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Tens of thousands of fans of Diego Maradona gathered in Buenos Aires on November 26, 2020, as the football legend's cortege moved from the Casa Rosada presidential palace to the Bella Vista cemetery. Maradona died at home at the age of 60 from a heart attack on November 25. Not all in the crowd were wearing masks, d…
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Three-month-old Yemeni twins, Al-Hasan and AI-Hussein, are suffering from acute malnutrition and are among the more than 20 such cases admitted each day to the hospital where they are now being treated. Yemen is in “imminent danger of the worst famine the world has seen for decades”, United Nations Secretary General…
The coronavirus pandemic brings a halt to most anti-government protests, and Beijing is determined not to allow a repeat of the past year’s chaos. It imposes a far-reaching national security law on Hong Kong, banning acts of subversion, secession, terrorism and colluding with foreign forces. The new legal regime is …
Researchers in Singapore have developed a smart mask with sensors that can detect a wearer’s vital signs, including blood oxygen saturation, blood pressure, heart rate and skin temperature. The data can be used to watch for potential illnesses, including Covid-19. Researchers at Nanyang Technological University and …
Belgium is set to become a hub for coronavirus vaccine distribution across Europe and Africa. Home to several pharmaceutical companies, and a major transport link for both regions, the nation is preparing to handle a huge volume of vaccine doses. On November 25, 2020, European Commission President Ursula von der Ley…
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Despite a government order to close restaurants and bars in Germany, one eatery in Frankfurt has a full house of panda plush toys arranged to look like they are enjoying a meal with Corona beer. Pino restaurant owner Giuseppe Fichera calls the silent protest against lockdown measures a “panda-mic”, in a play on the …
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South Korea is experiencing a delivery boom driven by the coronavirus pandemic. But the business benefits come at a sobering cost to the sector, which has seen as many as fifteen delivery workers dying as of mid-November 2020. Families of those who died said extreme overwork had harmed the health of the workers.
Some very pricey personal protection adorned with a diamond or precious pearls has gone on sale in Japan. Carrying a price tag of over US$10,500 each, the handmade face masks turned up on Cox Co’s Mask.com chain in mid-November 2020. The company said it is an attempt to cheer people up and spur sales for a fashion i…
A growing number of people in the US are seeking food handouts as the nation’s Covid-19 cases continue to rise. The Meadowlands YMCA in the state of New Jersey has partnered with a local food bank and other organisations to help people in need. Many of those seeking free food were struggling because they have lost j…
Hong Kong has announced that it will reopen its Covid-19 treatment centre at AsiaWorld-Expo on November 25, 2020. The decision came as the city faces its largest cluster of infections since the pandemic began in January. Hong Kong officials have also announced more measures to tackle the city’s fourth wave of corona…
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A middle school in the Chinese city of Shanghai has installed a robotic cook in its canteen to improve the safety of food preparation during the coronavirus pandemic.
Known as the “world’s loneliest elephant”, Kaavan has bid farewell to Pakistan with a party at Islamabad Zoo in Pakistan on November 23, 2020. Pakistan’s only Asian elephant, Kaavan was overweight and suffering from mental illnesses while chained up in the zoo in the Pakistani capital. His plight sparked an internat…
About 650 bodies of Covid-19 victims in New York are still being kept in cold storage in refrigerated trucks months after they died. The city’s medical examiner has said that many families of the dead cannot be contacted or they are unable to afford a burial for their loved ones.
Covid-19 has changed the face of the holidays in the Netherlands, where Dutch children this year must wait in cars for a socially-distanced meeting with Sinterklaas. The legendary figure based on St Nicholas, the patron saint of children and an inspiration for Santa Claus. In Dutch holiday lore, Sinterklaas is said …
Christmas is supposed to be the peak sales season for toy shops in France, but the coronavirus pandemic has left many of them struggling to survive during the 2020 holiday season.
