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China gears up to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink this year
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military-industrial complex is set to start building its first constellation of very low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites later this year, the latest Chinese bid to catch up wi...
Mar 02, 2023
Hong Kong retail sales rise in Jan, inbound tourism to add to cheer
(Reuters) - Hong Kong's retail sales rose in January for the second consecutive month as consumer sentiment improved, with further relaxation of pandemic-related rules expected to provide an additiona...
Mar 02, 2023
Netherlands changes inflation methodology to better reflect energy prices
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands will change the way it measures energy prices paid by consumers in order to improve estimates of inflation in the euro zone's fifth-largest economy, its statistic...
Mar 02, 2023
UK businesses plan smallest price rises in a year: BoE survey
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - British businesses scaled back plans for price rises in February but overall intentions for price and wage increases remain high, according to a Bank of England su...
Mar 02, 2023
UK online job adverts fall by 2% in late Feb – ONS
LONDON (Reuters) - Online job adverts in Britain fell by 2% in the week to Feb. 24 compared with the previous week, adding to a series of falls, the Office for National Statistics said on Thursday. Th...
Mar 02, 2023
US unit of Spain’s ACS to build EV battery plant for Panasonic in Kansas
MADRID (Reuters) - A joint venture between the U.S. unit of Spanish engineering group ACS and Philadelphia-based Yates Construction has won a contract to build an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant i...
Mar 02, 2023
EU’s Vestager says scrutiny of competition in metaverse already needed
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The metaverse, shared virtual worlds accessible via the Internet, is the next digital market to attract regulatory scrutiny, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager ...
Mar 02, 2023
Italy Jan jobless rate edges up to 7.9%, with 35,000 jobs created
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's unemployment rate rose slightly to 7.9% in January from an unrevised 7.8% the month before, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Thursday. A Reuters survey of analysts had...
Mar 02, 2023
Burkina’s film festival in full swing despite fighting on its doorstep
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - In Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, soldiers give directions to movie-goers and journalists attending the continent's premier film festival that is going ahead this year de...
Mar 02, 2023
Britain’s Nationwide curbs cryptocurrency purchases by customers
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Nationwide Building Society has restricted customers' ability to buy cryptocurrencies, the lender said in an email to its members today. Nationwide said it will not allow ...
Mar 02, 2023
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