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Singapore’s shopping hub Orchard Road buckles under coronavirus as economic pain grows
A walk down Orchard Road shows just how badly the coronavirus pandemic has hit Singapore’s famed shopping strip.Gone are popular restaurants like Modesto’s, which shut last month after 23 years.…
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Coronavirus cases worldwide pass 18 million as hard-hit US enters ‘new phase’
Global coronavirus cases topped 18 million on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University, with the pandemic adding a million reported infections about every four days.Fresh clusters have been reported in…
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Coronavirus latest: non-essential Melbourne businesses shut; Vietnam races to avoid major outbreak
Australia’s Victoria state will shut down large parts of its retail and manufacturing sectors for six weeks in the city of Melbourne as it tries to crush a spike in…
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Hong Kong property deals expected to fall 10 per cent in August, with second-hand home sales plunging by a fifth, as Covid-19 risk rattles buyers, sellers
Property transactions in Hong Kong may drop by about a 10th in August, with second-hand home sales leading the way with a 20 per cent plunge, as a third wave…
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Without jobs, some in Hong Kong tighten belts and deplete savings as they face an uncertain future
This is the first instalment of a five-part series in which the Post takes a look at unemployment in Hong KongThe Covid-19 pandemic, coming on the heels of anti-government protests…
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Hong Kong-listed old economy stocks are coronavirus roadkill. Will they come back to life?
As the coronavirus drags into its seventh month, old economy stocks face a high-stakes reckoning: do their battered share prices signal they are roadkill, unlikely to ever fully revive? Or,…
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Coronavirus live news: Melbourne under curfew; worldwide cases near 18m
France will push for financial sanctions under the EU’s 750 billion euro ($880bn) coronavirus recovery fund against states that undermine fundamental human rights, its junior European affairs minister told the…
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Deborah Birx warns Covid-19 now ‘extraordinarily widespread’ in US – live
Donald Trump is back at the White House after another Sunday morning at Trump National in Potomac Falls, marking the 13th day he’s spent at one of his golf courses…
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Ben Jennings on Boris Johnson ending Covid-19 shielding — cartoon
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Covid-19: London lockdown and over-50s shielding ‘just speculation’
Boris Johnson and the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, met to run through possible options for averting another nationwide lockdown that could stall any potential economic recovery should there be a second…