COVID-19 Updates
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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…
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Coronavirus racism: Go back to China, attacker said, as he punched indigenous Vancouver woman who sneezed
Dakota Holmes says she was walking her dog, Kato, through Gray’s Park on Vancouver’s Eastside at about 8.30pm on Friday evening when she sneezed.She said she had just passed a…
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Why Donald Trump’s about-turn on the US dollar is right on the money
“It’s a great time to have a strong [US] dollar,” President Donald Trump told Fox Business News last week. Yet, last August, Trump was tweeting that he was not thrilled…
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US coronavirus lawsuits pick at the scabs of China’s ‘century of humiliation’
In April, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit against China for alleged acts of irresponsibility over the Covid-19 pandemic. He charged that Chinese officials “are responsible for the…
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Medical journal The Lancet says Donald Trump’s letter to World Health Organisation is ‘factually incorrect’ in key claim
World-leading medical journal The Lancet challenged a key claim in US President Donald Trump’s four-page diatribe against the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying the US leader cited academic research that…