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Wed, May 25, 2022 | 12:01

Coronavirus vaccines: Signs of weaker response to new strains in South Africa, Brazil

Coronavirus variants emerging from the southern hemisphere can weaken the most powerful vaccines but people should still have the shots to guard against severe disease, according to researchers. In a non-peer-reviewed study published last week, a team in Boston found a drop in the amount of the mutated South Africa strain neutralised by antibodies induced by the Pfizer-BioNTe...

2021-02-22 13:16

Michelle Wie leads golf fury at Giuliani's 'panties' story

Star golfer Michelle Wie West blasted former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani after he told a story about her underwear on a recent podcast appearance. While not referencing Donald Trump's former lawyer by name, Wie West's Twitter response to an "unsettling" and "highly inappropriate story" followed Giuliani's appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast on Thursday.

2021-02-22 11:03

Pandemic adds to woes of Hong Kong's ethnic minority residents facing discrimination

Hongkonger and Nepali Dilip Rai, 42, stops to catch his breath as he climbs the stairs to his fourth-floor flat in an old tenement building in Jordan. The security guard lives with his wife, also 42, and their nine-year-old son in one bedroom of the flat, while his cousin, 42, and her husband, 52, share the other room.

2021-02-21 10:44

China's carbon neutral push gathers pace as coal-fired power plants drop below 50 percent for first time

China's coal-fired power plants fell to less than 50 percent of its total power generation mix for the first time last year, while separately, power generated from non-fossil fuels rose to make up more than a third of the country's power output, according to a new report.

2021-02-20 20:15

Surge in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese students applying to UK schools driven by passport scheme and US-China relations

The number of students from Hong Kong and mainland China applying for British universities rose to its highest in more than a decade, after rising by about 10 and 20 per cent year on year respectively, according to official statistics. Analysts believe a spike of Hong Kong applicants was mainly because of a new visa for residents holding British National (Overseas) passports ...

2021-02-18 13:10

Nikki Han, 50, becomes only woman to finish Hong Kong's 'brutal' 298km trails - twice

Nikki Han dragged herself to the end of the Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge for a second time, the only woman to finish once, let alone twice. But unlike 2019, this 298km run was "brutal." "I've had a good one, then this one. I had to give every last little drop of blood I had to get through. Racing wise, the hardest thing I've ever done," she said.

2021-02-15 16:00

Coronavirus: More China vaccines out for delivery as world scrambles for shots

As health authorities around the world scramble for supplies, three more countries have said they are expecting deliveries of Chinese coronavirus vaccines this month.

2021-02-13 13:10

China's coronavirus fears curb migrant worker travel over Lunar New Year

More than 100 million Chinese migrant workers will drop the decades-long tradition of returning home for the Lunar New Year holiday this year and instead stay in big cities and manufacturing hubs.

2021-02-11 15:46

US will not accept WHO's findings out of Wuhan investigation

The United States will not accept World Health Organization (WHO) findings coming out of its coronavirus investigation in Wuhan, China without independently verifying the findings using its own intelligence and conferring with allies, a State Department official said Tuesday. Spokesman Ned Price added that a full and complete accounting by the WHO and China detailing how the ...

2021-02-10 09:31

US State Department website accidentally shows Trump's term ending early

The profile pages for President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence on the US State Department's website were briefly updated on Monday to say that their terms were ending on January 11, nine days ahead of schedule, in an apparent hack.

2021-01-12 16:39

House speeding to impeach Trump for Capitol 'insurrection'

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