Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Myanmar launches vaccination drive, prioritises frontline healthcare workers
By Shoon Naing YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar launched a COVID-19 vaccination programme on Wednesday, with healthcare staff and volunteer medical workers the first to receive shots of the AstraZenca and O...
Jan 27, 2021
Column: Bubble-wary markets eye ETF crush in tech and crypto – Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) - Is the presumed proliferation of market bubbles just speculative froth among amateur traders or is concentrated institutional money blowing big soapy spheres that inte...
Jan 27, 2021
Sanofi confirms its will supply over 125 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses to the EU
PARIS (Reuters) - French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi said on Wednesday it had struck an agreement with Germany's BioNTech to supply the European Union with the company's vaccine developed in partnersh...
Jan 27, 2021
SoftBank ties up with Iris Ohyama to recharge robotics ambitions
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp's robotics unit announced on Wednesday a joint venture with Japanese electronics maker Iris Ohyama, as the conglomerate looks to juice up its roboti...
Jan 27, 2021
NHL roundup: Panthers reach 3-0-0 for first time
Patric Hornqvist scored with three seconds left in regulation and then got the deciding goal in a shootout, leading the Florida Panthers to a 4-3 win over the host Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday nig...
Jan 27, 2021
ByteDance says reducing India workforce, unsure of comeback: memo
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - China's ByteDance has decided to reduce the size of its India team and is unsure when the company will make a comeback in India, it said in an internal memo to em...
Jan 27, 2021
Nadal, Serena support strict COVID-19 protocols in Australia
(Reuters) - Rafa Nadal feels tennis players are privileged to be able to compete at the Australian Open during the COVID-19 pandemic and urged fellow participants to have a wider perspective of the st...
Jan 27, 2021
Exclusive: Sinopharm-led consortium plans $3.3 billion take-private of HK-listed China TCM – sources
By Julie Zhu and Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - A consortium led by state-owned pharma giant Sinopharm plans to take private China Traditional Chinese Medicine Holdings in a deal that would value the f...
Jan 27, 2021
BOJ’s ETF buying not distorting markets, Kuroda says
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Wednesday rebuffed criticism that the central bank's purchases of exchange-traded funds (ETF) were distorting markets, sugge...
Jan 27, 2021
Japan’s COVID crisis reawakens deflation fears as cash hoarding returns
By Leika Kihara and Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - A spike in coronavirus infections in Japan is driving local households to do what they have always done in times of crisis: spend less and save more,...
Jan 27, 2021
