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Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. A resident wears a mask to protect from the coronavirus on New Year's Eve in Beijing on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. This New Year's Eve is being celebrated like no other, with pandemic restrictions limiting crowds and many people bidding farewell to a year they'd prefer to forget. |
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BEIJING (AP) — Two major airports in northeastern China are requiring departing passengers show a negative coronavirus test taken over the previous 72 hours before they can board their planes. The requirements by the Shenyang and Dalian airports come amid a small but persistent growth in cases in the two cities north of Beijing. |
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Four new cases were announced Friday in Liaoning, along with another five cases in Beijing, where emergency testing was ordered for more than a million people following the detection of a small cluster in the northeastern suburbs.
Wary of another wave of infections, China is urging tens of millions.... |
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Elderly women farmers sit at the back of a trailer as they participate in a protest against new farm laws at the Delhi-Haryana state border, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. From students, teachers and nurses to housewives and grandmothers, women are now holding the front.... |
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Elderly women farmers sit at the back of a trailer as they participate in a protest against new farm laws at the Delhi-Haryana state border, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. From students, teachers and nurses to housewives and grandmothers, women are now holding the front.... |
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Elderly women farmers sit at the back of a trailer as they participate in a protest against new farm laws at the Delhi-Haryana state border, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. From students, teachers and nurses to housewives and grandmothers, women are now holding the front.... |
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Phase 3 trials of a Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine found it was 79 percent effective, the Chinese pharma giant said Wednesday, lower than rival jabs developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna but a potential breakthrough in the battle to stem the pandemic in Asia. |
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(Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan oil exports plummeted this month as U.S. sanctions have left some of the South American country’s cargoes stranded in Asia and competition with fellow OPEC+ members is set to heat up. A linchpin of the Venezuelan economy, the sales slumped by about half from November to.... |
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2021 begins after a memorable 2020 - an historic U.S. Presidential election. Islamic State terrorizes. Climate change continues. Fighting COVID with tech. Busy U.S. lawmakers. Farming through uncertainty. |
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A Cambodian team has been crowned champion in the largest eSports tournament in Asia, the first major achievement in the country’s eSports history. HMB eSport, consisting of four Cambodian gamers, has bested teams from Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Indonesia to win the top prize of $15,000 in.... |
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Restaurant owner Joseph Be is a busy guy. This month, he’s debuted three concepts at Asia Times Square, the revamped destination shopping center located at 2625 W. Pioneer Parkway in Grand Prairie: Apsara Thai and Cambodian, Sakari Ramen and Meccha Matcha. And with Apsara, Be is aiming to bring an elusive cuisine to the forefront. |
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Civil society organizations and Cambodia’s banned opposition party have called on the government to release detailed information about revenue it is earning from the petroleum industry, days after the country struck oil following a decades-long quest. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on.... |
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PLOS Pathogens by Albin Fontaine of the Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, and colleagues. Zika virus has triggered large outbreaks in human populations, in some cases causing congenital deformities, fetal loss, or neurological problems in adults. |
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The LNG market enters 2021 with reports of a South Korean company planning to use LNG-cooled warehouses for bulk storage of COVID-19 vaccines as conventional cold distribution chains could be stretched. This is emblematic of how LNG is finding new uses in Asia where gas exporters are looking to the.... |
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December 31 (UPI) —A new epidemiological simulation shows that Asian tiger mosquitoes have a low risk of Zika virus. Aedes aegypti is a major vector of the Zika virus, an infectious disease that spreads from the mother to the foetation and can cause congenital malformations. |
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The growth in the number of malaria parasites with mutations to the gene pfgch1 are concerning because they may increase resistance to the drug, they said. "We need to understand how these mutations work and monitor them as part of malaria surveillance programs," study co-author Taane Clark, a.... |
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Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The Asian tiger mosquito poses only a minor risk for Zika virus , according to new epidemiological simulations. The yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti is the primary vector for Zika virus, the infectious disease that can spread from mother to fetus, causing congenital deformities. |
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New Year’s experiences in Asia and the South Pacific varied greatly depending on country, just like the coronavirus itself.
A multitude of logistical concerns have complicated the process of trying to beat back the scourge that has killed over 340,000 Americans. |
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The midnight fireworks above the Sydney Harbor Bridge and Sydney Opera House were opulent, but the streets were nearly empty this year. Credit... Matthew Abbott for The New York Times. Elsewhere in Asia and the Pacific: The small Pacific island nation of Samoa became one of the first places in the.... |
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The part divestment of the East Container Terminal (ECT) is expected to limit the capacity of the state to reap the benefits of the ending of the leasehold on the adjacent South Asia Gateway Terminals (SAGT). The Professionals National Front opposes any attempt by the state to divest national assets to private and foreign parties. |
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Update with end-of-year speech by Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron and celebration in countries where they have already changed the year, change of origin /// Paris, Dec 31 2020 (.) – The planet began this Thursday to leave the year 2020 behind, marked by the coronavirus pandemic that forces billions.... |
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Largest study of Asia’s rivers unearths 800 years of paleoclimate patterns: The SUTD study will be crucial for assessing future climatic changes and making more informed water management decisions.
Home to many populous river basins, including ten of the world’s biggest rivers, the Asian Monsoon.... |
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The chance of Jack Ma's Ant Group reviving its initial public offering in 2021, after Chinese authorities torpedoed it at the last minute in November, is at best slim. The Alibaba Group Holding offshoot, which was aiming for a $39.6 billion IPO in Shanghai and Hong Kong, has been told by regulators.... |
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In his new year’s message, Bishop of Limerick Brendan Leahy urged people to carry the learnings from 2020 into the next year, in particular to prioritise the most vulnerable in society. “May we never forget this experience of the year when vulnerability was neither ignored nor superficially dealt with,” he said. |
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