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[ad_1] South China morning post Hong Kong shares end the week lower after SMIC and CNOOC fell after the US blacklist. Hong Kong shares ended the week lower after the Trump administration added four more Chinese companies, including SMIC and CNOOC, to a blacklist on Thursday. China stocks, on the …

[ad_1] DUBAI: South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha on Saturday (December 5) questioned North Korea’s claim that it has no coronavirus cases, while offering the South’s help to fight the pandemic. In an unusually clear official statement, Kang told the annual IISS Manama Dialogue security conference that Pyongyang has not …

[ad_1] JEUMONT, France: Since the COVID-19 outbreak, French nursing home resident Colette Dupas’s contact with her daughters has been limited to talking via video call or through a window. Now the 97-year-old has been able to feel his touch, thanks to an inflatable tunnel and two plastic covers. Ad Ad …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will allow movement between states and districts across the country starting Monday (December 7) without the need for a police permit, except in areas under a blockade known as the Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO). “The police will also remove obstacles from December 7, but will …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The Thai Tais and their young male instructors move, maskless and together, their dance club is a delightful pastime from a world ravaged by a pandemic. No one suspected that some of them had caught, and were spreading, the deadly Covid-19. Now, Hong Kong is paying for …

[ad_1] MOSCOW: Moscow began distributing the Sputnik V COVID-19 injection through 70 clinics on Saturday (December 5), marking Russia’s first mass vaccination against the disease, the city’s coronavirus task force said. The task force said the Russian-made vaccine would first be made available to doctors and other medical workers, teachers …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia will lift movement restrictions for most states starting Monday (December 7), a cabinet minister announced on Saturday. But the partial closures, called a Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO), will run until December 20 for its capital city, Kuala Lumpur, Sabah state and six of Selangor’s …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) will prioritize cargo capacity to transport COVID-19 vaccines when they become available, the national carrier said on Saturday (December 5). It will prepare seven Boeing 47-400 freighters for such operations, SIA said in a press release, adding that passenger jets will also be deployed where …

[ad_1] Less than a month to go until January’s transfer market, giving an injured Liverpool a chance to get stronger. Jurgen Klopp’s team has been plagued by a number of fitness issues over the past three months, with long-term injuries to Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez that have pushed …

[ad_1] A woman from Adelaide, South Australia, got herself an early Christmas present this year. Amanda McCormick came home on Wednesday (December 2) to see an adorable koala hanging from the Christmas tree in her living room, chewing on some (plastic) leaves. “Hello honey, what are you doing in the …