Topic: Health — Neutral reports only
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[2025-12-17 15:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Elderly man dies in hospital on Wednesday morning after sustaining multiple injuries as police call for witnesses
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[2025-12-17 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Starting next year, hotels and travel companies must begin automatically reporting visitor locations to a central government database
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[2025-12-17 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Wellness entrepreneur Tricia Yap is helping reshape women’s health by focusing on areas like precision training and lifestyle medicine
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[2025-12-17 13:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong retailer Mannings will cease online operations from December 26 and close its physical stores after January 15
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[2025-12-17 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: One child lost 18 teeth and had to undergo reconstructive surgery. Critics blame the scheme’s ‘chaotic’ roll-out for the tragedy
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[2025-12-17 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: New insurance formulary trims costs of Alzheimer’s and cancer therapies and marks a small win for global novel drug makers
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[2025-12-17 10:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.
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[2025-12-17 08:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Mark Chavez was sentenced to eight months of home confinement and must do 300 hours of community service
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[2025-12-17 06:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Australia’s Prime Minister has visited Bondi hero Ahmed al Ahmed in hospital, after the bystander tried to disarm one of the gunmen in the nation’s deadliest gun attack since 1996.
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[2025-12-17 06:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Health Deputy Minister Dr. Hansaka Wijemuni said that an investigation is underway into the anaesthetic drug Ondansetron, following the deaths of two patients and complications in several others who received it.
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[2025-12-17 06:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: An all-night Pirith chanting followed by an almsgiving to 100 members of the Maha Sangha was held at the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) yesterday to mark its centenary celebrations under the patronage of the Anunayake of the Malwatte Chapter Most Ven. Dimbulkumbure Wimaladhamma Thera and Anunayake Thera of Asgiriya Chapter Most Ven.
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[2025-12-17 06:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: SLT-MOBITEL and eChannelling PLC, in partnership with medical experts from Golden Years Care, have introduced eHomecare’, Sri Lanka’s first doctor-led elderly-care service.
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[2025-12-17 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: As the Indian Army Field Hospital team concluded its humanitarian mission in Sri Lanka and returned to India under Operation Sagar Bandhu on Sunday (14), appreciation was conveyed for the team’s dedicated and professional service in supporting affected communities.
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[2025-12-17 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Cabinet of Ministers on Monday (15) approved the allocation of Rs. 150 million from the ‘Clean Sri Lanka’ Project to the Judicial Service Commission to support the implementation of the e-Court Project, as part of the Government’s efforts to digitalise the judicial system, Health and Mass Media Minister Dr.
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[2025-12-17 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Health and Mass Media Minister Dr.Nalinda Jayatissa said that more than 50% of the Rs.25,000 relief allowance allocated for those affected by recent floods and landslides has already been disbursed. He added that the Government expects to complete the distribution of the Rs.25,000 allowances within the coming week, while the process of providing the Rs.50,000 compensations have also commenced.
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[2025-12-17 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Government has decided to utilize three warehouse buildings in Veyangoda, with a total floor area of 30,000 square feet, to expand the storage capacity of the Medical Supplies Division (MSD) and ensure an uninterrupted supply of medicines to health institutions across the country, Health and Mass Media Minister Dr.
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[2025-12-17 00:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Housing is a basic existential need and affects everything from a person's career chances to physical and mental health. At the same time, finding a suitable place to live can be hard in Germany — and even harder for people who are not white Germans.
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[2025-12-16 23:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Police say 23-year-old driver failed a rapid drug test after reportedly driving erratically in Kai Tak with a pupil on board
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[2025-12-16 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Singapore’s High Court rejects first constitutional challenge in 15 years to decades-old law as executions rise; activists may appeal
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[2025-12-16 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Since the pandemic, restaurants have had trouble finding staff – Roucou Cheese Omakase & Bar is among those that turned to Shift Happens
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[2025-12-16 20:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Family doctors are probably the best place to obtain trusted, first-point information about vaccines and other medicines, say experts, amid a growing and public conflict between the Trump Administration's health agencies and professional, independent medical groups.
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[2025-12-16 19:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Japan Disaster Relief (JDR) medical team departed Sri Lanka today (16) after completing its humanitarian mission to provide emergency healthcare services to communities affected by recent flooding.
