BEIJING: China’s exports unexpectedly rose in June as overseas economies reopened after lockdowns, while imports grew for the first time this year, reinforcing views the recovery from the pandemic is gaining traction in the world’s second-largest economy. Exports in June edged up 0.5 per cent from a year earlier, customs […]
Day: July 13, 2020
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s economic recovery in the months ahead will be “challenging”, with the journey “slow and uneven”, said Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing on Tuesday (Jul 14). Mr Chan’s comments came after official advance estimates showed Singapore’s gross domestic product (GDP) contracted 41.2 per cent on a quarter-on-quarter […]
Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) ordered teams to adopt tighter biosecurity protocols on Tuesday following a surge of COVID-19 infections in the country’s southeast. MELBOURNE: Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) ordered teams to adopt tighter biosecurity protocols on Tuesday following a surge of COVID-19 infections in the country’s southeast. The […]
SYDNEY: Australian states on Tuesday (Jul 14) tightened restrictions on movement as authorities struggle to contain a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 in the country’s southeast that is starting to spill into other areas. With growing fears of a second coronavirus wave nationally, two states extended border restrictions and Australia’s most […]
SINGAPORE: Singapore has entered a technical recession after its economy contracted 41.2 per cent in the second quarter from the previous three months, dragged down by weak external demand and COVID-19 “circuit breaker” measures. Several months of COVID-19 restrictions and workplace closures have battered Singapore’s construction, retail and tourism sectors, […]
SACRAMENTO: California’s governor on Monday (Jul 13) clamped new restrictions on businesses as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations soared, and the state’s two largest school districts, in Los Angeles and San Diego, said children would be made to stay home in August. Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, ordered bars closed and […]
SAN DIEGO: Hundreds of firefighters battled through a second day from the air, land and water on Monday (Jul 13) to save a US war vessel swept by flames while moored at a San Diego shipyard, as the number of sailors and civilians injured in the blaze rose to nearly […]
WASHINGTON: International students have already been denied entry to the United States under new Trump administration rules that bar them from the country if their schools hold all classes online amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a court document filed on Sunday (Jun 12). The “friend of the court” brief, […]
LONDON: Shoppers in England will have to wear face coverings in shops and supermarkets from Jul 24 to help reduce the risk of a new pick-up in the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said. Johnson said last week that tighter rules on wearing face coverings might […]
LONDON: Britain faces a potentially more deadly second wave of COVID-19 in the coming winter that could kill up to 120,000 people over nine months in a worst-case scenario, health experts said on Tuesday (Jul 14). With COVID-19 more likely to spread in winter as people spend more time together […]