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Coronavirus has left Hong Kong stroke patients without access to vital rehab
The coronavirus pandemic has hindered the rehabilitation efforts of stroke survivors in Hong Kong.The city confirmed its first case of Covid-19 on January 23 and has since recorded over 1,000…
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Coronavirus in Hong Kong: how e-learning could be a test of some teachers’ integrity
Teachers ought to have absolute awareness of information literacy, holding it to be the most valuable among all our core values, taking the most responsibility for safeguarding it. There is…
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China says don’t politicise the coronavirus pandemic, so why not have Taiwan join the WHO?
By all accounts, it appears the Covid-19 coronavirus started in or near the city of Wuhan in China. As a result, the Communist Party was the first to be forced…
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Hong Kong must guard against overconfidence and parochialism – pitfalls clearly illustrated by US Covid-19 failures
More Americans have died from Covid-19 than during the entire Vietnam war, a grim milestone which coincided with Vietnam’s Liberation Day last week. For Vietnam, it is quite a different…
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State-run China Daily newspaper censors opinion article by European Union ambassadors
China has censored an opinion article in a state-run newspaper co-authored by all European Union ambassadors in Beijing, removing a mention insinuating China as the origin of the coronavirus, the…
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China, Australia decoupling labelled ‘zombie economic idea’ amid coronavirus fallout
Calls for Australian businesses to diversify away from China as their main trading partner are nothing more than a “zombie economic idea” that is being used as a political tool…
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Coronavirus: Donald Trump says he wore mask at factory but took it off after being told he didn’t need one
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he did not wear a mask during a tour on Tuesday of a Honeywell International factory in Arizona after consulting the company’s chief…
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Coronavirus: in Latin America, face masks become form of expression
Rarely used in Latin America outside hospitals before the coronavirus pandemic, face masks are now compulsory for subway riders, supermarket shoppers and even joggers in some countries – and they…
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China’s coronavirus soft-power push will fail if it cannot defend freedoms – at home and abroad
Most of Europe had fallen. Britain was barely holding its own. A great number of Americans remained committed to isolationism. This was the situation in late 1941, before Franklin D.…
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Coronavirus latest: in U-turn, Donald Trump says task force to ‘continue indefinitely’
US President Donald Trump says his administration’s coronavirus task force will continue indefinitely, a day after the White House floated the notion of winding it down.Trump, in a series of…