(Reuters) – Auto industry consultants J.D. Power and LMC Automotive on Wednesday further cut their global light vehicle sales forecast for 2022, as lockdowns in China and the ongoing war…
BEIJING -China’s commercial hub of Shanghai reported on Friday a broad decline in its economy last month when a city-wide COVID lockdown shut factories and kept residents at home, sparking…
(Reuters) – Swedish electric-vehicle maker Polestar cut its 2022 delivery forecast by 15,000 units to 50,000 vehicles on Thursday, hit by COVID-19 lockdowns in China. “The reduction for 2022 is…
By Winni Zhou and Tom Westbrook SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE – Shanghai’s COVID-19 lockdown is wreaking havoc on companies’ dividend-payment paperwork and bankers say it is delaying summertime dollar buying as some firms…
PRESS RELEASE Trenton – Legislation sponsored by Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Ruiz and Senator Andrew Zwicker, which would require the Department of Education to quantify the impact remote instruction…
SHANGHAI – Shanghai is tightening its already strict COVID-19 lockdown in a fresh push to eliminate infections outside quarantined areas of China’s biggest city by late this month, people familiar…
By Tom Polansek and Sybille de La Hamaide CHICAGO/PARIS – Organic and free-range chickens have been thrown into lockdown. Egg-laying hens that normally have access to the outdoors can no…
By Dominique Patton BEIJING – The protracted lockdown in Shanghai, China’s financial hub, is slowing the nation’s normally booming meat trade, with stringent COVID-19 measures causing logistics logjams across the…
SHANGHAI – Companies reopening factories in locked-down Shanghai are booking hotel rooms to house workers and turning vacant workshops into on-site isolation facilities as authorities urge them to resume work…
Panic Buying Grips China’s Capital As Residents Fear Another Shanghai-Esque Lockdown Philip Lenczycki on April 26, 2022 Panic buying and hoarding has gripped China’s capital city as fears of a…
LONDON – Prime Minister Boris Johnson has thrust Britain into a constitutional crisis by breaking the law he set for pandemic restrictions, effectively “shredding the ministerial code”, the country’s leading…
Cracks Forming In Xi’s Armor In The Wake Of China’s Disastrous Lockdown Strategy Philip Lenczycki on April 14, 2022 Despite food shortages, protests, riots and even a municipal announcement on…
BEAUMONT, Texas – A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas returned an indictment this week in Beaumont charging seven inmates at U.S. Penitentiary Beaumont, who are members…
SHANGHAI – The elderly woman slouched in a chair in Shanghai’s cool spring weather as her three companions squabbled with police and others clad in white biohazard suits, the only…
BERLIN/SHANGHAI -Volkswagen on Thursday said it would halt work at its factory in Shanghai between April 1-5, reversing an earlier plan to maintain some of its production, as the city…
SHANGHAI – Danish shipper Maersk said the Shanghai lockdown will severely hurt trucking services and increase transport costs, as China’s intensifying efforts to fight the spread of COVID-19 further rattles…
By Brenda Goh and Norihiko Shirouzu SHANGHAI – General Motors and Volkswagen Group China on Monday said that their Shanghai operations have not been affected by the city’s lockdown to…
LONDON – Police have begun to interview witnesses as part of their investigation into alleged breaches of lockdown rules at gatherings in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office and residence,…
LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s leadership credentials have been badly tarnished by controversies and missteps in recent months, leading to calls from some of his own lawmakers for…
TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has wreaked havoc on New Jersey over the past two years, but he’s not done folks. Now, the lockdown happy progressive governor…
From his basement in Delaware during the 2020 Presidential Election, then-candidate Joseph R. Biden declared that he would lock down America if it meant stopping the spread of COVID-19. He…
LOS ANGELES, CA – Let’s get one thing out of the way. Nobody should have to wear a medical-surgical mask if they are healthy, vaccinated, boosted, or recently had COVID-19.…
By Michael Holden and Elizabeth Piper LONDON -The public must be told if British Prime Minister Boris Johnson or his staff are fined for attending parties at Downing Street during…
By William James, Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper LONDON -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced renewed calls to resign on Monday after a report found that alcohol-fuelled events at his…
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted he was not warned that a garden party at his residence in May 2020 broke pandemic protocols during the country’s first lockdown, BBC News…