Japan to look at building a common infrastructure for digital payments
Japan’s three biggest banks have set up a study group that will look at possibly building a common settlement infrastructure for digital payments, an initiative...
Myanmar court denies bail to Canadian preacher who defied virus ban
A Myanmar court on Wednesday denied bail to a Canadian Christian preacher who held church services in defiance of a ban on gatherings to prevent...
Sporadic violence flares in latest U.S. protests over Floyd death
Tens of thousands of people defied curfews to take to the streets of U.S. cities on Tuesday for an eighth night of protests over the...
South Korea says kids with suspected COVID-19 syndrome had another disease
Two children suspected to be South Korea’s first cases of a life-threatening syndrome linked with the coronavirus were found to have contracted Kawasaki disease, a...
Column: Spend or hoard? Fate of forced savings could define pandemic recovery – Mike Dolan
(The author is editor-at-large for finance and markets at Reuters News. Any views expressed here are his own)...
Renault finalises 5 billion euro state-backed loan
Renault finalised on Wednesday a 5 billion euro ($5.60 billion) loan from with the French government, strengthening the carmaker’s finances in the wake of the...
Lufthansa vows company revamp as losses balloon
Lufthansa vowed to step up up restructuring measures after posting a first-quarter net loss of 2.1 billion euros ($2.35 billion), days after agreeing a state...
British PM Johnson is in charge of coronavirus response, junior minister says
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in charge of the government’s coronavirus response and always has been, a junior minister said on Wednesday after a...
Tropical storm Cristobal strengthens as it moves towards Mexico: NHC
Tropical storm Cristobal strengthened a little as it moved slowly south-eastward toward the coast of Mexico early on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC)...
Virgin Australia bidders get 10-day extension for final offers, source says
Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd’s administrator has given final bidders Bain Capital and Cyrus Capital Partners until June 22 to lodge binding offers, an extension of...