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Thai hospitality and travel shares soar on reopening plans
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Shares in Thailand's hotels and airlines jumped in Tuesday morning's trading, lifted by an announcement by its prime minister that more vaccinated tourists would be allowed to visi...
Oct 12, 2021
India’s Everest Organics starts making ingredient for Merck’s COVID-19 pill
BENGALURU (Reuters) -India's Everest Organics Ltd said on Tuesday it had started making the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) for a generic version of Merck & Co's experimental antiviral drug mol...
Oct 12, 2021
EV battery maker CATL plans $5-billion China recycling facility
BEIJING (Reuters) - Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd plans to build a battery material recycling facility in the central Chinese province of Hubei with an investment of up to 32 billion yuan ($4...
Oct 12, 2021
China vehicle sales fall 20% in September – industry body
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's auto sales slumped 19.6% in September from a year earlier, industry data showed on Tuesday, falling for a fifth consecutive month as a prolonged global shortage of semicondu...
Oct 12, 2021
China’s export growth likely eased in Sept on electricity curbs: Reuters poll
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's export growth likely slowed in September as electricity rationing hit production at home, while a shift in consumption towards services as developed economies reopened like...
Oct 12, 2021
Norway’s outgoing government proposes wealth fund spending cut
By Terje Solsvik OSLO (Reuters) - Norway should sharply cut spending from its $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund in 2022 as the economy rebounds from the pandemic, the outgoing centre-right minority ...
Oct 12, 2021
UK jobs hit record high ahead of September furlough expiry
LONDON (Reuters) -British employers added 207,000 staff in September, taking their payrolls to a record high shortly before the end of the government's wage subsidies programme, figures showed on Tues...
Oct 12, 2021
South Korea to donate 1.1 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam, 470,000 doses to Thailand
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will donate 1.1 mln doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam and 470,000 doses to Thailand, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said on Tuesd...
Oct 12, 2021
Japan confronts rising inequality after Abenomics
By Kantaro Komiya and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's stock market has surged and luxury cars are selling fast in Tokyo after eight years of economic stimulus under Abenomics, but that new weal...
Oct 12, 2021
Global carbon capture projects surge 50% in 9 months – research
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Global plans to build carbon capture and storage (CCS) plants have mushroomed over the last nine months as governments and companies accelerate the hunt for ways t...
Oct 12, 2021
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