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Coronavirus threatens to disrupt South Korea-US military exercises
South Korea and the United States are trying to agree on the scale, scope and timing of annual military exercises with the novel coronavirus threatening to disrupt the travel of…
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Southeast Asia’s budget airline boom turns sour amid coronavirus pandemic
Southeast Asian low-cost carriers, a key growth engine for planemakers and leasing companies for a decade before the pandemic, are faltering financially as demand plunges, raising questions over whether they…
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Coronavirus latest: Philippines ramps up testing; Australia battles Victoria outbreak
The Philippines said on Tuesday it would ramp up testing for the novel coronavirus amid a sharp rise in infections and deaths since a lockdown was eased in June, while…
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How poverty is making air pollution worse in Chile’s Temuco
Nestled in a valley in central Chile, near lakes and snowcapped mountains, sits one of the world’s most polluted cities.Every winter, sleepy Temuco plunges to the bottom of global air…
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Hong Kong third wave: two more Covid-19 deaths, at least 70 new confirmed infections, source says, as Hospital Authority warns of ‘critical’ isolation ward situation
Hong Kong recorded another two Covid-19 fatalities and at least 70 more confirmed infections on Tuesday, according to a medical source, as the Hospital Authority warned the city might run…
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Singapore’s Temasek reports 2.3 per cent drop in portfolio value amid pandemic
Singapore’s Temasek Holdings has reported a preliminary one-year total shareholder return of minus 2.3 per cent for the financial year ended March 31, its worst performance since 2016.The Singapore state…
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Singapore property tycoon Kishin RK to open 1,000 cloud kitchens across Asia, Europe, US
Of all the ways our lives have changed during the coronavirus pandemic, few are as obvious as how, and where, we eat.With restaurants either closed or reopening with vastly reduced…
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Hong Kong third wave: embattled restaurant sector faces HK$3 billion in July losses amid fresh Covid-19 restrictions
Hong Kong restaurants could lose as much as HK$3 billion (US$387 million) in revenue for July alone as unprecedented social-distancing arrangements made necessary by a third wave of Covid-19 cases…
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Stolen corpses, rejected masks: Indonesia’s coronavirus calamity worsens
Body stealing, island hopping and smiling are some of the latest challenges facing Indonesia as the virus spreads along the world’s largest archipelago, turning the Southeast Asian nation into the…
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Hong Kong third wave: how did city’s scariest surge in Covid-19 cases start, and what did authorities miss?
Groups that were overlooked could be behind Hong Kong’s recent surge in coronavirus cases, experts have said, with the Post finding that three in 10 imported Covid-19 infections came from…