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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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China’s e-commerce platform Alibaba racked up 498.2 billion yuan (US$74.1 billion) in sales between November 1 and 11, 2020. The online shopping festival, which falls on November 11 every year, is the world’s largest retail event of its kind. Shoppers scoop up everything from consumer electronics to luxury items and…
Hospitals across Europe are under renewed pressure as a rising number of Covid-19 patients take up limited bed space and medical staff become exhausted. The number of cases has been increasing again in Europe as winter approaches, rising from a reduction in infections and deaths from March to April 2020. The average…
Hong Kong's opposition politicians announced they will resign en masse after four lawmakers from their camp were unseated on November 11, 2020, minutes after China's National People's Congress Standing Committee passed a resolution giving local authorities the power to remove politicians without having to go through…
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has said that lawmakers who are unable to uphold the Basic Law, the city’s mini-constitution, and pledge “allegiance to Hong Kong SAR” should be disqualified from the Legislative Council. She was speaking at a press conference on November 11, 2020, hours after four opposition mem…
A long-awaited travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore will launch on November 22, 2020, when 200 per day people will be allowed to move quarantine-free in each direction between the cities. Details of the landmark deal were announced during press conferences held in both cities on November 11, after weeks of …
Chen Rui says when she discovered a Burberry jacket she did not recall buying was the moment she knew she had to bring in experts to manage her overflowing luxury wardrobe. The Beijing resident is not the only affluent Chinese shopper running out of closet space after they engaged in online spending sprees during th…
Hong Kong’s first socially-distanced outdoor entertainment park has opened to the public. The area along the harbourfront in the city's Central district started welcoming guests on November 10, 2020, as part of local entertainment industry efforts to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Visitors to the park can en…
China's Singles' Day is the largest e-commerce shopping event in the world. Billions of US dollars in sales are spent each November 11, as Chinese shoppers take advantage of deals offered on e-commerce platforms. The 2020 event got under way amid the lingering economic pressure of the coronavirus pandemic, so all ey…
The Brazilian state of Sao Paulo has started building a facility to produce 100 million doses a year of CoronaVac, a vaccine against the coronavirus that Chinese researchers are developing. The factory, due to be completed in September 2021, is the first of its kind in Latin America, said Sao Paulo Governor João Dor…
China’s live-stream retail market is projected to grow to be worth 961 billion yuan (US$145 billion) in 2020, up from 433.9 billion yuan the previous year, according to iiMedia Research. The increase has been linked to a surge in online activity during the coronavirus pandemic. But Chinese retailers are eager to exp…
Denmark has ordered more than a quarter of a million people into lockdown and a mass cull of minks after a mutated variation of the coronavirus was found at farms raising the animals for their fur. The lockdown in the country’s north started November 6, 2020, two days after the government ordered the cull of all 15 …
US president-elect Joe Biden has implored Americans to wear face masks, as he warned of a “dark winter” ahead with coronavirus infection rates rising in the country. Biden said on November 9, 2020, that a mask is not a political statement. He also referred to the positive news about successful tests of a Covid-19 va…
Azrin Mohamad Zawawi, a pilot and flight instructor in Malaysia, has decided to open a food stall after he lost his job because of global travel restrictions and a massive decline in the aviation industry during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Prince Fumihito, or better known as Prince Akishino, was officially proclaimed first in line to the Chrysanthemum throne by his elder brother Emperor Naruhito on November 8, 2020. The ceremony was the latest in a series of royal events after Emperor Naruhito became monarch in 2019 following their father's abdication.
