A week after it decided not to declare the coronavirus epidemic in China a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization’s emergency committee met again on Jan. 30 an ...More
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... o the same. Unfortunately, much to their disappointment, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor rejected outright the idea of completely closing the border with the mainland and denying entry to m ...More
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A microbiology expert expressed worries that 2019-nCoV, the new strain of coronavirus that is ravaging central China's Hubei province, may have begun to spread in Hong Kong. In a radio program on Sund ...More
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... rs reports. GSK will make its “adjuvant platform technology” available for developing a vaccine against the 2019-nCoV virus, according to a statement from GSK and CEPI. The use of adjuvant allows for ...More
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Twitter Inc. has banned financial market website Zero Hedge from the social media platform after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the outbreak of the fast-spreading coronavirus l ...More
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... rs reports. Airline officials said on Sunday the new rules will mean they must now ask all US-bound passengers if they have visited mainland China. Airlines are expected to scrutinize passports of tra ...More
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... -poon said. “As [the economy] enters 2020, it has not shaken off the risk of continued decline, but has encountered the threat of a new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, which will definitely cause a do ...More
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... rs reports. Sudesh Amman, 20, who was jailed in 2018 for “Islamist-related terrorism offenses”, was being tracked by police on foot at the time of attack, which sent people running into nearby shops a ...More
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China’s central bank is injecting 1.2 trillion yuan (US$174 billion) worth of liquidity into the markets via reverse repo operations on Monday amid an outbreak of a new coronavirus, Reuters reports. A ...More
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... he country. In its biggest shift since losing its global empire, the United Kingdom slipped away at 2300 GMT, turning its back after 47 years on the post-World War Two project that sought to build the ...More
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Libra, Facebook’s digital currency initiative, has been faltering since late last year as partners started backing out after regulators opposed the plan. In a post-earnings conference call this week, ...More
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... 200 people. The Yangtze marks the dividing line between Jiujiang in Jiangxi province and Huanggang in neighboring Hubei, one of the cities hit hardest by the coronavirus outbreak and now sealed off fr ...More
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Amid the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, cinemas across China have been shut down to help contain the spread of the disease. Leading film studios in the country were thus forced to cancel the holiday rele ...More
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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 200 people in China a global emergency, as cases spread to at least 18 countries, Reuters reports. China ...More
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Amazon.com Inc. posted holiday quarter results well above expectations as the expansion of its one-day shipping program came under budget and membership in its Prime loyalty club notched a 50 percent ...More
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... e services. The Payment Services Act, passed in January last year, came into force on Tuesday. With the new act, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched the first formal comprehensive s ...More
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The California Institute of Technology said it won a US$1.1 billion jury verdict in a patent case against Apple and Broadcom, Reuters reports. In a case filed in federal court in Los Angeles in 2016, ...More
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At the stroke of midnight in Brussels on Friday, Britain will leave the European Union and Prime Minister Boris Johnson will deliver on his election promise to “Get Brexit Done”. But he won’t have lon ...More
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According to figures recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China's population exceeded 1.4 billion in 2019. However, the number of newborns recorded last year only stood at 14. ...More
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