People stand at a booth where passersby can give their signatures in support of a new security law in Hong Kong. WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Friday (May 29) he would strip several of Hong Kong’s special privileges with the United States and bar some Chinese students from […]
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Friday (May 29) said he is terminating the US relationship with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus, saying the WHO had essentially become a puppet organization of China. Appearing in the White House Rose Garden, Trump went ahead with repeated […]
SHANGHAI: China reported no new confirmed coronavirus cases as of the end of May 28, down from two a day earlier, the country’s health authority said on Friday (May 29). The National Health Commission also confirmed five new asymptomatic coronavirus cases on May 28, down from 23 a day earlier.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has denied rumours that he was in Singapore for medical treatment. “I wish to state that that rumour is altogether untrue. For everyone’s information, I am (under) quarantine at my home in Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur,” Mr Muhyiddin said in a Facebook post […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s most populous state on Monday (May 25) deployed hundreds of crowd control staff to enforce social distancing on public transport amid an expected commuter surge as schools and offices reopened and coronavirus cases fell. Australia has reported just over 7,100 COVID-19 infections, including 102 deaths, well below figures […]
SYDNEY: Australia on Monday (May 25) began the first hearings of a powerful inquiry into the causes of catastrophic bushfires that swept across the country, killing 33 people, destroying some 2,500 homes and razing an area the size of South Korea. Fuelled by three years of drought, which experts have […]
BEIJING: China will encourage the people of Taiwan to join it in opposing the island’s independence and promoting China’s “reunification”, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday (May 22), a move likely to worsen Beijing’s poor relations with Taipei. China describes Taiwan as its most sensitive and important territorial issue, […]
TOKYO: Japan’s central bank on Friday (May 22) offered hundreds of billions of dollars in additional lending to help small firms in the world’s third-largest economy struggling with the economic devastation wrought by coronavirus. The Bank of Japan expanded its loan programme by 30 trillion yen (US$279 billion), bringing its […]
SHANGHAI: China will severely punish the illegal hunting and trading of wild animals, it said in its government work report issued on Friday (May 22), as it tries to implement a ban imposed in January as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic has been blamed on a seafood […]
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made an unusually small number of public appearances in the past two months, once again going three weeks without state media reporting his attendance at a public event, according to analysts. Kim’s low profile comes as North Korea imposes anti-coronavirus measures, although […]