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Opium farming takes root in Myanmar's war-wracked landscape
AFP, Published on 10/03/2025
» PEKON, Myanmar - Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict.
Hong Kong flooded by heaviest rainfall in 140 years
AFP, Published on 08/09/2023
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong was flooded by the heaviest rainfall in nearly 140 years on Friday, leaving the city's streets and some subway stations under water and forcing its schools to close.
Markets rattled by fears of fresh Covid curbs in China
AFP, Published on 21/11/2022
» LONDON: Asian and European stocks mostly fell Monday, with investor sentiment hit by renewed Covid concerns in China amid warnings that markets would remain lacklustre for some time.
China detects more Omicron cases as cities tighten restrictions
AFP, Published on 10/01/2022
» BEIJING: China reported more cases of the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant on Monday, with authorities on high alert over flare-ups in major cities just weeks ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Third pandemic wave hits as Brazil surpasses half million covid deaths
AFP, Published on 20/06/2021
» RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil on Saturday became the second country after the United States to surpass 500,000 Covid-19 deaths as the South American giant grapples with a third wave of the pandemic.
Most Asia markets, dollar rise as Biden pledges huge stimulus
AFP, Published on 11/01/2021
» Asian markets mostly rose with the dollar Monday following another record performance on Wall Street as investors cheered the prospect of a further massive stimulus for the US economy, with President-elect Joe Biden calling for a spending spree in the trillions of dollars.
US sees surprise unemployment rate fall to 6.9% in October
AFP, Published on 06/11/2020
» WASHINGTON: The US unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to 6.9% in October -- a decline of a full point ahead of the presidential election, but the economy is far from healed and rising coronavirus cases could undo the progress.
WHO warns of 'accelerating' pandemic
AFP, Published on 22/06/2020
» DUBAI: The World Health Organization sent out a fresh warning on Monday over the dangers of the new coronavirus even as France returned to life by staging an annual music festival and sending millions of children back to school.
Stocks rise as reopening, easing China-US tensions trump bad data
AFP, Published on 08/05/2020
» HONG KONG: Moves to ease lockdown measures and reopen economies around the world fired equity markets on Friday as investors looked past a string of depressing data suggesting the planet is heading for its worst downturn since the Great Depression.
Stocks enjoy further gains as virus restrictions are eased
AFP, Published on 06/05/2020
» HONG KONG: Most equities rose again on Wednesday as investors grew increasingly, but cautiously, hopeful that the worst of the coronavirus had passed and as countries begin to slowly open up from lockdown.