[ad_1] Sat, Oct 17, 2020 – 2:33 pm [SYDNEY] Low-cost, long-haul carrier AirAsia X Bhd has run out of money and needs to raise up to RM500 million (S $ 163.7 million) to restart the airline, Vice President Lim Kian Onn said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday . …
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[ad_1] By Sybille de La Hamaide and Thierry Chiarello PARIS / CONFLANS-SAINTE-HONORINE, France (Reuters) – The teenager who beheaded a teacher outside the school in a Paris suburb where he taught approached students on the street and asked them to point to his victim, the prosecutor anti-terrorist Jean-Francois Ricard said …
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[ad_1] NEW YORK: Tighter financial regulation is needed to prevent increased risk-taking and asset bubbles in markets at a time when the Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates low, said two senior Fed officials to the Financial Times in an article published on Saturday (October 17). Boston Fed Chairman Eric …
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[ad_1] KLANG and KUALA LUMPUR – Ahmad Hazriq Isa has spent the past seven days surviving on bread, instant noodles and cookies while looking for a new job. The 26-year-old was unemployed for the second time this year, just minutes after the Malaysian government announced on October 12 that it …
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[ad_1] Publication date: Saturday, October 17, 2020 8:11 AM City manager Pep Guardiola praised his team for their ‘important victory’ They beat Arsenal 1-0 at the Etihad. English striker Raheem Sterling was the winner of the match, as Arsenal failed to draw, despite pressure in the second half. With the …
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[ad_1] HONG KONG: Almost 15 years ago, Grace Ma decided to name her bar Club 71, in commemoration of a July 1, 2003 rally where hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers protested a proposed national security law for the semi-autonomous Chinese city. “I took the name of Club 71, because …
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[ad_1] BEIJING: China passed a new law to improve its handling of disease outbreaks, including whistleblower protection, following a cascade of criticism over its response to the coronavirus and allegations of an early cover-up. The new biosafety law, approved by legislators on Saturday (October 17), establishes the right to report …
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[ad_1] BANGKOK (REUTERS, AFP) – Thousands of Thai anti-government protesters took over key intersections in Bangkok on Sunday (October 18), defying the ban on protests for the fourth day with chants of “down with dictatorship” and “monarchy reform.” “ The demonstrations have persisted despite the arrest of dozens of protesters …
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[ad_1] A Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidate based on the inactivated whole SARS-CoV-2 virus is safe and elicits an antibody response, according to findings from a small early-phase randomized clinical trial published Thursday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. . The latest study included participants between the ages of 18 and 80 …
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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Malaysia Airlines’ parent company is still in negotiations with lessors and creditors on a restructuring plan to keep the airline afloat, but talks are taking “longer than expected,” according to a staff memo seen by Reuters. “Negotiations are still ongoing and taking longer than anticipated, but we are …
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