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Singapore airport adds camping, holiday dining deals as it reinvents itself amid coronavirus
Singapore’s Changi Airport, routinely voted the world’s best and a key part of the city state’s psyche, is reinventing itself for the Covid-19 era and beyond.In a bid to keep…
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Singapore posts worst recession ever for 2020 but a rebound is in sight
Singapore’s economy contracted less sharply in the fourth quarter of 2020, as business activity continued to pick up and Covid-19 curbs were loosened amid declining infections in the community. The…
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What Carrie Lam can do for fed-up Hongkongers: control the pandemic and revive the economy
What is 2021 going to be like for Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and her administration? I’m taking a wild guess here, but I’d say it’s going to be…
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Analysis: is it wise for England to mix and match Covid vaccines?
US experts warn against plan to give different second jab if supplies run low Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The UK is setting the pace around…
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Japan’s government to ask experts whether to declare another coronavirus state of emergency
The government will hear opinions from health experts soon on whether to declare a state of emergency in Tokyo and neighbouring prefectures hit by surging coronavirus cases, taking heed of…
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Coronavirus: US surgeon general defends official numbers after Trump says CDC ‘exaggerates’ cases
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by David Cohen on politico.com on January 3, 2021.US Surgeon General Jerome Adams declined to condemn…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong salon operators, bars plead for shutdown to end, warning workers’ livelihoods have been ruined
Operators of beauty salons and bars in Hong Kong have called on the government to urgently lift social-distancing restrictions, and warned that the livelihoods of thousands of workers have already…
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About 40 per cent of Hong Kong’s young people averse to getting coronavirus vaccine shots: survey
Many of Hong Kong’s young people are worried about contracting the coronavirus but two in five say they will not get the Covid-19 vaccine, a survey has found.Almost 90 per…
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Japan seeking signs of optimism amid dire news for the economy and Olympics preparation
The year 2020 was not a good one for the Japanese economy. It was battered by the Covid-19 pandemic, as were many other economies in the region. While Japan’s economy…
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Chinese man jailed for more than six years over medical equipment scam at height of coronavirus pandemic
A Chinese man has been jailed for more than six years over a medical equipment scam in the early days of the Covid-19 outbreak.The man from Jingzhou in Hubei province…