ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s banking sector needs more mergers and takeovers to create at least three major players, according to the chief executive of Intesa Sanpaolo, the country’s biggest lender.FILE PHOTO: Carlo Messina, CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo Bank looks on during a shareholders meeting in Turin, Italy April 27, 2017. REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino/FCarlo Messina said in […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – Everyone in North Korea is heartbroken over leader Kim Jong Un’s apparent weight loss, said an unidentified resident of Pyongyang quoted on the country’s tightly controlled state media, after watching recent video footage of Kim. The rare public comment on Kim’s health come after foreign analysts noted in early June that the […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – Japan and the United States are making arrangements for First Lady Jill Biden to visit Japan for the Tokyo Olympics, but President Joe Biden is not likely to accompany her, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily said on Sunday (June 27). Attending the opening ceremony, set for July 23, and holding a meeting with […]
KUALA LUMPUR – A government agency involved in Covid-19 innovations has courted controversy for allegedly hiring a cosmetic surgeon, who was struck off the medical registers in both Malaysia and Australia, as its adviser. The Malaysian Automotive, Robotics and IoT Institute (MARii) appointed Dr Faizal Anwar as its medical and health data advisor and in […]
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – New Zealand will extend a Covid-19 alert level in the capital Wellington for two days, as the authorities on Sunday (June 27) said there is still a risk from an Australian tourist who tested positive for the coronavirus after visiting the city last weekend. Wellington, which moved to alert level two last Wednesday, will now […]
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – New Zealand will extend a Covid-19 alert level in the capital Wellington for two days, as the authorities on Sunday (June 27) said there is still a risk from an Australian tourist who tested positive for the coronavirus after visiting the city last weekend. Wellington, which moved to alert level two last Wednesday, will now […]
SINGAPORE – Dawn had not yet broken at 6am on Sunday (June 27) but people were already out on the mudflats of Changi Beach, exploring the area at low tide. As they peered into tiny holes in the seabed and sought marine creatures among the blades of seagrass, volunteers and staff from the National Parks […]
SINGAPORE – Gaiyathiri Murugayan was so preoccupied with cleanliness that she made her then husband drive her to a clean toilet from her workplace on a daily basis. At home, she ordered her sister-in-law to wear a shower cap in the flat after noticing some strands of her hair on the floor. She also made […]
ALLAHABAD (AFP) – Seasonal flooding of the Ganges is flushing out shallow graves and exposing some of the hundreds of bodies that were buried by the river during India’s recent Covid-19 surge. Mr Neeraj Kumar Singh, an official in the northern city of Allahabad, said that almost 150 bodies have had to be cremated in […]
WELLINGTON (AFP) – New Zealand announced a three-day suspension of its quarantine-free travel arrangement with Australia on Saturday (June 26), with Wellington citing “multiple” outbreaks of Covid-19 in the neighbouring country. The announcement comes as a two-week lockdown begins in Sydney to contain a rapidly spreading outbreak of the Delta coronavirus variant. More than 80 cases […]