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Police have arrested nine people suspected of covering up the shoddy construction and unsafe conditions of a six-storey building that collapsed in the Chinese city of Changsha, in central China. At least 39 people were missing, most of them students of the nearby Changsha Medical University, after the mixed-use buil…
South Korean professor Kang Dong-wan used to learn about North Korean culture by meeting with tourists in Chinese cities. Restricted travel due to the Covid-19 pandemic has made his job more difficult, but not impossible. Since September 2020, Dong-wan has collected some 2,000 pieces of rubbish washed ashore on Sout…
Taiwan’s health officials said they remain committed to living with the virus, as the self-ruled island’s Covid-19 cases exceeded 11,000 a day on April 28, 2022. Health minister Chen Shih-chung said Taiwan is likely facing a new pandemic wave, with daily cases peaking between 40,000 and 100,000 before it starts subs…
A Japanese woman recognised as the world’s oldest person, Kane Tanaka, has died aged 119, just months short of her 120th birthday. Tanaka died on April 19, 2022, at a hospital in Fukuoka, her hometown in southern Japan where she spent all of her life. The Guinness Book of Records recognised her as the oldest person …
Hundreds of Singaporeans staged a candlelight vigil on April 25, 2022, to protest the death penalty for a Malaysian man named Nagaenthran Dharmalingam. He was arrested in 2009 for trafficking 43 grams (1.5 ounces) of heroin into Singapore. His execution date is set for April 27. Protestors said he should be spared b…
Shanghai resident Kumi Wu was already recovering from a sore throat when she received the order to quarantine at a makeshift Covid-19 hospital in Shanghai’s Pudong district. The 26-year-old began recording her experience entering a system stretched thin by the city’s ongoing lockdowns amid its worst coronavirus outb…
The Chinese capital of Beijing ordered mass testing of some 20 million residents, spread across 10 districts and one zone on April 25, 2022. The city has recorded 80 Covid-19 cases over the last four days, sparking concerns of a potential lockdown as Shanghai, 1,100km (684 miles) to the south, enters a fourth week o…
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Researchers in Beijing said they have developed a robot rat that they hope can be used in post-disaster rescue missions. The team behind the invention, from Beijing Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University, said the rat can squeeze through narrow spaces, climb slopes, get past obstacles and walk on snow. It c…
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Around 59,600 Ukrainians in the US are eligible to apply to remain for up to 18 months under an expanded Temporary Protected Status programme. This has allowed Ukrainians to cross the border faster than other asylum seekers, including Augusto Martinez, a Honduran migrant waiting for the end of a pandemic-era expulsi…
A 35-year-old breast cancer patient had a wonderful wedding photoshoot with her husband and son recently, which went viral online. Although she lost her hair due to chemotherapy, she isn’t afraid to show off her bald head. By sharing daily life videos on social media platforms, she wants to bring positivity to her f…
Shanghai reported its first fatalities from the current Covid-19 wave on April 18, 2022. All three patients who died were over the age of 85 and unvaccinated. The first batch of deaths reported from the latest wave came as the city’s residents continue to cope with stringent measures imposed by the city. Among them …
Three Chinese astronauts safely returned to Earth aboard the Shenzhou 13 capsule on April 16, 2022, after spending 182 days in orbit aboard China’s Tiangong space station. Astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu were all in good physical and mental shape after landing in China’s Inner Mongolia autonomo…
Restaurant owners across Asia, from South Korea to Pakistan, are feeling the pinch, as prices of staple ingredients soar because of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine-Russia war. Supply chains have been disrupted, transportation costs have risen sharply and consumers have cut back spending. To avoid closing their…
Students are preparing for Hong Kong’s annual university entrance exams, which are set to begin on April 22, 2022. The Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams are among the most important tests for students in the city, since their results determine eligibility to attend tertiary institutions. The Post spoke with…
Since the Covid-19 pandemic started in 2020, Shanghai had enjoyed huge success in balancing infection control and quality of life. Mass screening and lockdowns were a rare sight in China’s most populous city. But that success story came to an abrupt end when the Omicron variant outpaced the city’s responses in March…
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Shanghai authorities have backed away from their plan to relax lockdown measures in the city as daily Covid-19 infections remain high. China’s biggest commercial city added 27,719 new coronavirus cases according to data released on April 14, 2022, bringing the city’s total infections to 280,000 since March 1. Reside…
A hospital train rolled away from the eastern front lines of Ukraine’s war with invading Russian forces on April 10, 2022, ferrying wounded people to relative safety in the western city of Lviv. Among the 48 wounded and elderly patients on board was electrician Evhen Perepelytsai, who lost a leg during shelling of h…
Shanghai reported 26,330 confirmed Covid-19 infections on April 13, 2022, a daily record for the 11th time in 12 days. The surge has continued despite more than a week of lockdowns and quarantines for the city’s population of 25 million people. At an April 12 news conference in the Chinese capital Beijing, Lei Zheng…
A group of medical workers from a hospital in China’s Fujian province hugged their families before departing to aid Shanghai’s Covid-19 outbreak.
