Portugal's pulp and paper producer Navigator reported on Friday a 23% fall in its first quarter net profit to 23.5 million euros, as demand dropped due to intense coronavirus lockdowns in the main destination countries for its exports.
Portugal's pulp and paper producer Navigator reported on Friday a 23% fall in its first quarter net profit to 23.5 million euros, as demand dropped due to intense coronavirus lockdowns in the main destination countries for its exports.
Japanese shares jumped on Friday, as investors scooped up stocks after sell-offs due to MSCI's reshuffle in the previous session, while progress in the country's vaccination drive lifted risk appetite on prospects of a swift economic recovery.
By Kim Harrisberg, Thomson Reuters Foundation
6 Min Read Lockdown initiative aims to fight hunger in inner city Customers urged to reuse containers and reduce waste
JOHANNESBURG, May 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Sidney Beukes got his bus driver’s licence, he never imagined himself behind the wheel of a 40-year-old school bus that has been turned into a mobile grocery store serving low-income residents of Johannesburg.
The bus is not an easy drive: there is no power steering and it chugs along. But Beukes said every time a customer climbs aboard to buy groceries they could not afford in the shops, he is reminded of why he would not want to drive anything else.