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[ad_1] MOSCOW: Russia said on Monday (December 28) that its death toll from COVID-19 was more than three times higher than it had previously reported, making it the country with the third highest death toll. For months, President Vladimir Putin has bragged about Russia’s low death rate from the virus, …

[ad_1] At the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, when countries were faced with the rapid spread of Covid-19, China sent boxes upon boxes of masks and other protective equipment abroad. These items arrived in various countries with stickers of the Chinese flag, in a display of what has been called …

[ad_1] Mon, December 28, 2020 – 2:18 pm [HONG KONG] Alibaba Group Holding led a sell-off by Chinese tech giants sparked by fears that antitrust scrutiny would spread beyond Jack Ma’s internet empire and ensnare more of the country’s most powerful corporations. China’s e-commerce leader on Monday raised a proposed …

[ad_1] MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told the United States on Saturday that he would go ahead with his plan to terminate the 1998 Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) unless he could provide vaccines to the coronavirus-ravaged country. Duterte ordered the termination of the VFA earlier this year, but suspended the …

[ad_1] SHANGHAI (REUTERS) – A Chinese court on Monday (December 28) handed a four-year jail sentence to a citizen journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year’s coronavirus outbreak, on the grounds of ” causing fights and causing problems, ”said his lawyer. Zhang …

[ad_1] TC Candler is currently feeling the ire of K-pop fans around the world. The reason is? He made a joke about BLACKPINK’s Jisoo (김지수) on their list of the “100 Most Beautiful Faces of 2020.” In case you didn’t know, the 25-year-old singer was placed at No. 50 on …

[ad_1] Mon, December 28, 2020 – 1:31 PM [SEOUL] Three years ago, Suh Kyung-bae was the second richest person in South Korea. Today it’s just barely in the Top 10, a sea change from the Korean beauty boom known for minting billionaires, not breaking them. Suh’s $ 3.6 billion fortune, …

[ad_1] HELSINKI (BLOOMBERG) – In cold and dark Finland, amid the pandemic, workers at the Meyer Turku shipyard were hard at work putting a roller coaster on top of a cruise ship, a world first. Others were setting up a brewery that could produce craft beers from filtered seawater, aimed …

[ad_1] JAKARTA (REUTERS) – International visitors will not be allowed to enter Indonesia for a period of two weeks, in an attempt to stop the spread of a potentially more contagious new strain of the coronavirus, its foreign minister said on Monday (December 28). , Retno Marsudi. . The new …

[ad_1] Former Mediacorp actor Zhang Zhenhuan posted the first photos of his son on Instagram yesterday (December 27), following the surprise announcement of his wife Sally Pan’s pregnancy last month. Pan also uploaded several photos of the baby, showing him at birth and also in his own solo photoshoot. While …