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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…
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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.
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After lifting states of emergency in the last five regions of Japan, the world’s third-largest economy is now focused on trying to stop the coronavirus pandemic from pushing the nation deeper into recession. As part of those efforts, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet approved a new US$1.1 trillion stimulu…
In an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post, Chinese respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan talked about the importance of finding the origin of Covid-19 and the conspiracy theories that the coronavirus that causes it originated from a lab in Wuhan.
Anti-Asian attacks in Canada have increased since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country. Vancouver resident Trixie Ling recalls a racist attack against her on May 9, 2020.
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In an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post, Chinese respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan talked about the importance of finding the origin of Covid-19 and the conspiracy theories that the coronavirus that causes it originated from a lab in Wuhan.
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In Co-Op City, a neighbourhood in New York City’s the Bronx borough, one in every 282 residents has died from the coronavirus. The complex is said to be the worst-hit area of New York during the Covid-19 pandemic. With the largest elderly communities in the US and mostly working class residents, Co-Op city has becom…
China has sent medical supplies to countries in Africa since the coronavirus outbreak hit the continent. During the National People’s Congress, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on May 24, 2020, that China and Africa would continue to work together to fight the Covid-19 pandemic as “good brothers who share a common …
Cyclist Idrees Syawash is pedalling across rural areas of Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar to raise awareness among villagers about the coronavirus pandemic. Syawash says on his visits to more than 120 communities, he found many villagers were unaware of the Covid-19 outbreak because their homes lack elec…
Some Chinese exporters have set their sights on domestic markets as the Covid-19 pandemic hits their trading partners worldwide.
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Thousands of worshippers packed the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Indonesia's far western Aceh province to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. But this year’s festivities were a sombre affair amid the coronavirus pandemic, a stark contrast to those of previous years.
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Some aspiring actors at China’s Hengdian studio have become delivery workers to survive, as filming has been shut down amid the Covid-19 pandemic. They eat instant noodles and deliver food to get by, and keep their dreams of stardom going.
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Chu Lui and Wong Kit-leung were suddenly left homeless for the first time in their lives after the Hong Kong government imposed 14-day quarantines on all travellers from the mainland. The measures to fight Covid-19 were imposed February 8, 2020, and include Hongkongers like Chu and Wong, who lost their jobs as the p…
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to paralyse many workplaces around the world, China is getting its own outbreak under control, allowing most companies to reopen for business. But measures to fight the spread of the coronavirus that causes the disease take a great deal of effort to prepare. This is how Chinese e-c…
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The world passed 5 million reported infections on May 21, 2020 after the World Health Organisation registered a new daily record number of Covid-19 cases.
The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China’s top political advisory body, kicked off its annual meeting on May 21 after a 2-month delay because of the coronavirus pandemic.
On May 20, 2020, Malaysian authorities arrested more than 200 undocumented immigrants during a raid in PJ Old Town, a section of the city of Petaling Jaya near the capital Kuala Lumpur. Officials said the raid targeting migrants was intended to help curb the spread of coronavirus and done in an area that is locked d…
Many medical workers in Ukraine, who are at the front line of the war against the coronavirus, have to work with substandard equipment, lacking drugs to treat patients while being paid low wages.
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Covid-19, a novel strain of coronavirus first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has since turned into a global health crisis with more than 4.7 million confirmed cases worldwide. This animated timeline shows how the pandemic unfolded in each country as measured by the number of new infections each day since Jan…
Protests against the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic marred Haiti’s Flag Day on May 18, 2020, when the country usually celebrates and pays homage to its national flag. Police in the capital Port-au-Prince dispersed the group of protesters who threw rocks and blocked streets with burning tyres.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has agreed to set up an “impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation” of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic and the actions of the WHO. At the May 19, 2020, virtual meeting of the WHO’s decision-making body the World Health Assembly, China was among those supp…
China normally holds its most important annual political meetings in March, when the top political advisory body and national legislature gather. But in 2020, the meetings were postponed to May 22, 2020, because of the coronavirus pandemic. Although the “two sessions” take place only days apart on the political cale…
Many businesses in China still face grim economic prospects despite the lifting of lockdowns and restrictions to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Although some industries have shown signs of recovery, demand remains weak at venues including luxury shopping centres and wholesale clothing markets, as well as among bars an…
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Gravediggers at Indonesia’s Pondok Ranggon Cemetery, one of the two designated burial grounds for Covid-19 victims, have been toiling since the pandemic broke out. Their increased workload has pointed to the under-reported coronavirus death toll in the country.
