All posts tagged "News"
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0Asia Pacific NewsThe US Speaker of the House is Coming to Asia. What Happens if She Visits Taiwan?
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is including Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea on her trip to Asia, but the question on everyone’s mind...
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0HealthCovid Isn’t Over: What You Need to Know about the Latest Variants
The newest Covid strains are actually subvariants of Omicron, but BA.5 and closely related BA.4 are even more highly infectious and are...
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0Asia Pacific NewsWhy Won’t China Give Up on Its ‘Zero-Covid’ Strategy?
It’s a failed approach that has virtually no chance of working in the long term, but Beijing seems to have no intention...
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0Local NewsKuala Lumpur Rocked by Large Explosion
It certainly wasn’t Beirut, but a series of blasts and subsequent fire at a Sentul evidence disposal depot nevertheless resulted in several...
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0Local NewsMalaysia’s Growing MySejahtera Scandal: Who Really Owns and Controls the App?
The contract tracing app has attracted its fair share of controversy from the beginning. New revelations are now threatening to plunge the...
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0HealthYes, Omicron Can Boost Immunity, but Early Hopes that the Variant Will End the Pandemic Are Fading
Omicron’s high transmissibility, coupled with vastly different rates of vaccination worldwide and a wide range of varying strategies have made the pandemic’s...
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0HealthIs Omicron Our Way Out of the Pandemic?
Ultra-transmissible, but causing less severe symptoms, Covid’s Omicron variant might just provide humanity a pathway out of a global pandemic that’s now...
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0NewsHow Will Omicron Change the Course of the Pandemic?
Over a dozen variants into the coronavirus, we’re all getting acquainted with the Greek alphabet in a way we’d rather not. Now...
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0NewsWill the Latest Covid Variant Mean a Third Year of Pandemic Fears?
Countries worldwide are racing to put a stop to the worrying Omicron variant before it even starts. Here’s what you need to...
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0NewsThe Delta Dilemma: Your Questions Answered
The Delta variant is stronger, more formidable, and far more contagious than any strain of Covid we’ve yet encountered – and it’s...
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0SportTokyo 2020 Imposes First-Ever Spectator Ban at the Olympics
Just two weeks before the Games’ opening ceremony, Japanese officials have announced a total ban of fans and spectators at all Tokyo...
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0NewsMalaysia Craters to Near-Bottom in Bloomberg’s Monthly Covid Resilience Ranking
In Malaysia, June brought a month-long lockdown, eroding quality of life, and very little progress being made in the reopening process, setting...
