Published by Reuters UK By Tim Hepher and David Shepardson (Reuters) -Major international airlines rushed to rejig or cancel flights to the United States ahead of a 5G wireless rollout on Wednesday that has triggered safety concerns, despite two wireless carriers saying they will delay parts of the deployment. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has
Published by The Bangkok Post BEIJING: China’s postal service has ordered workers to disinfect international deliveries and urged the public to reduce orders from overseas after authorities claimed mail could be the source of recent coronavirus outbreaks. China, where the virus first emerged in late 2019, has stuck to a strict policy of targeting zero
Published by Reuters By Scott Murdoch MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Asia’s share markets turned negative on Tuesday as two-year U.S. Treasury yields topped 1% for the first time in almost two years with investors weighing the risks of a Fed policy rate rise as soon as March. Early European markets on Tuesday were also slightly weaker.
Published by Reuters By Akriti Sharma and Ross Kerber (Reuters) -Larry Fink, chief executive of the world’s biggest asset manager BlackRock Inc, has defended a shareholder movement that pushes companies to focus on the interests of society as well as profits. In his annual open letter, Fink built on themes he has sounded in previous
Published by Reuters By Mark John (Reuters) – Public trust in governments running the world’s democracies has fallen to new lows over their handling of the pandemic and amid a widespread sense of economic pessimism, a global survey has found. The Edelman Trust Barometer, which for two decades has polled thousands of people on trust
Published by Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) – Tickets for the Winter Olympics set to begin on Feb. 4 will be distributed to “targeted” groups of people and will not be sold to the general public, the organising committee said on Monday, in the latest setback to the Games inflicted by COVID-19. Organisers had said in September
Published by Reuters UK By Sameer Manekar (Reuters) – Rio Tinto forecast slightly weaker-than-expected 2022 iron ore shipments on Tuesday, citing tight labour market conditions and production delays from the new greenfields mine at Gudai-Darri project. The world’s biggest iron ore producer said it expects to ship between 320 million and 335 million tonnes (Mt)
Published by Radar Online Fox News star Lara Logan has reportedly been dropped by her talent agency after comparing Dr. Anthony Fauci to Josef Mengele. Mediaite broke the news that the controversial TV personality was axed by her talent agency, UTA, due to her conspiracy theorist banter in which she compared the director of the
Published by Reuters UK By Giulio Piovaccari MILAN (Reuters) – If playing catch up with Tesla is what everyone in the auto industry is about then Stellantis, the company formed from the merger of Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot, has had a good start – its shares have far outpaced its U.S. rival in its inaugural
Published by The Bangkok Post Like all viruses, SARS-CoV-2 adapts for survival. First identified in South Africa in November, the new variant of concern, Omicron, has now swept across the world. It carries a large number of mutations, including those on the spike protein, which are thought to increase transmissibility. However, studies have found that