By Takahiko Wada and Hideyuki Sano TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Financial Services Agency said on Friday it has approved 11 companies as operators of cryptocurrency exchanges, in a move that sets the country apart from its neighbors which are tightening their grip on virtual money. The Japanese government recognized bitcoin as legal tender in April […]
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By Andrew Both JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (Reuters) – Louis Oosthuizen and Branden Grace provided a bright spot for the International team on Thursday when they continued their brilliant partnership to post another victory against the United States. After winning four matches in the previous event in South Korea, the South African duo beat American […]
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By Nithin ThomasPrasad (Reuters) – Gold fell on Friday, inching towards the previous session’s six-week low as the dollar strengthened, with prices set for their biggest monthly fall this year. Spot gold declined 0.2 percent to $1,284.28 per ounce at 0434 GMT, on track to register a 2.8 percent decline in September, the largest monthly […]
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Former Western Force coach Dave Wessels has joined the Melbourne Rebels less than a month after the Perth-based side was cut from Super Rugby. The Force were officially dumped from Super Rugby on Sept. 5 following a protracted battle with the Australian Rugby Union after SANZAAR members agreed to ditch three teams […]
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By Emma Farge DAKAR (Reuters) – A dormant Senegalese rebel movement has called for the abandonment of a planned mineral sands project operated by Australia-listed Astron, saying it amounts to “a declaration of war”. A spokesman for the Movement of Democratic Forces for Casamance (MFDC) on Thursday said that it had not been consulted about […]
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POTCHEFSTROOM (Reuters) – Debutant Aiden Markram suffered a horror run out just three runs shy of a century as South Africa amassed 298 for one on the first day of the first test against Bangladesh on Thursday. Dean Elgar scored his ninth test century and was 128 not out at the close with Hashim Amla […]
Read More PORT LOUIS (Reuters) – Mauritius on Thursday began building an 18.8 billion rupees ($560 million) light rail system which is expected to help cut traffic jams and the cost of doing business on the Indian Ocean island. The 26-km (16-mile) route will connect Curepipe, a town in central Mauritius, to the capital Port Louis. It […]
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By Nyimas Laula KARANGASEM, Indonesia (Reuters) – Nearly 135,000 people on the Indonesian island of Bali have left their homes and taken shelter in makeshift evacuation centers after warnings the Mount Agung volcano could erupt at any time, officials said late on Thursday. Spewing white smoke and sending tremors through the area, Mount Agung’s alert […]
Read More SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Authorities in China’s northern province of Hebei found privately owned steelmaker Hebei Jingye Group lacked environmental protection facilities and had tampered with instruments monitoring discharges, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported on Friday. It quoted a senior environmental official threatening to prosecute the firm’s executives if they do not bring the steelmaker […]
Read More By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – A new typhoid vaccine developed by privately-held Bharat Biotech proved safe and highly immunogenic in a study and could be used to prevent millions of infections if it succeeds in final-stage clinical trials, researchers said on Friday. Typhoid fever affects between 12 and 20 million people worldwide in regions […]
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By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization told governments on Thursday not to get involved in a foundation funded by tobacco firm Philip Morris International to look at ways of reducing the harm from smoking. The U.N. health body said there was a conflict of interest in a tobacco firm funding such […]
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia welcomed a pair of giant pandas on loan from China on Thursday, a move officials said would boost friendship and cultural cooperation between the two countries. The pandas, Cai Tao and Hu Chun from Sichuan province, will spend the next 10 years in a special enclosure in the Taman Safari zoo […]
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