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Hong Kong media tycoon held over assembly charges
Reuters, Published on 28/02/2020
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong police arrested publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai, an outspoken critic of Beijing, and two other pro-democracy activists on Friday on charges of illegal assembly, drawing condemnation from international rights groups.
S. Korea wages 'all-out responses' to virus with 586 new cases
Reuters, Published on 01/03/2020
» South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Sunday the government was waging "all-out responses" to contain the novel coronavirus as the country added 586 more cases, taking the total to 3,736.
UK steps up virus planning, may bring doctors out of retirement
Reuters, Published on 01/03/2020
» LONDON: Britain is planning for the global coronavirus epidemic to get worse, health minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday, describing the outbreak as a "very, very significant challenge".
Indonesia confirms first cases of coronavirus
Reuters, Published on 02/03/2020
» JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Monday two Indonesians had tested positive for coronavirus after being in contact with an infected Japanese national, marking the first confirmed cases in the world's fourth most populous country.
Tourist arrivals may drop 6 million this year due to virus: TAT
Reuters, Published on 02/03/2020
» The number of foreign tourists visiting Thailand may fall by 6 million this year to 33.8 million, the lowest in four years, due to growing fears over the coronavirus outbreak, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) said on Monday.
China reports lowest number of new virus cases since January
Reuters, Published on 03/03/2020
» BEIJING: Mainland China had 125 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Monday, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday, down from 202 cases a day earlier and the lowest since the authority started publishing nationwide data in January.
Questions emerge over trials in 1MDB scandal
Reuters, Published on 03/03/2020
» KUALA LUMPUR: Hours after Malaysia's change of leadership at the weekend, former prime minister Najib Razak posted a picture of himself smiling and giving a thumbs-up on social media.
Feb inflation slows, below forecast
Reuters, Published on 05/03/2020
» The headline consumer price index (CPI) in February rose 0.74% from a year earlier, slowing from the previous month and below expectations, commerce ministry data showed on Thursday.
Thailand begins disinfecting packages
Reuters, Published on 05/03/2020
» Postal services began disinfecting all packages received from overseas on Thursday to counter the spread of the coronavirus, although the World Health Organisation has said it is safe to receive post from badly affected countries, like China.
China's Hubei, excluding Wuhan, reports no new coronavirus cases
Reuters, Published on 06/03/2020
» BEIJING: China's central province of Hubei, excluding the provincial capital Wuhan, reported zero new cases of coronavirus over 24 hours for the first time during the outbreak, as authorities continued to contain imported infections in other parts of the country.