The second international Cybathlon has been held despite the Covid-19 pandemic, with paraplegic athletes from around the world taking part in over 50 teams from about 20 countries. The event on November 14, 2020 was conducted remotely in six categories, including obstacle courses and bike races. Cybathon is schedule…
Hong Kong’s new Covid-19 cluster centred on dance clubs has mushroomed into the city’s second-largest outbreak of the pandemic. Authorities had earlier warned of a “super-spreading” event at the venues, as the city recorded its highest daily new case figure in three months. Among 68 cases confirmed on November 22, 2…
The Hong Kong Police College organised a passing-out parade on November 21, 2020, for 173 new officers who graduated in September and November 2020. The 46 probationary inspectors and 127 recruit constables wore masks throughout the ceremony because of the coronavirus pandemic and as the city fights the start of its…
The world-famous Champs-Elysees in the French capital Paris was all but empty on November 22, 2020, even after Christmas lights were turned on along the famous avenue. Though France is under its second lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic, there are signs that the government may be able to ease coronavirus restrictions…
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Four volunteers who went to do environmental work on a remote Hawaiian atoll nearly nine months ago are now coping with a new normal after returning to a world struggling to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control. In February 2020, they sailed to the Kure Atoll on the northern edge of an uninhabited part of the N…
In an interview with the South China Morning Post on Friday morning, before Hong Kong announced a rise in virus cases, Singapore’s Minister for Transport Ong Ye Kung said the travel bubble between the Asian aviation hubs would set an example for air travel around the world. From November 22, 2020, travelling between…
Hundreds of tour buses are gathering dust in a makeshift car park in a container port in northern Hong Kong as the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate the city’s tourism industry. The vehicles have been off the road for 10 months since authorities banned non-residents from entering Hong Kong in a bid to cont…
Faiqa Sultani says she was feeling depressed after losing her job amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The Afghan artist decided to channel her emotions into an art group called the Namad Company, which promotes her native country’s traditional felt painting.
In its latest global survey, The Economist Intelligence Unit found that Hong Kong, Paris and Zurich were tied for top slot on a list of the world’s most expensive cities. The survey released in mid-November 2020 looked at how the Covid-19 pandemic changed the cost of living based on a comparison of prices for nearly…
The first 120,000 doses of CoronaVac, a Covid-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech, arrived at Sao Paulo’s international airport on November 19, 2020.
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Former Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung has condemned his "arbitrary arrest" by the police. Hui and two other opposition lawmakers, Raymond Chan Chi-chuen and Eddie Chu Hoi-dick, were arrested earlier in the day on November 18, 2020, in relation to incidents in May and June when they tried to disrupt the passage …
In Indonesia, the world’s biggest palm oil producer, there are reports that women and girls are sacrificing their health to produce one of the world’s most versatile vegetable oils.
Japan is expecting to see a record low number of newborns in 2020, government sources said. The figure is projected to fall to about 845,000 births, which is about 20,000 fewer newborns than the previous record, which occurred in 2019. The Covid-19 pandemic has been blamed for smaller numbers of marriages and pregna…
About 12 years ago, a male buffalo with a swollen leg and a misshapen hip joint took shelter at Leung Siu-wah's home on Lantau Island home in Hong Kong. It was a chance encounter, but one that changed her life forever. Leung cared for the wounded animal who she affectionately named Ngau Ngau which means "cow cow" in…
Researchers in Italy may have found new evidence offering clues about the origin of the coronavirus, according to a peer-reviewed study published with the National Cancer Institute of Milan. The findings published on November 11, 2020, in the Tumori Journal suggested that the microbe that causes Covid-19 may have be…
China now has "extremely low levels" of coronavirus infections, according to the executive director of the World Health Organization’s health emergencies programme Michael Ryan. The WHO official also said on November 16, 2020, that South Korea, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand and Thailand were countries that have aggr…
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A small factory on the outskirts of the Iraqi city of Karbala has since 2004 been employing about 100 women who sort dates for export. They work for about seven months after the dates are harvested each year. The jobs provide critical income for the female workers, who are often single mothers struggling to provide …
An informal network of volunteers in Singapore has been helping the city state’s less fortunate cope during the coronavirus pandemic. The Keeping Hope Alive group has been working since 2007, but had to temporarily stop their activities because of the pandemic. In October 2020, they resumed visiting people in neighb…
As the end of 2020 approaches, many countries and regions around the world are seeing Covid-19 cases spike again to record-setting levels. But Taiwan has managed to hold its transmission rate to zero, with no new locally transmitted cases found for more than 200 days. Taiwan has been earning praise for its virus-con…
White House coronavirus adviser Anthony Fauci said the Covid-19 vaccine is coming but he urged the public not to let its guard down.
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