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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing and Trade Ministers of Australia, Canada, South Korea and New Zealand agreed to facilitate resumption of essential cross-border travel while balancing public health considerations between of the Covid-19 pandemic. Guidelines will be established to facilitate such travel, which should be …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR – Almost all of Malaysia’s economic sectors will reopen starting Monday (May 4) but must meet strict conditions, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Friday (May 1), as the country relaxes its movement brakes after more than six weeks of a partial block to stop the spread …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump said Thursday (April 30) that his trade deal with China was now of secondary importance to the coronavirus pandemic and threatened new tariffs in Beijing, as his administration worked out measures to retaliation for the outbreak. Trump’s heightened rhetoric against China reflected his …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AFP) – United States President Donald Trump threatened China on Thursday (April 30) with new tariffs as he intensified his attacks on Beijing due to the coronavirus crisis, saying he had seen evidence linking a Wuhan lab with contagion. The Republican incumbent’s tirade came as data showed the …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs against Beijing on Thursday (April 30) after claiming there is evidence linking the coronavirus to a laboratory in Wuhan City, China’s ground zero. When asked if he had seen anything that gave him a high degree of confidence that the Wuhan …

[ad_1] BERLIN: On a sunny Sunday in April, 20 people were enjoying a barbecue in the city of Schwerin in northern Germany. The police immediately intervened and fined them for breaking the new social distancing rules to limit the spread of COVID-19. Ad Ad READ: German spread of COVID-19 worsens …

[ad_1] MOSCOW: Russia’s national count of confirmed cases of coronavirus increased on Thursday (April 30) after a record increase in new infections, days after President Vladimir Putin warned that the peak of the outbreak was yet to come. Russia, the world’s largest country by territory, has been blocked since Putin …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) – The nation’s top infectious disease expert said Thursday that new cases of coronavirus are a certainty as states begin to tighten restrictions. States must proceed with caution as they take steps to reopen businesses and allow greater freedom of movement, said Dr. Anthony Fauci. Trump presented …

[ad_1] BANDUNG, Indonesia: Thousands of animals, including endangered Sumatran tigers and Borneo orangutans, face famine in Indonesian zoos as the global pandemic pushes closed facilities toward collapse, authorities say. Around 60 penniless animal parks, home to roughly 70,000 creatures, across the Southeast Asian archipelago have been closed since mid-March, with …

[ad_1] Being locked up at home during the coronavirus lockdown turned out to be too much for a British man. While arguing with his wife, Dave Mitchell, 46, threw her from the balcony of his eighth-floor condo in Rayong, Thailand, on April 28. He survived the fall after landing on …