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For Asians in Australia, a collective memory of racial trauma
Charmaine Celine, a Eurasian-Chinese student attending La Trobe University in Melbourne’s Bundoora, said she had been grappling with feelings of inferiority and embarrassment over her race amid the coronavirus pandemic.As…
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Coronavirus: Hundreds of sailors stranded in paradise in South Pacific as restrictions hit
For as long as she can remember, 28-year-old American Kristen Pankratz has shared in her dad’s dream to sail around the world. Life somehow always got in the way. But…
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Asian-Americans, harassed over coronavirus, push back on streets and social media
A spike in harassment of Asian-Americans since the coronavirus pandemic began has led community activists in the United States to fight back – forming street patrols, rallying on social media,…
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‘You Chinese virus spreader’: after coronavirus, Australia has an anti-Asian racism outbreak to deal with
After a knife-wielding white woman spewing racial abuse attacked them in their own hometown at the end of March, it took weeks for the Vietnamese-Australian sisters Rosa and Sophie Do…
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Coronavirus opens door to deeper collaboration in China-Africa healthtech
Covid-19 has brought out the good, the bad, and the ugly in the China-Africa relationship, including rampant racism in Guangzhou against Africans falsely accused of being infected and subsequent diplomatic…
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Coronavirus: first post-lockdown flight departs Europe for China
A first charter flight carrying Europeans to China following weeks of lockdown departed Germany’s biggest hub Frankfurt late Friday, carrying around 200 workers and their families.On arrival, “we expect we’ll…
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Keep politics out of coronavirus investigation
Not only has there been no evidence to support claims Covid-19 is caused by a new man-made coronavirus that leaked from a government laboratory in Wuhan, but also studies have…
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The next pandemic might come from a factory farm in China or the US. Is the world prepared?
It should come as no surprise that a burger-lover like President Donald Trump has declared the United States’ crisis-hit meat industry as “critical infrastructure”. More than 10,000 workers at 170…
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Coronavirus latest: doubts cast over drug trials; Singapore-China corridor to reopen
Serious concerns have been raised by dozens of scientists into a major study of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, and their potential use in treating Covid-19.One of the main concerns was a…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong karaoke venues reopen, but they’re not on song yet
After being deprived of the chance to sing at a karaoke lounge for two months, Yuki Tsang was quick to book a room at a venue in downtown Hong Kong…