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Migrant workers in Singapore fear job loss after coronavirus quarantine ends | South China Morning Post
As Singapore begins easing its coronavirus lockdown measures, many migrant workers in the country are worried about keeping their jobs as the economy looks grim amid the pandemic.
Escaping War, Surviving a Pandemic: Turkey’s Syrian Refugees Face Coronavirus Struggles
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‘Breathe in, breathe out’: Yoga helps Bangladesh police boost mental health amid Covid-19 pandemic | South China Morning Post
To boost their health during the coronavirus pandemic, police in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka have been taking part in mass yoga sessions. More than 6,000 officers have been infected with Covid-19, and at least 19 have died from the disease. They also have been central to efforts to enforce a lockdown in Bangladesh…
Rebel City: SCMP journalists reflect on a year of covering Hong Kong’s civil unrest | South China Morning Post
Rebel City: Hong Kong’s Year of Water and Fire is a new anthology of reporting by South China Morning Post journalists who have been covering anti-government protests which have rocked Hong Kong over the course of a year starting on June 9, 2019. On the anniversary of the start of the unrest, Elaine Ly spoke with th…
Chinese villager creates wall painting using burning charcoal | South China Morning Post
A villager in China’s Anhui province uses burning charcoal to create art pieces on the walls of an abandoned primary school. Chao Ge stopped drawing after high school, but picked it up again while on lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic. He likes to draw animals and Chinese heroes the most.
A year of anti-government protests in Hong Kong | South China Morning Post
It has been one year since anti-government protests started in Hong Kong on June 9, 2020. On that day, an estimated 1 million people took to the streets to demonstrate against an extradition bill which would have allowed fugitives to be sent to mainland China and other jurisdictions with which Hong Kong has no excha…
Hong Kong government to bail out Cathay Pacific with HK$30 billion in loans and direct stake | South China Morning Post
The Hong Kong government has taken the unprecedented step of bailing out the city’s flagship airline, Cathay Pacific, which has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.
From Cold War to coronavirus, Thailand’s hero grandma fights to protect villagers from Covid-19 | South China Morning Post
For the past 38 years, Surin Makradee has been giving basic advice to people in her village in central Thailand’s Ang Thong province as a village health care volunteer. Now during the Covid-19 pandemic, the 77-year-old is joining over one million community workers who go door-to-door doing temperature checks and tea…
Coronavirus Pandemic Fuels Mobile Money Transactions in Nigeria
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WHO says Covid-19 situation is worsening worldwide | South China Morning Post
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on June 8, 2020 that the coronavirus pandemic situation was worsening around the world after the WHO recording its highest daily tally of new infections. Video source: World Health Organisation
Hong Kong’s national security law is like ‘anti-virus software’, top Beijing official says | South China Morning Post
Hong Kong’s new national security law is like “anti-virus software”, top Beijing official Zhang Xiaoming said on June 8, 2020. The deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office added that the new law will give more room to “one country, two systems”.
Some Tanzanians Resort to Bogus Steam Treatment for Coronavirus
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Indian factories struggle to reopen after coronavirus lockdowns because of a lack of workers | South China Morning Post
As India lifts lockdown orders to fight Covid-19, factories across the nation are struggling to find workers after many migrant labourers fled urban areas during the pandemic. When a strict curfew went in place in March 2020, many migrant workers were suddenly jobless and were forced to leave the industrialised citi…
Falcon Chicks Getting Ready to Fly Provide Pandemic Escape
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Amid Protests and Pandemic, Evangelical Support Slipping for Trump
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COVID-19 Diaries: No Lockdown, Few Shutdowns, but Taiwan Feels Like It’s Fighting a Pandemic
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‘Grandma Apricot’ finds online fame as she sells fruit on live streams from rural China | South China Morning Post
An 80-year-old woman known as “Grandma Apricot” has quickly become an online star in China after she started selling red apricots with a live-streaming service. Cui Shuxia started live-streaming on May 24, 2020, from China’s northwestern province of Shaanxi as a way of boosting sales of her fruit amid the Covid-19 p…
‘Painful lessons’ of Sars helped Hong Kong’s elderly care homes avoid losing patients to Covid-19 | South China Morning Post
Hong Kong has managed to avoid seeing any deaths from Covid-19 in its elderly care homes, even though the city is just across the border from the Chinese mainland and the original epicentre of the pandemic. Elaine Ly of the South China Morning Post asks the head of social care policy at Hong Kong University, Profess…
Coronavirus: Brazil overtakes Italy as nation with the world’s third-highest Covid-19 death toll | South China Morning Post
Brazil has surpassed Italy as the country with the world’s third-highest coronavirus death toll, rising on figures released the same day as Mexico reported a record number of new Covid-19 cases. On June 4, 2020, Brazil’s health ministry reported a daily record of 1,473 fatalities, taking its total tally to more than…
Life on Earth is breathing cleaner air as the deadly coronavirus spreads around the world | South China Morning Post
Clearer skies are an unexpected outcome of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. As Covid-19 brings economies to a virtual standstill, shuts down factories and grounds airlines, carbon dioxide emissions are falling. Scientists say the decline in 2020 is now expected to be the largest recorded since World War II.
