December from a year ago, data showed on Monday, expanding for the ninth straight month as the vast manufac...
Jan 17, 2021
China reports 109 new COVID-19 cases as infections persist in northeast
BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported more than 100 new COVID-19 cases for the sixth consecutive day, with rising infections in the northeast fuelling concerns of another national wave ahead of a major h...
Jan 17, 2021
Colombia police seize arms shipment, investigate if destined for Venezuela
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian police are investigating whether a shipment of guns and magazines originating from the United States that was seized by authorities late on Saturday was ...
Jan 17, 2021
NBA postpones Sunday’s Thunder vs. 76ers game
Just hours before tipoff Sunday, the NBA postponed a second game on the day's schedule -- the Philadelphia 76ers at the Oklahoma City Thunder -- expanding the number of games the league has postponed ...
Jan 17, 2021
Dollar pokes higher as U.S. soft data sours mood; China GDP in focus
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar held late-week gains on Monday as softening U.S. economic data and rising coronavirus cases turned investors cautious. Against a basket of currencies the dollar hovere...
Jan 17, 2021
Japan manufacturers’ sentiment stabilises in Jan, services weaken: Reuters Tankan
By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - Sentiment among Japanese manufacturers stabilised in January to the least pessimistic in more than a year from the impact of COVID-19, but service firms grew gloom...
Jan 17, 2021
Big Oil’s flagship plastic waste project sinks on the Ganges
By Joe Brock, John Geddie and Saurabh Sharma SINGAPORE/VARANASI, India (Reuters) - A wheelbarrow and a handful of metal grids for capturing litter, emblazoned with the words "Renew Oceans," sit rustin...
Jan 17, 2021
Timeline: Wuhan, one year after coronavirus lockdown
(Reuters) - China locked down the central city of Wuhan a year ago at the start of the Lunar New Year, the country's biggest holiday, as it battled to contain the spread of a novel coronavirus. Follow...
Jan 17, 2021
Venezuela dispatches oxygen for Brazil’s Amazonas, reeling from COVID-19
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday that a convoy of trucks carrying emergency oxygen supplies for Brazil's northern Amazonas state, where a second wave of the coron...
Jan 17, 2021
Australia unlikely to fully reopen borders in 2021 as virus cases slide
By Swati Pandey SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia may not fully reopen its international borders this year even if most of the population is vaccinated against coronavirus, the head of its health departmen...
Jan 17, 2021
