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Sun, April 5, 2020 | 01:24

Coronavirus: How North Korean factories could benefit as the rest of the world goes into lockdown

Coronavirus: How North Korean factories could benefit as the rest of the world goes into lockdown

It should be one of the most heavily affected countries on earth, sitting in the red zone between South Korea and China. Yet North Korea claims not to have a single case of the coronavirus. While that is unlikely to be true - US intelligence is “fairly certain” there are at least a few, because of a notable lack of military activity in Pyongyang - North Korean factories could...

2020-04-01 13:23

Hong Kong home prices record biggest drop in 15 months amid COVID-19 pandemic

Hong Kong home prices record biggest drop in 15 months amid COVID-19 pandemic

Hong Kong home prices recorded their steepest drop in 15 months in February, and are expected to decline by up to 20 per cent from a peak in June 2019 by year-end amid the coronavirus pandemic. An index of used home prices dropped 2.1 per cent last month, according to the city's Rating and Valuation Department, its biggest monthly drop since December 2018. The decline also ex...

2020-04-01 13:18

Coronavirus: social distancing could save millions of lives, study says

Coronavirus: social distancing could save millions of lives, study says

The Covid-19 pandemic could kill as many as 20 million people worldwide this year even if people take steps to reduce their social contacts, according to a mathematical model developed by researchers at Imperial College in London.

2020-03-31 14:38

China manufacturing economy bounces back strongly after lockdown

China manufacturing economy bounces back strongly after lockdown

China's manufacturing engine bounced back strongly in March, recovering from a miserable February, when the country was effectively shut down due to coronavirus.

2020-03-31 13:09

EU fires warning shot at China in coronavirus battle of the narratives

EU fires warning shot at China in coronavirus battle of the narratives

The European Union's top diplomat has fired a warning shot at China's “politics of generosity,” amid a growing sense of unease over Beijing's targeted strategy to help certain European countries with medical supplies to fight Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. In an unusual choice of language, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called on EU countr...

2020-03-28 14:21

Chinese banks brace for bad debt blowout as COVID-19 pandemic piles weight on to debt-ridden businesses

Chinese banks brace for bad debt blowout as COVID-19 pandemic piles weight on to debt-ridden businesses

Three leading Chinese state-owned banks reported that their non-performing loan ratios had stayed largely stable in 2019 even as the economy slowed amid a trade war with the US. But bank officials and analysts expect their asset quality to worsen this year as the coronavirus strains the financial health of their borrowers.

2020-03-28 14:21

Coronavirus: final testing of Hong Kong dog's blood concludes it was infected

Coronavirus: final testing of Hong Kong dog's blood concludes it was infected

Final testing has confirmed that the 17-year-old Pomeranian revealed as the first dog to catch the coronavirus was infected, Hong Kong's animal welfare authority said, after antibodies were found in the animal's blood. Despite the conclusive positive reading, an Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) spokesman stressed that cases of infection in dogs appear...

2020-03-27 14:02

Madrid ditches 'unreliable' Chinese COVID-19 test kits

Madrid ditches 'unreliable' Chinese COVID-19 test kits

Spain's capital has stopped using a rapid Covid-19 test kit made by a Chinese company after research suggested it was not accurate enough. Doubts over the kits' reliability emerged as the number of cases in Spain rose sharply on Thursday to 56,188 confirmed cases and 4,089 deaths. Worldwide, the disease has now infected more than 468,000 and killed over 21,000. The Spanish So...

2020-03-27 13:57

Up to 10% of recovered coronavirus patients in Wuhan study tested positive later, doctors say

Up to 10% of recovered coronavirus patients in Wuhan study tested positive later, doctors say

Researchers around the world are trying to determine whether recovered patients can still infect people with the coronavirus that causes the disease and if they have developed antibodies offering them immunity to the disease.

2020-03-26 14:57

G20 virtual summit: 'Global cooperation key to fight COVID-19'

Online game players were top target for scammers during China's coronavirus lockdown

Online game players were top target for scammers during China's coronavirus lockdown

China's gamers were the largest group of victims amid a spike in internet scams during the country's coronavirus outbreak as millions of quarantined people turned to online games to alleviate boredom.

2020-03-25 16:36

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