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Coronavirus cases and deaths over time: how countries compare around the world
As the Covid-19 coronavirus continues to spread around the globe it has affected different countries in different ways. The severity of outbreaks depends on many country-specific factors, such as how…
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In a post-pandemic economy, Asian businesses will think smaller and safer, with worrying implications for many workers
If you’re an office worker using Zoom while working from home, you’re part of a speeded-up Covid-19-induced technological revolution.Buyers of electrical grid transformers are conducting quality testing remotely via cameras…
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With all this talk of ‘travel bubbles’, where – and when – can Hongkongers go on holiday?
In 2017, online travel platform Kayak.com declared that Hong Kong was “a nation of travel addicts”, a conclusion reached after surveying citizens’ travel planning habits. While perhaps not the most…
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‘No point in lipstick’: Japan’s cosmetics sales drop as face masks become obligatory
In recent months, face masks have been hard to find in Japanese stores, but there’s one product that is not selling well: lipstick. As face mask usage became obligatory, and…
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Australia-New Zealand travel bubble with Fiji and Pacific islands ‘can counter China’
Calls are mounting for Australia and New Zealand to allow their Pacific neighbours into the “Trans Tasman bubble” they are setting up to kick-start economic activity, with proponents saying it…
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Hong Kong DSE history exam: Japanese invasion of China is no subject for a cost-benefit analysis
Not long ago, many people were astonished at how a Hong Kong primary schoolteacher falsely told students that the British waged war with China in the 1840s to “ban opium…
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Why Tsai Ing-wen’s success in containing Taiwan’s coronavirus outbreak could trigger a backlash from Beijing
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen will be sworn in today for a second term in office at an inauguration ceremony that has been streamlined due to the coronavirus pandemic that is…
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California, seen as a leader in US coronavirus response, faces new guidelines, budget cuts and scrutiny
California, the most populous US state, has been lauded for its handling of the coronavirus. Widespread moves – among the earliest in the country – to lock down the economy…
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Arise, Sir Tom: UK awards knighthood to war veteran ‘Captain Tom’ for raising millions for British National Health Service
The British government on Tuesday announced a knighthood for World War II veteran Tom Moore, who became a national hero by raising huge sums for health care charities during the…
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Coronavirus: how severe lung infections knock out a key immune defence
A better understanding of one of the immune system’s front lines of defence might help improve prospects for coronavirus patients, according to the authors of a new study.Researchers from the…