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[2025-12-16 19:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hospitals to make allowances as well as deploying more staff during shift to new healthcare payment arrangements from January 1
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[2025-12-16 17:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Chinese authorities uncovered the drug in an international container at the Yantian port in Shenzhen, according to CCTV
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[2025-12-16 16:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Tito Karnavian dismissed the US$60,000 aid package as ‘not much’ compared to Jakarta’s own disaster response, touching a raw nerve online
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[2025-12-16 16:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From ex-NBA player’s cancer treatment to backlash against Malaysia’s ‘moral police’, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent Asia reporting
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[2025-12-16 15:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Badulla Spring Valley Regional Hospital has been temporarily closed due to a potential landslide risk, the Uva Provincial Health Ministry announced.
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[2025-12-16 15:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Veteran musician Mahinda Bandara, the son in law of renowned Sri Lankan songstress Latha Walpola, has dismissed rumours circulating on social media regarding the health of her stating that such claims are false.
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[2025-12-16 14:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘There’s no shortage of cancer cases in this village,’ a worker, who has been sorting plastic in Xa Cau for a decade, says
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[2025-12-16 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: App AQ integrates Apple and Huawei devices, adds family health profiles and smart reminders to boost user engagement
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[2025-12-16 08:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US president dramatically escalates his fight against the drug by signing an executive order and warning against the ‘scourge’ of fentanyl
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[2025-12-16 07:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: In September 2020, the Federal Trade Commission joined regulators in four states to sue four men behind a notorious telemarketing company called Outreach Calling. The FTC alleged that the company, which it described as a “sprawling fundraising operation,” had raised millions on the promise of helping the needy — cancer patients, veterans, firefighters — but instead used the money to line its pockets.
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[2025-12-15 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Jason Collins, who is seeking an experimental treatment, has progressed from being ‘basically a vegetable’ to taking a two-hour walk
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[2025-12-15 21:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Figures from one district in Bihar show thousands living with HIV, contrasting sharply with India’s broader success in cutting infections
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[2025-12-15 20:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: It's that time of year again, when children in countries that celebrate Christmas all over the world are dreaming of what awaits them in brightly wrapped packages — everything ranging from model cars to plastic building blocks, dolls and so much more.
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[2025-12-15 17:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: In China, unhealthy lifestyles, pollution and work-related stress are cited in public health discussions around declining sperm quality
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[2025-12-15 15:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Indian government has donated 17 essential medicines to the country at the request of the Minister of Health and Mass Media
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[2025-12-15 14:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Tokyo’s over 52 per cent funding cut to a global body fighting Aids and malaria risks damaging its hard-won reputation as a ‘peace nation’
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[2025-12-15 13:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Authorities are urging residents to review evacuation plans as simulations suggest a ‘maximum-class’ winter night quake could trap thousands
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[2025-12-15 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: 31-year-old from wealthy family undergoes 37 procedures to look like star; marries man who also has surgery to look like boyfriend of actress
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[2025-12-15 08:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Last year’s meeting focused on survival, but now the emphasis is on unlocking factors to let the domestic economy thrive
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[2025-12-15 06:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Sri Lanka, Dr. Rajesh Sambhajirao Pandav said that the WHO would provide all necessary support for requests made by the Ministry of Health on a priority basis.
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[2025-12-15 06:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: SIP Academy successfully conducted the 19th SIP National Prodigy 2025 contest and 19th National Abacus, Brain Gym and Mental Arithmetic Competition at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium Colombo yesterday (14).
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[2025-12-15 06:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: As part of ‘Operation Sagar Bandhu’, a full-fledged para field hospital, along with a 78 member team of the Integrated Task Force of the Shatrujeet Brigade of the Indian Army, was airlifted to Sri Lanka on December 2, in the wake of severe destruction and service disruptions caused by Cyclone Ditwah.
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[2025-12-15 06:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Wellness at Work: Powered by Wellbeing, hosted by Great Place To Work Sri Lanka, is a transformative conference created to help organisations rethink performance, innovation and retention through a people-first wellbeing lens.
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[2025-12-15 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: There has been a sharp surge in circulation of poliovirus in the province, affecting at least 21 union councils, forcing the chief minister to direct concerned officials to look into the emerging public health crisis and take targeted measures to strengthen immunisation efforts against the crippling disease.
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[2025-12-15 06:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Farmers in southern France are incensed by the government’s mandatory slaughter of herds to contain ‘lumpy skin disease’
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[2025-12-14 19:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: 24-year-old realises dream of riding bike to China by crossing more than 30 countries; describes standing on Great Wall as ‘awesome’
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[2025-12-14 13:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2025-12-14 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Teresa was 19 years old when she moved to India. There, the novice was confronted with misery, hunger and disease. She lived as a nun and teacher in Calcutta (now Kolkata) as a member of the Catholic Loreto Order, which was dedicated to educational and missionary work in India.
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