Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Timeline: Myanmar’s troubled recent past, ahead of November 8 polls
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar goes to the polls on Nov. 8 in its second general election since the end of full military rule in 2011. Here is a timeline of some key events in the nation's recent rocky hi...
Oct 29, 2020
Social media disinformation campaigns tied to vaccine hesitancy
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - Social media disinformation campaigns designed to cast doubt on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines are contributing to vaccine hesitancy and a meaningful drop...
Oct 29, 2020
Profile of Aung San Suu Kyi ahead of Myanmar’s election
(Reuters) - Aung San Suu Kyi leads her National League for Democracy (NLD) party to the polls on Nov. 8 in Myanmar's second general election since the end of full military rule in 2011. Here are some ...
Oct 29, 2020
Dollar firms, euro hurt after ECB signals further easing
By Eimi Yamamitsu TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar firmed on Friday and the euro wallowed near a four-week low against the greenback after the European Central Bank signalled further monetary easing by th...
Oct 29, 2020
North Korea says shooting death of South Korean man was self-defensive measure
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said the shooting death of a South Korean man in its waters last month was a self-defensive measure amid concerns about the spread of the novel coronaviru...
Oct 29, 2020
Wary of security issues, Japan’s government moves to shut China out of its drone supply chain
By Kaori Kaneko and Izumi Nakagawa TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan may effectively shut off China from supplying drones to its government to protect sensitive information, according to six people in governmen...
Oct 29, 2020
Mainland China reports 25 new COVID-19 cases vs 47 a day earlier
BEIJING (Reuters) - Mainland China reported 25 new COVID-19 cases on Oct. 29, down from 47 a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Friday. Of the new cases, 24 were imported inf...
Oct 29, 2020
Cisco’s Webex Teams suffers outage causing meeting failures
(Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc's team collaboration app Webex Teams suffered an outage for more than two hours on Thursday, but the company later said its services had started to recover. At the time o...
Oct 29, 2020
Battleground Pennsylvania urges counties not to delay counting mail-in ballots
By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pennsylvania officials on Thursday urged local election offices to begin counting mail-in ballots on Election Day, after several Republican-led counties in the ba...
Oct 29, 2020
Online education startup Udemy in talks to raise $100 million in funding: sources
By Krystal Hu and Anirban Sen (Reuters) - Online learning platform Udemy is in advanced talks to raise around $100 million in a new private funding round that will value the online learning platform a...
Oct 29, 2020