As the daily number of new Covid-19 cases soared in the United States, the Midwest has been hit particularly hard. In the state of Wisconsin, residents are being tested for the coronavirus in 243 testing centres. A record 5,922 cases were reported on November 5, 2020, and 32 per cent of the people being tested have …
There are signs of progress on development of a Covid-19 vaccine being tested by Chinese company Fosun Pharma in collaboration with German’s BioNTech, according to Guo Guangchang, chairman of Fosun International. Guo said the vaccine being developed is an mRNA jab, which is faster and cheaper to produce than traditi…
South Korea said it has resumed tours to Panmunjom, the famous diplomatic meeting place in the demilitarised zone it shares with North Korea. The tours started on November 4, 2020, after being suspended since October 2019, first because of an outbreak of African swine fever in the North and then because of concern a…
Britain's National Health Services is doing trial flights with drones in hopes of improving the efficiency of transporting samples from patients who need to be tested for Covid-19 infections. The drones developed by tech company Apian help minimise human contact with potentially infectious material as they avoid bus…
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her Democratic Party would retain control of the House of Representatives according to results coming in from the November 3, 2020 elections. Speaking at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee office in Washington, Pelosi said the Democrats had focused their races on healt…
After polling stations closed across the United States, election officials in many polling places including Denver, Colorado and Detroit, Michigan were counting ballots late on November 3, 2020. At the Denver Elections Division headquarters, workers wearing masks and medical gloves sorted ballots into trays. Windows…
US stocks closed sharply higher on November 3, 2020, as Americans voted in one of the country's most rancorous presidential elections and investors bet it would lead to a swift deal on more fiscal stimulus to fight the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden's lead over Republican P…
Voters in Minnesota lined up before dawn on November 3, 2020 to cast their ballots in the US presidential election. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic still raging in America, many voters wore masks to the polls. Meanwhile, officials said they have received a record 1.8 million absentee ballots, roughly 62 per cent of the t…
The Covid-19 pandemic has left penguins in an aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa stressed after the outbreak changed their daily routine, animal keepers said. The birds are social creatures and rely on routine. However, this was disrupted when lockdown forced the exhibit to close in March. Instead of seeing hundred…
At a time when Covid-19 has severely interrupted international air travel, Hong Kong airlines are operating “flights to nowhere” in hopes of finding at least a small solution to some of their financial woes at the same time as they give grounded travellers a chance to scratch their itch to get on the road as they wa…
Beijing has urged Washington to stop what it described as “political persecution” and “oppression” of Chinese journalists working in the United States. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wan Wenbin said on November 2, 2020, that US visas of some Chinese were extended last week, but were only valid from August 4 to N…
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Tattoos have long been considered taboo in Japan, where body art is most often linked to criminal gangs. People with tattoos are banned from spas, some beaches and many gyms and pools around the country. But the appearance of inked foreign athletes at the 2019 Rugby World Cup forced some in Japan to rethink their av…
A thousand lanterns brightened up the skies above the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai on October 31, 2020. The display was part of the Yi Peng festival, which takes place on the full moon of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. More than 1,500 people joined the celebration to mark the end of the rainy season an…
Halloween revellers in the central Chinese city of Wuhan flocked to the Happy Valley amusement park to watch a parade on October 29, 2020. The celebrations took place months after the city that was the initial epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to recover from a strict lockdown to fight the spread of the c…
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As China enters its autumn 2020 harvest season, agricultural produce from staples such as rice and corn, to fruits and seaweed are rolling into the consumer market. Beijing authorities say the country can expect a bumper harvest this year, with 650 million tonnes (717 million tons) of grain harvested, according to o…
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The fifth plenum, China’s major policy meeting, took place behind closed doors in Beijing from October 26-29, 2020. The 200-member strong Central Committee, the top decision-making body of the ruling party, delivered a work report, a draft five-year plan and a document outlining China’s long-term objectives up to 20…
Hundreds of protesters marched through the US city of Philadelphia for a second night on October 27, 2020, demanding justice after police fatally shot an African-American man. Police say officers shot 27-year-old Walter Wallace Jnr on October 26 because he would not drop a knife he was holding. The man’s family says…
Xinjiang health authorities said on October 27, 2020, that they had tested 4.7 million people for Covid-19 in the city of Kashgar. The city in China's far western region of Xinjiang has gone back into a lockdown after more than 100 coronavirus patients were identified in a village in Shufu county, about 24km (15 mil…
