HANOI: The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted about 31 million workers in Vietnam, with 900,000 out of work and nearly 18 million people receiving less income than before, a government agency said on Friday (Jul 10). If solutions to drive business activity were not immediately implemented, […]
Month: July 2020
NEW DELHI: When Chandana Hiran was a child, strangers would urge her to lighten her skin. Today the Indian student is leading a campaign against whitening creams as global anti-racism protests highlight the obsession with fair complexions for many in Asia. The campaign achieved its first victory when cosmetics giant […]
BANGKOK: US Army Chief of Staff General James McConville met with Thailand’s prime minister and its army chief on Friday (Jul 10), in the first high-level visit by a foreign delegation to Thailand since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted international travel. McConville met with Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and also Thai […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police on Friday (Jul 10) called in a group of Australian journalists from Al Jazeera for questioning over a documentary about the arrest of migrants, as the broadcaster expressed shock at the investigation. The probe into the Qatar-based network’s programme has added to concerns about a widening […]
MELBOURNE: Australia’s national cabinet met on Friday (Jul 10) to discuss slowing the number of citizens allowed to return to the country from overseas, as authorities grapple with a COVID-19 outbreak in the country’s second most populous state. Victoria reimposed lockdowns in the country’s second largest city, Melbourne, on Thursday […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s former prime minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained “flat-footed” in its response to pandemics it faces future economic, social and political crisis, after she was appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to lead a review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO […]
ANAHEIM, California: Disney’s California theme park reopening may have been thwarted by coronavirus, but hundreds lined up early on Thursday (Jul 9) to buy Mickey Mouse merchandise from an adjacent shopping plaza. Downtown Disney District – which borders the world-famous Disneyland and Disney California Adventure theme parks near Los Angeles […]
WASHINGTON: Record-breaking coronavirus cases and deaths in several US states are dimming hopes of economic recovery, with cellphone data showing shoppers are staying away from stores in areas where cases are rising the most. In Arizona, Texas, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, which were among the first states to reopen […]
WASHINGTON: The United States reported more than 56,300 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday (Jul 9), the third day in a row infections have risen by at least 55,000, according to a Reuters tally. With California, Florida and Texas recently breaking records, hopes are fading for an economic rival and US […]
WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday (Jul 9) took its first major action to stop “horrific” abuses against China’s Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims, slapping sanctions on several senior officials. Three officials will be refused US visas and see any US-based assets frozen including Chen Quanguo, the Chinese Communist Party […]