Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Samsung Elec wins $6.7 billion Verizon order for network equipment
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics said on Monday its U.S. unit won a 7.9 trillion won ($6.7 billion) order to provide wireless communication solutions to Verizon in the United States. The order is...
Sep 06, 2020
Tahlequah, ‘Tour of Grief’ killer whale, gives birth
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - An endangered killer whale named "Tahlequah," which famously carried her dead calf on her head in mourning for 17 days through the Salish Sea off British Columbia in 201...
Sep 06, 2020
Typhoon Haishen heads toward Korea after battering Japan
By Sangmi Cha and Sakura Murakami SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - South Korea hunkered down for the arrival of Typhoon Haishen on Monday, after the powerful storm battered Japan's southern islands but appeare...
Sep 06, 2020
SoftBank shares down 3% after media reports of tech firm bets
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp shares fell 3% in early trading on Monday following media reports that the conglomerate made big bets on equity derivatives tied to listed tech companies. (Report...
Sep 06, 2020
Australia’s secures access to AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine within months
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Monday said it will receive the first batches of a potential COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021, as the country's virus hotspot said the number of new da...
Sep 06, 2020
Top U.S. Senate Democrat seeks probe into postmaster general’s campaign finance practices
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called on Sunday for the North Carolina attorney general to probe allegations published in the Washington Post that U.S Postm...
Sep 06, 2020
Australia turns to idled factories to pull it out of COVID slump
SYDNEY (Reuters) - In 2017, the last car Australia built rolled out of a General Motors' plant in the city of Adelaide, ending seven decades of local automotive history and the belief that the country...
Sep 06, 2020
Death knell sounds for some of Japan’s oldest department stores
TOKYO (Reuters) - After more than three centuries in business, the Onuma department store in northern Japanese city of Yamagata began bankruptcy proceedings this year - one of many distinguished depar...
Sep 06, 2020
Australia’s CSL agrees to manufacture two COVID-19 vaccine candidates
(Reuters) - Pharmaceutical company CSL Ltd said on Monday it had agreed to manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University if trials prove successful, with doses fo...
Sep 06, 2020
Djokovic ‘sad and empty’ after U.S. Open disqualification
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic said he was "sad and empty" after a being disqualified from the U.S. Open on Sunday after hitting a line judge in the throat with a ball during his f...
Sep 06, 2020
