- newChina’s health care, infrastructure stocks lure global bargain hunters even as coronavirus pandemic roiled equity markets in March
Global fund managers are putting more money on Chinese health care and infrastructure-related stocks, even as they retreated from the onshore market at the fastest rate on record amid the worsening co…
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- newNew Chinese research may point to possible role of children in coronavirus spread
Children tend to get less severe symptoms when they contract Covid-19 and cases can be harder to detect than in adults, new research in China has found, as health experts, parents and officials weigh…
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- newCoronavirus: for Malaysia’s new leader Muhyiddin, a deadly litmus test
Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s first month on the job has been a tortuous one: a health epidemic, economic woes and a powerful opposition force threatening a no-confidence motion in par…
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- newCoronavirus: Hongkongers do their bit to put smiles on faces of the needy amid pandemic
Twice a week, Li Shuk-ying goes into the streets of Jordan to hand out masks and rice to Hong Kong’s most vulnerable, as the city battles the coronavirus pandemic.“I ask them, ‘how are you doing…
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- newRoad accidents are likely to kill more people than coronavirus. The world needs to keep perspective
“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main … and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”Less than 50 years…
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- newLife as a coronavirus patient in Wuhan during its darkest hour
Wuhan primary schoolteacher Xiao Ya still occasionally feels short of breath, weeks after her discharge from hospital where she spent a month being treated for Covid-19, the disease caused by the new…
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- newNorth Korea fires more missiles amid coronavirus outbreak
North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the ocean off its east coast on Sunday, the latest in an unprecedented flurry of launches that South Korea decried as “i…
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- newCoronavirus leaves Australian economy facing first recession in 30 years
Anthony Price’s calendar had been chock-a-block with work for weeks to come. Then the Perth-based entertainer and costume designer watched his gigs evaporate overnight as the Australian government o…
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- newTaliban rejects Afghan negotiation team in long-awaited talks
The Taliban on Saturday rejected an Afghan government negotiation team set up to hold talks with the insurgent group in a bid to end the country’s 18-year-old conflict.After months of delays, the go…
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- newLights off around the globe for Earth Hour amid coronavirus restrictions
Despite coronavirus restrictions, Earth Hour has commenced across the world, starting from New Zealand, followed by Fiji and Australia, with lights switched off on famous buildings and regular homes t…
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