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Chinese students fleeing virus face uneasy reception back home

Human-to-human transmission confirmed in China coronavirus

9:43 pm January 20, 2020

Beijing: The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus. Team leader Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory expert, said two people in Guangdong province in southern China caught the disease from family members, state media said. The National Health Commission task force […]

Malaysia sends back trash, says won’t be world’s waste bin

3:08 pm January 20, 2020

Penang (Malaysia): Malaysia has sent back 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 mainly rich countries since the third quarter last year, with the environment minster warning on Monday that those who want to make the country a rubbish bin of the world can “dream on”. Shipments of unwanted rubbish have been rerouted to Southeast […]

China and Myanmar ‘stand together’ despite Rohingya backlash

3:22 pm January 18, 2020

Naypyidaw (Myanmar): China and Myanmar are set to ink mammoth infrastructure deals following a meeting on Saturday between President Xi Jinping and fallen rights icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who pledged to stand with Beijing “till the end of the world”. The Chinese leader’s two-day state visit to Myanmar’s purpose-built capital comes as Western investors […]

‘Hundreds’ likely affected by Chinese virus: researchers

11:40 am January 18, 2020

London: The number of people infected by a mystery SARS-like virus that has killed two people in China is likely hundreds more than officially reported, researchers have said. Chinese authorities have said pneumonia linked to the virus has hit at least 41 people in the country, with the outbreak centred around a seafood market in […]

Stock indexes edge lower, pulling S&P 500 below record high

US stock indexes rally following solid retail sales report

9:44 pm January 16, 2020

NEW YORK: Stocks rallied on Wall Street in early trading as a solid retail sales report injected more optimism into markets following the signing of an initial trade deal between the US and China. Consumers have been the backbone of economic growth and the government’s December report on retail sales showed that they continued spending […]