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Beijing, meanwhile, has gone 14 days without a case of local transmission, and city authorities on Sunday said they were downgrading the emergency response level from two to three. The move is largely symbolic, with measures including mandatory social distancing, temperature checks and 14-day.... |
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s latest coronavirus outbreak has spread to a second city in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. One of the 17 new cases reported on Monday was in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, the regional government said on its official microblog. |
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Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.4% in early trading to 22,616.23. South Korea's Kospi dipped 0.5% to 2,190.45, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell nearly 0.7% to 5,993.40. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged 0.1% higher to 25,101.57, while the Shanghai Composite gained 2.6% to 3,298.50. |
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Beijing, meanwhile, has gone 14 days without a case of local transmission, and city authorities on Sunday said they were downgrading the emergency response level from two to three. The move is largely symbolic, with measures including mandatory social distancing, temperature checks and 14-day.... |
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s latest coronavirus outbreak has spread to a second city in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. One of the 17 new cases reported on Monday was in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, the regional government said on its official microblog. |
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TOKYO (AP) A United Arab Emirates spacecraft began its journey to Mars with a blastoff in Japan on Monday in what is the...
LONDON (AP) Britain’s foreign secretary hinted Sunday he may move to suspend the U.K.’s extradition arrangements with Hong Kong, and accused Beijing of... |
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - HSBC , Standard Chartered and other banks in Hong Kong closed branches or curtailed their working hours on Monday after a spike in the number of new coronavirus cases in the Asian financial hub. Hong Kong recorded more than 100 cases in a 24-hour period over the weekend, the most since the pandemic took hold in late January. |
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Monday as investors cautiously eyed the summit of European leaders discussing the pandemic crisis and coronavirus cases continued to soar in the U.S. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.4% in early trading to 22,616.23. South Korea's Kospi dipped 0.5% to 2,190. |
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JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Indonesia's hard won democracy still allows for political dynasties to thrive, a fact resented by many following the euphoric regime change in 1998 for fostering the kind of corruption, collusion and nepotism that characterised the New Order regime. |
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BEIJING – China’s latest coronavirus outbreak has spread to a second city in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. One of the 17 new cases reported on Monday was in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, the regional government said on its official microblog. |
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s latest coronavirus outbreak has spread to a second city in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. One of the 17 new cases reported on Monday was in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, the regional government said on its official microblog. |
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Beijing, meanwhile, has gone 14 days without a case of local transmission, and city authorities on Sunday said they were downgrading the emergency response level from two to three. The move is largely symbolic, with measures including mandatory social distancing, temperature checks and 14-day.... |
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Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.4% in early trading to 22,616.23. South Korea's Kospi dipped 0.5% to 2,190.45, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell nearly 0.7% to 5,993.40. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged 0.1% higher to 25,101.57, while the Shanghai Composite gained 2.6% to 3,298.50. |
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By Bjorn Biel M. Beltran Special Features Assistant Editor. FOR MOST, it has not been a good year. The first half of 2020 has been marred by tragedies and calamities of all types, from uncontrollable wildfires in Australia; locust infestations causing immeasurable devastation in Africa, South Asia,.... |
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Umno should have been buried after its ignominious electoral defeat in 2018. But it was resuscitated when it teamed up with PAS under the so-called Muafakat Nasional charter, which aims at closer political cooperation between the two heavyweights. Umno thinks its fortune has revived and that it.... |
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Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.4% in early trading to 22,616.23. South Korea's Kospi dipped 0.5% to 2,190.45, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell nearly 0.7% to 5,993.40. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged 0.1% higher to 25,101.57, while the Shanghai Composite gained 2.6% to 3,298.50. |
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BEIJING – China’s latest coronavirus outbreak has spread to a second city in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. One of the 17 new cases reported on Monday was in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, the regional government said on its official microblog. |
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Beijing, meanwhile, has gone 14 days without a case of local transmission, and city authorities on Sunday said they were downgrading the emergency response level from two to three. The move is largely symbolic, with measures including mandatory social distancing, temperature checks and 14-day.... |
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s latest coronavirus outbreak has spread to a second city in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. One of the 17 new cases reported on Monday was in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, the regional government said on its official microblog. |
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - HSBC, Standard Chartered and other banks in Hong Kong closed branches or curtailed their working hours on Monday after a spike in the number of new coronavirus cases in the Asian financial hub. Hong Kong recorded more than 100 cases in a 24-hour period over the weekend, the most since the pandemic took hold in late January. |
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Monday as investors cautiously eyed the summit of European leaders discussing the pandemic crisis and coronavirus cases continued to soar in the U.S. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.4% in early trading to 22,616.23. South Korea's Kospi dipped 0.5% to 2,190. |
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Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.4% in early trading to 22,616.23. South Korea's Kospi dipped 0.5% to 2,190.45, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell nearly 0.7% to 5,993.40. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged 0.1% higher to 25,101.57, while the Shanghai Composite gained 2.6% to 3,298.50. |
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Hong Kong’s Hang Seng edged 0.1% higher to 25,101.57, while the Shanghai Composite gained 2.6% to 3,298.50. European Union leaders were headed to a fourth day of talks without reaching an agreement on an unprecedented 1.85 trillion-euro ($2.1 trillion) EU budget and coronavirus recovery fund to tackle the crisis. |
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Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.4% in early trading to 22,616.23. South Korea's Kospi dipped 0.5% to 2,190.45, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell nearly 0.7% to 5,993.40. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged 0.1% higher to 25,101.57, while the Shanghai Composite gained 2.6% to 3,298.50. |
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Last Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced more than 230,000 new global cases of COVID-19 logged in 24 hours-the worst day on record up to that point. Alongside these new cases were an additional 5,000 deaths and a warning that the current wave of infection is nowhere near the end of this crisis. |
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