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France braces for nationwide strike amid fuel shortage tensions
AFP, Published on 17/10/2022
» PARIS: France on Monday braced for nationwide transport strike actions as the government and unions remained in deadlock over stoppages at oil depots that have sparked fuel shortages.
Singapore debate on LGBTQI+ rights heats up in test for leaders
Bloomberg News, Published on 27/08/2022
» In the wake of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Aug 21 pledge to protect the nation’s definition of marriage, which excludes same-sex unions, in the Constitution, the government quickly mobilised top ministers to try to calm a storm brewing between the LGBTQI+ community and some religious groups.
'Hopeless': Chinese homebuyers run out of patience with developers
AFP, Published on 12/08/2022
» BEIJING - Newly married and with his first child on the way, auto worker Wang wanted to move into the apartment he bought in Wuhan three years ago but those hopes were dashed by China's ballooning property crisis.
Ecuador president faces ouster vote on 13th day of fuel price protests
AFP, Published on 26/06/2022
» QUITO - Ecuador's president will face a no confidence vote Saturday, nearly two weeks into sometimes violent countrywide protests led by Indigenous groups against rising fuel prices and living costs.
Vienna returns as world's 'most liveable city'
AFP, Published on 23/06/2022
» PARIS: The Austrian capital Vienna has made a comeback as the world's most liveable city, according to an annual report from the Economist published Thursday.
Shanghai reports first Covid deaths since start of lockdown
AFP, Published on 18/04/2022
» SHANGHAI: China said Monday that just three people have died from Covid-19 in Shanghai since a gruelling lockdown began last month, despite recording hundreds of thousands of cases of the fast-spreading Omicron variant in the eastern megacity.
Hong Kong and Singapore virus response a tale of two very different cities
AFP, Published on 25/02/2022
» HONG KONG - Rivals Singapore and Hong Kong have become pandemic polar opposites, the former opting to live with the coronavirus and reopen to the world while the latter doubles down on zero-Covid and its international isolation.
Virus-hit Hong Kong invokes emergency powers to allow in China medics
AFP, Published on 24/02/2022
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong's government invoked emergency powers on Thursday to allow doctors and nurses from the Chinese mainland to work in the territory to help combat a spiralling coronavirus outbreak.
Hong Kong plans mandatory Covid tests
Published on 18/02/2022
» Hong Kong is making plans to test every one of its 7.3 million residents for Covid-19 as a surge in Omicron cases threatens to overwhelm its healthcare system.
'Battlefield mode': Hong Kong hospitals buckle under Omicron wave
AFP, Published on 17/02/2022
» HONG KONG: Huddled under blankets and thermal shields, dozens of elderly patients shivered on gurneys outside a hospital serving one of Hong Kong's poorest communities -- a grim tableau for the city as its health system buckles under an Omicron-fuelled coronavirus wave.