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Zero-Covid hurts 75% of European firms in China
AFP, Published on 21/09/2022
» BEIJING: China's "inflexible" and "inconsistent" zero-Covid policy is crippling European business operations in the country, a major business lobby said Wednesday, warning that the presence of the companies "can no longer be taken for granted".
BGRIM chief handed award by Vietnam
Business, Published on 20/09/2022
» Harald Link, chairman of B.Grimm and president of B.Grimm Power Plc (BGRIM), was recently awarded the "Certificate of Merit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam".
China says no touching foreigners skin-to-skin after monkeypox case
Published on 19/09/2022
» A top Chinese health official warned people against having skin-to-skin contact with foreigners to avoid contracting monkeypox, spurring a backlash among the country’s dwindling expatriate community.
China lifts weeks-long lockdown on southwest megacity Chengdu
AFP, Published on 19/09/2022
» BEIJING: Millions of people in the Chinese megacity of Chengdu emerged Monday from a Covid-19 lockdown that had closed schools, disrupted businesses and forced residents to stay home for over two weeks.
Boost pandemic preparedness
News, Mariana Mazzucato, Published on 19/09/2022
» The pandemic is not over. While the summer of this year is very different from the summer of 2020, because we now have vaccines, treatments, and a better understanding of the virus, it's not enough. Every week, 15,000 people still die from Covid-19. Poorer countries still struggle to deploy vaccines, tests, diagnostics and other tools. And countries at all income levels remain woefully unprepared for the next pandemic, even though experts warn that its arrival is a matter of "when", not "if".
27 people killed in China quarantine bus crash
AFP, Published on 18/09/2022
» BEIJING: Twenty-seven people died en route to a Covid-19 quarantine facility when their bus crashed in southwest China on Sunday, local authorities said, in the country's deadliest road accident this year.
Hong Kong may announce end of hotel quarantine this week, report says
Published on 18/09/2022
» Hong Kong could detail plans to end hotel quarantine for inbound travellers in a move designed to trumpet the financial hub’s revival, the Oriental Daily reported.
Apocalypse may be just around the corner
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/09/2022
» Which would be worse: a global nuclear war with all buttons pressed, or real, self-conscious artificial intelligence that goes rogue? You know, the central theme of the Terminator movies.
Geoeconomics of the US-China tech war
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 16/09/2022
» Chinese President Xi Jinping's arrival in Central Asia this week in his first overseas travel in nearly three years is perhaps the most consequential irony of the coronavirus pandemic. As the place where the deadly pandemic began in early 2020, China was the first to swiftly and successfully suppress and contain Covid-19 within weeks, while its counterparts in North America and Europe languished for months under mounting death tolls and hospitalisations.
End of Covid pandemic in sight: WHO
AFP, Published on 15/09/2022
» GENEVA - The number of newly reported Covid-19 cases has dropped dramatically, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, urging the world to seize the opportunity to end the pandemic.