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Hong Kong inventor designs robots to fight Covid-19 with UV light
When Hong Kong inventor Dr Ng Tze-chuen doesn’t have a project on the boil, he feels restless. Although he is a dentist by profession, his real passion is coming up…
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Li Keqiang’s support for street vendors has hit a nerve in Beijing
For years, roadside stalls and mobile vendors were frowned upon as a blight on China’s urban landscapes.For the authorities, they represented chaos and backwardness. A source of poor hygiene, noise…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong’s care homes keep Covid-19 at bay, but ‘loneliness epidemic’ strikes elderly residents as family members keep away
Chan Sim, 92, looks forward to visits from her daughter and three sons, but these days, they meet only briefly once a week or so, at the entrance of the…
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Brazil’s Covid-19 deaths surge past UK, but WHO says hospital system coping
Brazil’s Covid-19 death toll overtook Britain’s on Friday to become the second highest in the world with 41,828 dead, but the World Health Organisation said the nation’s health system was…
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A US$6 trillion tidal wave of quantitative easing is coming, but it won’t buoy Hong Kong home prices – here’s why
Hong Kong’s homebuyers are unlikely to see a repeat of the 278 per cent surge in property prices seen over the past 12 years, because a contracting economy, rising unemployment…
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China, Australia and the US are using racism as a political football
China’s warning to its citizens to reconsider travel and pursuing university studies in Australia, due to a rise in racist attacks against Asians there, is on the face of it…
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US-China rivalry will shape post-coronavirus world order while India and the EU struggle to keep pace
As the post-pandemic global order emerges, fragmentation looms large across the geopolitical landscape. The US-China rift will widen as Beijing confronts American global influence and Asian neighbours head-on while exploiting…
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Chief nurse dropped from No 10 briefing ‘for not backing Cummings’
England’s chief nurse was dropped from a daily Downing Street briefing on the coronavirus for refusing to back Dominic Cummings, the Guardian understands. In a trial run for the 1…
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Italian scientists develop model to show how solar radiation can kill the coronavirus
Ultraviolet rays produced by the sun could help kill the coronavirus, according to a team of Italian astrophysicists, who said that the impact of Covid-19 outbreaks around the world might…
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Medical workers resort to parking-lot deals and DIY projects to get safety gear
A nursing home worker in New Jersey cut a deal for gowns in a parking lot. A clinic director in Florida awaited midnight deliveries of tens of thousands of masks.…