WHO says world now seeing over 100,000 new Covid-19 cases a day | South China Morning Post
More than 100,000 new Covid-19 cases have been reported globally each day for the past five days, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). In a press conference on June 3, 2020, the WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said the US is seeing more new daily infections than the rest of the worl…
Nigeria Business Owners Sell Goods from Car Trunks as Pandemic Workaround
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Tests on nearly 10 million people in Chinese city of Wuhan turn up only 300 coronavirus cases | South China Morning Post
Wuhan, the central Chinese city that was the initial epicentre of what is now a global coronavirus pandemic, has finished a citywide screening for Covid-19. Authorities from the surrounding province of Hubei announced on June 2, 2020, that health workers have screened close to 10 million people in the city over two …
Hongkongers vow to remember Tiananmen Square crackdown, despite ban of annual vigil | South China Morning Post
For the first time in 30 years, an annual public vigil for victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown will not be held in Hong Kong. Police said they did not approve the event over concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
‘Land swimming’ lessons in Chinese universities amid coronavirus pandemic | South China Morning Post
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, university students in China are having swimming lessons without having to enter a pool. Students bring their own plastic basins to practise breathing techniques.
Chinese noodle shop owner rocks on to fight coronavirus blues | South China Morning Post
Wang Zongxing’s restaurant business in the southeastern Chinese city of Shenzhen has been badly hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. But the 33-year-old noodle shop owner is also frontman in a rock 'n' roll band, a side gig that is helping him play his way through the Covid-19 “blues”.
WHO director calls for continued US collaboration | South China Morning Post
The director general of the World Health Organisation has called for continued collaboration between the UN health body and the United States. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made his remarks on June 1, 2020, days after US President Donald Trump said Washington would terminate its relationship with the WHO.
Indian coronavirus death toll surpasses China’s, and rising, despite strict nationwide lockdown | South China Morning Post
With more than 190,500 Covid-19 infections reported as of June 1, 2020, India has become the seventh worst-hit country in the ongoing global pandemic.
Masks and gloves found in the Mediterranean Sea raise concerns about coronavirus-linked pollution | South China Morning Post
As countries started to ease coronavirus lockdown measures, a French environmental group has found face masks and latex gloves in the Mediterranean Sea, raising concerns about pollution linked to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Could Uber move its Asia regional headquarters to Hong Kong? | South China Morning Post
Uber Hong Kong General Manager Estyn Chung spoke with the South China Morning Post about how moving the ride-hailing company’s Asia headquarters to Hong Kong could benefit the city as well as offer a win-win deal for residents struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic and political uncertainties. On May 26, 2020, Uber s…
Woman saves children from falling glass door with her body in China | South China Morning Post
A woman in China’s Sichuan Province saved children from a falling glass door. She blocked the door with her body, which created a gap, so the girl only suffered from minor scratches. She stayed at the hospital for 12 days and has already been discharged.
Istanbul Man Rescues Street Animals from Pandemic
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Online Mapping Tool Created for Natural Disasters Now Helps Feed Pandemic Hungry
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Indonesia coronavirus death toll may be higher than reported, burial numbers indicate | South China Morning Post
Indonesia’s Health Ministry announced on May 28, 2020, that more than 1,400 people had died from Covid-19 in the country. But burial numbers in Jakarta indicate the coronavirus death toll may be higher than officially reported.
Thousands of Filipino migrant workers to return to homes after Covid-19 quarantines | South China Morning Post
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gave government officials a week to process the cases of more than 24,000 repatriated Filipino workers who have been stuck in coronavirus quarantine in Manila or on cruise ships. The presidential order announced on May 25, 2020, applies to stranded migrant workers who will now be…
Baby puma cubs Pandemic and Quarantine born in Mexican Zoo | South China Morning Post
Pandemic and Quarantine are two puma cubs which were born at the Africa Bio Zoo in the Mexican city of Cordoba. They are American pumas (also known as puma concolor) and the main threats to their survival are loss of habitat and overhunting. Zoo owner Gonzalo Rodriguez decided to name the cubs after the worldwide pa…
Britain’s Press Freedom Under Threat Amid Covid-19 Pandemic, Journalists Warn
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on pandemic, China-US tensions and Hong Kong | South China Morning Post
China’s annual parliamentary session wrapped up on May 28, 2020 in Beijing. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang held a press conference to mark the end of the session. He touched on various issues facing the country including the passage of a national security bill for Hong Kong, heightening tensions between the US and China…
Pandemic Lockdowns, Layoffs Devastate Livelihoods Worldwide
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Coronavirus fashion trend? Indian photo studio staying in business with ’faceprint’ masks | South China Morning Post
A photo studio in southern India’s Chennai city has started making masks with “faceprints” using images of the noses and mouths of their customers as an innovative way to save the business from failing amid the coronavirus pandemic.