Australia is on track to meet just two of its targets aimed at improving the lives of its Indigenous people, including increasing life expectancy and improving literacy, Prime Minister Scott Morrison ...More
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... ned, said two people aware of the matter. They said the company had hoped to value itself at more than US$500 million. The sale of the company, partly owned by a unit of Singapore state investor Temas ...More
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... there are two points to bear in mind. First, China has quite a few local electric vehicle producers competing with the US electric car brand. Second, as a luxury item, the auto industry is highly sens ...More
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... During a two-week trial in December, T-Mobile and Sprint argued the merger will better equip the new company to compete with top players Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. as the third-lar ...More
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... country, two systems”. In particular, Ho and his administration have completely outdone Lam and her government in securing the supply of masks for the general public. A Hong Kong government spokesman ...More
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... 008, have two children, Savannah, 9, and Isla, 7. Buckingham Palace said it had no comment as it was a private matter. Phillips, 42, son of Elizabeth’s daughter Princess Anne and 15th-in-line to the t ...More
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At least two banks in Hong Kong have introduced relief measures for home mortgage borrowers hurt by the coronavirus outbreak, in a move analysts say could help lower foreclosures in an economy already ...More
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... uding the two households with the confirmed patients. So far 23 households had left their residences, Chan added. The partial evacuation at Hong Mei House was a “precautionary measure for the safety o ...More
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Police are looking for two people who disobeyed the government's quarantine regulations and went incommunicado, a development that points to the difficulties involved in tightly enforcing the rules th ...More
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A Chinese media company said it will lay off 500 employees due to the coronavirus outbreak, the latest among a string of firms to do so in the past two weeks as the epidemic takes a toll on small-to-m ...More
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... its stock two years ago, Reuters reports. The move to merge the two units come as global automakers pursue alliances to respond better to the cost of switching to electric cars, tougher emission rules ...More
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... at one or two of the three Hong Kong Disneyland Hotels may be considered for the purpose. They pointed out that the idea has solid merits. First, as the Disneyland Hotels are not far away from to the ...More
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... home for two weeks, they finally decide to get some fresh air. Ah, the young and the restless. The bank said it would issue warning letters to the sixsome, and require them to inform the office of wh ...More
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... ng one or two weeks as Hubei, where the outbreak started, imposed quarantine since the beginning of this month. Hopefully, as the number of newly confirmed cases starts to come down, economic activiti ...More
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... at least two arenas for potential miscalculation, either in China’s broader geopolitical ambitions or in the management of the domestic financial system. For the US-Chinese trade de-escalation to hol ...More
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More than 300 Chinese companies are seeking bank loans totaling at least 57.4 billion yuan (US$8.2 billion) to help to soften the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters reports, citing two bankin ...More
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A week ago, only two laboratories in Africa could diagnose the novel coronavirus that originated in China and is rapidly spreading around the world. As of Sunday, the World Health Organization (WHO) e ...More
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... ntine for two weeks upon arriving in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Feb. 3, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong was diagnosed with the virus. About 3,700 people are aboard the ship, which usually h ...More
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(First of a two-part series) The coronavirus outbreak has sparked panic-buying in Hong Kong, with residents snapping up all the surgical masks they could find as well as daily necessities such as rice ...More
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... r men and two women, aged 26 to 57, were arrested on charges of obstructing a police officer in execution of duty or for loitering. Zoe Leung Hin-yan, a member of the Sai Kung District Council, later ...More
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