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Charity for cancer patients in Hong Kong faces hard times, founder Sally Lo says, as protests and coronavirus threaten its sustainability
Surprise surprise: I was born in 1945, at the end of the war, in London. My mother was surprised to be told that she was having twins. My twin sister,…
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China’s manufacturing recovery stuttered in May, but PMI positive for third month in a row
China’s factory activity fell back slightly in May, showing that while the recovery from coronavirus lockdown is continuing, challenges remain, according to new data released on Sunday.The National Bureau of…
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Trump delays G7 summit, invites other countries to discuss China
US President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will postpone until the fall a meeting of Group of 7 nations he had planned to hold next month at the White…
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‘Never seen that before’: Some Hong Kong residents hit the panic button as security law revives rush for the emigration gates
Hong Kong’s residents, who emigrated en masse before the city’s return to China’s sovereignty in 1997, are hitting the inquiry lines again, amid concerns that the Chinese government’s planned national…
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Coronavirus: Singapore’s domestic workers had more work, less contact with loved ones during ‘circuit breaker’
Singapore is set to start reopening its economy from Tuesday as it eases the partial lockdown measures imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic. But for the city state’s foreign domestic…
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Fears that protests in major US cities may fuel new wave of coronavirus outbreaks
The massive protests sweeping across US cities following the police killing of a black man in Minnesota have sent shudders through the health community and elevated fears that the huge…
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China is a superpower: naive to think it does not ‘forum shop’ on international law
Professor Atul Alexander’s “Covid-19 lawsuits may put China off international law for good” (May 20) appears to be self-contradictory. On the one hand, he argues that China’s apprehensions about international…
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Think you know someone? Watch how they behave in a pandemic, then you’ll really know them
They are your friends, you thought you knew them well, but now it turns out they’re criminals. I’m not talking about delinquents or crooks, but quarantine breakers. These are respectable…
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Trump says White House protesters would have faced ‘vicious dogs’ if fence was breached
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said demonstrators protesting the death of a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck would have been “greeted…
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Coronavirus latest: global cases top 6 million; Brazil passes France in deaths; backlash against Trump exiting WHO
Global coronavirus cases have surpassed 6 million, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally, as Latin America reported a grim milestone of 50,000 deaths from the disease.Countries such as Brazil,…