BERLIN (Reuters) – Production in Germany’s engineering sector rose by 3.2% in the first two months of 2023 compared with the same months last year as supply chain bottlenecks eased considerably, the VDMA engineering association said on Monday. Despite a solid start to the year, VDMA stuck to its full-year forecast for a 2% drop…
TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) -The U.S. warship USS Milius sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in what the U.S. Navy described on Monday as a “routine” transit, just days after China ended its latest war games around the island. China, which views Taiwan as its own territory, officially ended its three days of exercises around Taiwan…
By Balazs Koranyi WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Three women are seen as the top contenders to become the European Central Bank’s new supervisory chief, with Germany’s Claudia Buch considered the clear favorite, conversations with a dozen sources with direct knowledge indicate. The ECB oversees just over a hundred of the euro zone’s biggest banks and needs to…
By Cheney Orr and Julia Harte DADEVILLE, Alabama (Reuters) -At least four people were killed and 28 wounded in a shooting that erupted during a late-night “Sweet 16” birthday celebration at a dance studio in the small town of Dadeville, Alabama, state police and local news media said on Sunday. Some of the injured were…
(Reuters) – Workers from Tesla’s Shanghai factory have taken the unusual step of posting on social media to appeal to Elon Musk and the Chinese public after being told over the weekend that a performance bonus had been cut. Here are key facts about Tesla’s operation in Shanghai: BACKGROUND Tesla’s Shanghai plant, which began operations…
(Reuters) – Workers from Tesla’s Shanghai factory have taken the unusual step of posting on social media to appeal to Elon Musk and the Chinese public after being told over the weekend that a performance bonus had been cut. Here are key facts about Tesla’s operation in Shanghai: BACKGROUND Tesla’s Shanghai plant, which began operations…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – One of the most prominent democracy activists in Hong Kong over recent years, Joshua Wong, was sentenced on Monday to three months in prison over an information breach involving a police officer, according to a post on Wong’s Facebook account. The 26-year-old rose to prominence in 2014, when, as a bespectacled…
(Refiles to add full name, company details in par 16) By Stella Qiu and Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – When China ended a lengthy border closure in January, e-commerce marketer Tianni Ren immediately began planning a team building trip for her 14 staff to Australia, hoping to see its stunning pink salt lakes that had…
By Howard Schneider and Balazs Koranyi WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Major central banks may be deep into their drive to raise interest rates in hopes of killing inflation, but the endgame remains far from clear as price increases prove harder to slow than expected, and analysts caution that financial markets could still break along the way….
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand food prices surged in March as flash floods and a cyclone this year jacked up fruit and vegetable prices, with economists expecting first quarter inflation data due later this week to keep the central bank on its policy tightening path. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ)…
