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Hong Kong cancels trading as typhoon nears
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/07/2023
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong cancelled trading on the city’s $5.2 trillion stock market on Monday because of typhoon Talim.
Bali seeks new kind of tourist after kicking out 136 unruly visitors this year
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/06/2023
» Indonesia’s paradise island teeming with beaches and lush rice fields wants to refocus its tourism away from guests who tend to misbehave and instead lure talented nomads, retirees and health buffs.
Hong Kong’s ban on CBD products leaves companies facing ruin
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/08/2022
» As Hong Kong takes its first steps towards cracking down on cannabidiol, businesses specialising in CBD-infused beers, coffees and other products are scrambling to work out what comes next.
Omicron found in 2 people with booster shots
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/12/2021
» Two Singapore residents may have caught the Omicron variant even after receiving Covid-19 booster shots, in cases which may shed light on the protection offered by a third dose of vaccine.
New Suvarnabhumi airport terminal to become Covid hospital
Bloomberg News, Published on 07/07/2021
» Authorities plan to convert a terminal at the main international airport into a field hospital as a surge in coronavirus infections that’s straining the public health system shows little sign of easing.
Stark differences among SE Asia’s vaccination strategies
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/02/2021
» Moderna Inc won approval from Singapore for its Covid vaccine and signed a deal to sell doses to the Philippines, becoming the fourth supplier to get regulatory clearance in Southeast Asia.
Why Covid may be more life-threatening for some patients
Bloomberg News, Published on 25/09/2020
» NEW YORK: When two brothers fell critically ill with Covid-19 around the same time in March, their doctors were baffled. Both were young -- 29 and 31 years old -- and healthy. Yet within days they could not breathe on their own and, tragically, one of them died.
Airports deploy rapid virus tests, sniffer dogs to unlock travel
Bloomberg News, Published on 24/09/2020
» LONDON: A handful of European airports are implementing trials of quick-fire coronavirus tests, working with airlines to push technologies still being developed as a way to revive stunted international air travel.
Singapore’s poorest stay in lockdown as others move freely
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/09/2020
» With restaurants and malls bustling, pre-pandemic life is slowly returning for people in Singapore -- except for the more than 300,000 migrant workers who make up much of the city’s low-wage workforce.
India Is becoming the world’s new virus epicentre
Bloomberg News, Published on 31/08/2020
» India is fast becoming the world’s new virus epicentre, setting a record for the biggest single-day rise in cases as experts predict that it’ll soon pass Brazil -- and ultimately the US -- as the worst outbreak globally.