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Coronavirus lessons: Singapore loses if it separates ‘community’ from migrant workers
Last month, Singapore’s sudden surge in Covid-19 cases made headlines around the world. Such an uptick in a country so well known for its social order has been met with…
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Coronavirus: Venezuelans struggle to educate kids amid pandemic lockdown
María Figueroa often climbs onto the rooftop of her building in Venezuela’s capital clutching a phone and laptop looking for a signal and has paid to run an internet cable…
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Coronavirus crisis: world must unite to put lives first, as in Chilean mine and Thai cave rescues
In August 2010, a cave-in within the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men 700 metres underground. Seventeen days after the accident, a note was found taped to a…
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Why is China resisting an independent inquiry into how the pandemic started?
Beijing is under growing pressure from the United States, Australia and European powers to allow an international inquiry in China into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.Analysts say Beijing has…
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Truckers’ noisy protest expressed frustration with Trump – not support
As Donald Trump spoke to the press in his Rose Garden on Friday, a low hum could be heard from outside the White House grounds. The president said the sound…
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Migrant workers face cruel summer as Covid-19 batters European tourism
Argentine bartender Manuela Perez Simon hoped to escape her homeland’s economic troubles when she arrived in Barcelona’s touristy El Born district two years ago looking for work.But like many of…
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Donald Trump’s tariffs are costing Americans billions when they can least afford it, but he’s not backing down
Just seven weeks ago, a group calling itself the Coalition for a Prosperous America wrote passionately to Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of the US Customs and Border Protection, demanding that…
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Coronavirus: US vaccine tsar expresses optimism for ‘a few hundred million doses’ by end of the year
The former pharmaceutical executive chosen this week by US President Donald Trump to speed up the development of a coronavirus vaccine said on Friday that he expected to accomplish the…
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Protecting jobs must be the main priority amid coronavirus pandemic
On Tuesday, a group of mainland and locally funded enterprises made a joint undertaking not to lay off employees despite economic hardship. Separately, the wage subsidies scheme set up by…
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Covid-19 pandemic shows why people and the environment should be at the heart of business
One of the central lessons of the current crisis is that working humans are far more than “resources”: the people keeping life going through the Covid-19 pandemic prove daily that…