A magnetic slime robot has been developed by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the hope of using it in surgery. The slime contains magnetic particles which can be manipulated when external magnets are applied to it. Although the magnetic particles are toxic, a protective coating is being develope…
A social services group is working with a medical professionals group to offer door-to-door home vaccinations for elderly and disabled patients who can't leave their residences. The Hong Kong Council of Social Service and the Federation of Medical Societies of Hong Kong aim to inoculate 10,000 residents. The scheme …
Some hospitals in Thailand have installed vending machines for Covid-19 patients with mild or no symptoms. After being discharged from hospital, patients can pick up medicine and self-testing kits before continuing self-isolation at home. Thailand reported a sharp rise of over 26,000 daily Covid-19 infections on Apr…
A team of experienced medical staff from Wuhan arrived in Shanghai on April 6, 2022, to help fight the latest surge in Covid-19 infections. To support the latest mass testing in Shanghai, around 1,000 medical workers have been dispatched to makeshift hospitals that started operations in Shanghai recently. Wuhan was …
A boxer and ex-convict from East London faces life in prison in the Philippines on accusations that he was the head of a gang that waged a “reign of terror” that included kidnapping, extortion and drug trafficking, over a Makati red-light district. Darren Wall was arrested on March 23, 2022, alongside his wife, 23-y…
Shanghai eased restrictions on April 6, 2022, allowing Covid-positive children to stay with their parents. The easing came just one day after Shanghai announced that all Covid-19 patients – from babies to the elderly – had to be isolated in accordance with mainland China's anti-virus laws and regulations. But now, f…
Protests continued in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo on April 6, 2022, as demonstrators called for the resignation of the country’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the country’s economic crisis. Dozens of lawmakers walked out of Rajapaksa’s ruling coalition on April 5, leaving his government in a minority. The countr…
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Hong Kong’s only waste incinerator is struggling to deal with vast amounts of medical waste generated by the city’s fifth wave of Covid-19. Daily medical waste levels are said to be twice that of the incinerator’s capacity. From March 19-23, 2022, the city generated over three times more clinical waste each day , co…
A woman in China’s Wuhan province gave birth to a son after experiencing 13 miscarriages in the past 12 years. The 32-year-old has systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disease which puts her at a higher risk of miscarriage.
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Hundreds of protesters in Singapore rallied against the death penalty on April 3, 2022, in a rare demonstration inside the city state after it carried out the first execution in two years on March 30, 2022. Singapore has some of the world’s toughest drugs laws and authorities insist that capital punishment is an eff…
As Shanghai continues its uphill battle against Covid-19, China has deployed 2,000 medics from the People’s Liberation Army and thousands of medical teams from around the country to help contain the outbreak.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced on April 4, 2022, that she will not be seeking a second term. Carrie said she informed China’s central government of her intention in March 2021, while she was in Beijing to attend the annual “two sessions” meetings of the National People's Congress and the Chi…
Social-distancing curbs in Hong Kong will be eased starting April 21, 2022, with businesses and various venues allowed to reopen in phases. The Post spoke to several business sectors on what they think of the government policies to tackle the city's fifth pandemic wave.
About 80 people live at the Bahar-Aar Sanatorium just outside Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. They are survivors of leprosy, a disease that for many causes physical deformities, poor eyesight and other health problems. Although leprosy is fully curable today, for decades communities arou…
Colombian authorities have seized 143 tarantulas that were allegedly being smuggled through Bogota’s international airport. The insects were placed in plastic bags and concealed inside a chess set being shipped to Mexico City, police said on March 31, 2022. At least 12 of the 143 tarantulas died because of inadequat…
On March 29, 2022, Chinese media reported that a robotic dog equipped with a loudspeaker has been deployed to broadcast anti-pandemic measures in a residential area in eastern China. Footage has emerged appearing to show the mechanical dog roaming through neighbourhoods giving safety instructions, such as "wear a ma…
An injured Ukrainian boy cried and repeatedly asked to see his father, who was also injured and being treated in another part of a hospital in Zaporizhzhia on March 30, 2022. They were hurt amid fighting in the besieged coastal city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, some 200km (124 miles) from the hospital. Mariu…
Singapore loosened multiple pandemic restrictions on March 29, 2022, as part of the city state’s plan to “take a decisive step forward towards living with Covid-19”. The new measures include the removal of an outdoor mask mandate, the resumption of alcohol sales after 10:30pm and allowing group gatherings of up to 1…
Singapore is easing its Covid-19 restrictions, starting with the March 29, 2022, lifting of an outdoor mask mandate that had been in place for almost two years. Quarantine-free entry to the city state will be allowed for vaccinated travellers from April 1. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his counterpart in Malays…
One of the richest cities in Asia, Hong Kong is in the midst of an economic downturn brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed hundreds from their homes and taken away vital economic lifelines for the more than 1,500 already sleeping on the city’s streets, shelters and temporary housing. A recent unof…
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China’s northeastern province of Jilin is still trying to contain a serious outbreak of Covid-19, with infections in the province accounting for 90 per cent of the country’s 2,010 locally transmitted cases on March 23, 2022. Most of them were reported in the provincial capital Changchun, which saw 1,280 locally tran…
Despite locking down residential blocks and conducting frequent Covid-19 tests, the Chinese megacity of Shanghai continues to record over 100 new cases each day. While China’s hardline policies to fight the spread of the coronavirus have helped the country keep pandemic at bay, the latest round of lockdowns has had …
Hospital staff helped clear rubble from a psychiatric facility in Mykolayiv, Ukraine, after a Russian missile strike on March 22, 2022. Around 50 people would usually be in the wing that was bombed at the hospital in the Black Sea port city, but staff had moved them elsewhere just 20 minutes before the attack. The p…
Many Shanghai residents quarantining at home have been relying on grocery deliveries for their food supply as the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai battles its worst Covid-19 outbreak since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. While the city has avoided a citywide lockdown, ongoing mass testing under way sinc…
A large herd of horses from a farm in China’s western region of Xinjiang has been making its way back to grasslands as snow starts to melt. The animals, which were mainly used as transport by local herdsmen in the past, are now an attraction for visitors during the tourism season that runs from April to September ea…
