HONG KONG: China’s new security law has sent fear coursing through many Hong Kong residents, but the city’s commercial community has largely embraced it as a way to get back to doing business. The controversial legislation has granted mainland Chinese authorities unprecedented control as they seek to end the protests […]
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JAKARTA: Indonesia reported 1,624 coronavirus infections on Thursday (Jul 2) in its biggest jump in new cases since the epidemic began, health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said. This brings the total number of infections to 59,394. The country also reported 53 new deaths, taking cumulative COVID-19 fatalities to 2,987.
WASHINGTON: New COVID-19 cases in the United States rose by nearly 50,000 on Wednesday (Jul 1), according to a Reuters tally, marking the biggest one-day spike since the start of the pandemic. The record follows a warning by the government’s top infectious diseases expert that the number could soon double […]
SHANGHAI: China on Thursday (Jul 2) reported three new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Jul 1, compared with three cases a day earlier, the health authority said. Two of the new infections were imported cases, the National Health Commission said in a statement, while the capital city of Beijing […]
GENEVA: The global coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday (Jul 1), with the number of daily cases surging beyond 160,000 every day in the past week, a record. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also told a virtual briefing that well over half of all cases […]
SYDNEY: Authorities on Tuesday (Jun 30) ordered the lockdown of 36 suburbs in Australia’s second biggest city Melbourne in an attempt to stop a spike in coronavius cases, a dramatic departure from the relaxation of restrictions elsewhere in the country. From midnight on Wednesday the first suburb-specific stay-home order will […]
BRUSSELS: The United States is not on a “safe list” of destinations for non-essential travel due to be unveiled by European Union governments later on Tuesday (Jun 30), three diplomats said. The 27-member bloc is expected to give outline approval to leisure or business travel from Wednesday to 14 countries […]
LOS ANGELES: California marked a record spike in new COVID-19 infections on Monday (Jun 29), a Reuters tally showed, as Los Angeles reported an “alarming” one-day surge that put it to over 100,000 cases. Los Angeles has become a new epicenter in the pandemic as coronavirus cases and hospitalisations surge […]
The shine has come off what was once seen as China’s deft ability to make friends and wield influence, says Mark Beeson. PERTH, Australia: Nearly a century ago, Dale Carnegie achieved world renown for his book How to Win Friends and Influence People. I’m not sure if it was ever […]
LONDON: The British government on Monday (Jun 29) ordered schools and non-essential shops in the central English city of Leicester to close after a localised outbreak of coronavirus. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said nationwide moves to ease a three-month lockdown would be reversed in Leicester, where the infection rate is […]