WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday (Jun 8) that all COVID-19 measures in the country will be lifted from Tuesday, barring border closure restrictions, as the coronavirus had been eliminated from the country. The country would move to national alert level 1 from midnight on Monday, […]
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SHANGAI: Six Chinese under-19 internationals have been banned from playing for six months and forced to write self-criticism essays after flouting COVID-19 prevention rules to go drinking late at night. The Chinese Football Association (CFA) suspended the six until the end of November and the players were hit with additional […]
WASHINGTON: The police department in the US city of Minneapolis will be dismantled and rebuilt, city councilors said late Sunday (Jun 7) after the death in custody of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests about racism in law enforcement. “We committed to dismantling policing as we know it in the city […]
SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) said on Monday (Jun 8) that it had secured about US$1 billion in credit facilities, in addition to the S$8.8 billion it recently raised from a rights issue, to help it weather the COVID-19 pandemic. Global airlines have taken a huge blow as curbs imposed to […]
LONDON: British protesters tore down the statue of a renowned slave trader on Sunday (Jun 7) and threw it in the harbour on the second day of weekend protests against George Floyd’s death. Footage shot by a witness showed a few dozen people tie a rope around the neck of […]
BANGKOK: Last month, a grandmother reported to the police that her 14-year-old granddaughter had been raped over the course of more than a year. The attacks, according to the child, happened several times at her school in northeastern Thailand, where she was reportedly abused by five teachers and two male […]
MADRID: Calling for racial justice, protesters rallied across Europe on Sunday (Jun 7), joining a wave of demonstrations sparked by the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of US police. A video of the incident with Floyd pleading for his life in Minneapolis as a white police […]
On Friday, Nihal Sarin took on Magnus Carlsen in a series of one-minute chess shootouts. At the end of these “bullet games”, the score read: Carlsen 19, Sarin 13. A 16-year-old Indian Grandmaster is giving a Norwegian four-time World Champion a run for his reputation — online. On Friday, Nihal […]
As the original epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak, China was the first to impose a strict lockdown on millions of its residents. Business is almost as usual for some companies now – albeit with precationary measures to prevent new infections. Money Mind reports. SINGAPORE: Around the world, many countries are […]
SANTIAGO: Chile revised its death toll linked to the novel coronavirus outbreak sharply higher on Sunday (Jun 7), adding fatalities from databases that previously had not been included. Health Minister Jaime Manalich said 653 additional deaths linked to COVID-19 had to be counted, bringing the total number to 2,290. That […]