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China will lower payment fees for small firms from Sept 30 – PBOC
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank said on Friday that it would lower payment fees for small firms from September 30, including for bank account services, yuan settlement and electronic banking....
Jun 25, 2021
Rio kept destruction of Ice Age Australia heritage secret, Aboriginal group says
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A Rio Tinto Ltd forerunner failed to protect 18,000-year-old artefacts showing how people lived during the last Ice Age, part of destruction that the mining giant kept secret for...
Jun 25, 2021
Bank of England takes action against Euroclear for settlement outage
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England said on Friday it had commenced supervisory action against Euroclear UK and Ireland over an outage last September of its CREST financial markets settlement syste...
Jun 25, 2021
BNL may spin off some assets to create JVs – paper
MILAN (Reuters) - Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL), the Italian unit of France's BNP Paribas, was considering spinning off some assets as it seeks to create partnerships with other operators, Italian ...
Jun 25, 2021
Iran dismisses Canada report on downing of airline as ‘highly politicised’
(Reuters) - Iran criticised as "highly politicised" on Friday a report by a special Canadian forensic team that accused the country of incompetence and recklessness over the downing of a Ukrainian pas...
Jun 25, 2021
Taiwan steps up border curbs to keep out Delta variant
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will tighten border controls to keep out the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, authorities said on Friday, requiring arrivals from five countries, including...
Jun 25, 2021
Paralmypics-Swimming champ Tai withdraws from Tokyo Games due to injury
(Reuters) - Paralympic swimmer Alice Tai, who was part of Britain's gold medal-winning women's 4x100m medley team in 2016, has pulled out of the Tokyo Games due to an elbow injury. "Competing at Tokyo...
Jun 25, 2021
Didi’s $4 billion U.S. IPO fully covered – sources
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Didi Global Inc's initial public offering (IPO) to raise up to $4 billion in the United States has been covered on the first day of its bookbuild, according to four sources with ...
Jun 25, 2021
‘Sadness and torment’: Apple Daily interns reflect on final days at HK paper
By Sharon Abratique HONG KONG (Reuters) - For a group of interns, Hong Kong's pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily proved to be a work experience they will never forget. When the interns were less than...
Jun 25, 2021
Belarus moves jailed opposition blogger Protasevich to house arrest -BBC
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarus has moved opposition blogger Roman Protasevich, who was arrested in May after the grounding of a Ryanair plane in Minsk, from a detention facility to house arrest, the BBC R...
Jun 25, 2021
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