SYDNEY: Australia’s second-most populated state Victoria is considering a four-week lockdown after recording the biggest one-day surge in new COVID-19 cases, The Australian newspaper reported on Tuesday (Jul 7). The number of COVID-19 cases in the Victorian capital of Melbourne has surged in recent days, prompting authorities to enforce strict […]
Month: July 2020
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s police have been granted vastly expanded powers to conduct warrantless raids and surveillance – as well as issue Internet takedown notices – under Beijing’s new national security law. The announcement comes as major tech companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter said they were suspending requests from […]
SYDNEY: Australian officials scrambled on Tuesday (Jul 7) to implement a travel permit system before closing the busy border between its two most populous states to contain a coronavirus outbreak in the city of Melbourne. The state line between New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, which is highly porous and […]
TAIPEI: The imposition of a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong has sent chills through Taiwan, deepening fears that Beijing will focus next on seizing the island. China and Taiwan split in 1949 after nationalist forces lost a civil war to Mao Zedong’s communists, fleeing to the island which […]
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration on Monday (Jul 6) released the names of hundreds of thousands of businesses which took money from a high-profile US$660 billion pandemic aid programme, letting the public see for the first time how the majority of the cash was spent and whether it helped save jobs. […]
FILE PHOTO: Facebook, Google and Twitter logos are seen in this combination photo from Reuters files. SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook, Google, and Twitter suspended processing government requests for user data in Hong Kong, they said on Monday (Jul 7), following China’s establishment of a sweeping new national security law for […]
SACRAMENTO, California: New coronavirus cases soared in California over the July Fourth weekend, stressing some hospital systems and leading to the temporary closure of the state capitol building in Sacramento for deep cleaning, officials said on Monday (Jul 6). The number of people hospitalised with COVID-19 has increased by 50 […]
UNITED NATIONS: China on Monday (Jul 6) joined a global arms trade treaty spurned by the United States, taking a swipe at US President Donald Trump’s administration by accusing it of bullying, unilateralism and undermining efforts to combat global challenges. China’s UN ambassador, Zhang Jun, said he had deposited China’s […]
WASHINGTON, DC: The United States said on Monday (Jul 6) it would not allow foreign students to remain in the country if all of their classes are moved online in the fall because of the coronavirus crisis. “Non-immigrant F-1 and M-1 students attending schools operating entirely online may not take […]
NEW YORK: A white woman who called police and falsely accused an African-American man of threatening her life after he asked her to leash her dog in New York’s Central Park is being criminally charged over the incident, Manhattan’s district attorney said on Monday (Jul 6). Amy Cooper, 41, whose […]