British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was taken to hospital on Sunday for tests, his office said, 10 days after he tested positive for coronavirus.Johnson, 55, announced he had mild symptoms of Covid-19 on March 27 and had been in self-isolation at his Downing Street residence for seven days.He had been expected to re-emerge on Friday…
Italy reported its lowest daily Covid-19 death toll for more than two weeks on Sunday as authorities began to look ahead to a second phase of the battle against the new coronavirus once the lockdown imposed almost a month ago is eventually eased.The toll from the world’s deadliest outbreak reached 15,887, almost a quarter of…
US Defence Secretary Mark Esper defended the Navy’s controversial decision to remove the commander of a coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier, who was reported on Sunday to have tested positive for Covid-19 as the number of its sailors with the highly contagious disease also grew.Captain Brett Crozier started showing symptoms of the virus before he was relieved…
US Defence Secretary Mark Esper defended the Navy’s controversial decision to remove the commander of a coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier, who was reported on Sunday to have tested positive for Covid-19 as the number of its sailors with the highly contagious disease also grew.Captain Brett Crozier started showing symptoms of the virus before he was relieved…
The death toll from the Covid-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 525 to 15,887, the lowest daily death toll in more than two weeks, while the number of patients in intensive care fell for the second day running, the Civil Protection department said on Sunday.The total number of confirmed cases rose to 128,948 from 124,632…
Him Law cracks jokes about Tony Hung being “too touchy on set”.
The popular “Three Lives, Three Worlds” may see a third installment.
The superstar is willing to lower his fees due to the slowdown in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
The former 1990s TVB actor is suspected of cheating with his younger subordinate.
The high-speed train whooshing past historic World War I battle sites and through the chateau-speckled Loire Valley carried a delicate cargo: 20 critically ill Covid-19 patients and the breathing machines helping keep them alive.The TGV-turned-mobile-intensive-care-unit is just one piece of France’s nationwide mobilisation of trains, helicopters, jets and even a warship, deployed to relieve congested…
It took Silvia Bertuletti 11 days of frantic phone calls to persuade a doctor to visit her 78-year-old father Alessandro, who was gripped by fever and struggling for breath.When an on-call doctor did go to her house near Bergamo, at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy, on the evening of March 18,…
Many of the minors arrested during anti-government protests were goaded into taking part by online messages and were actually victims of their own poor judgment, Hong Kong’s top police operations commander told the Post in an exclusive interview.But among the people who did deserve blame were politicians who had “exploited” youths for their own gain,…
Hong Kong may have to impose a wider lockdown and close all non-essential businesses for several weeks, a senior government adviser has said, amid warnings of a “third wave” of coronavirus infections by a top epidemiologist.Bernard Chan’s remark, aired on a prerecorded radio programme on Sunday, came as a mother of a six-week-old baby boy,…
US President Donald Trump told reporters on Saturday he “may” take the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, despite no evidence the drug is effective and safe for preventing or treating the coronavirus.He also suggested that his doctors have not yet prescribed him the drug, but said he would ask them about it.“If it were me – in…
US President Donald Trump told reporters on Saturday he “may” take the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, despite no evidence the drug is effective and safe for preventing or treating the coronavirus.He also suggested that his doctors have not yet prescribed him the drug, but said he would ask them about it.“If it were me – in…
Malaysia’s recent change of government has driven a whistle-blower from the Southeast Asian country to Switzerland, while Pascal Najadi, the son of murdered banker Hussain Najadi, has said he is too scared to return to Malaysia. Despite fleeing, whistle-blower Xavier Justo has vowed not to give up his fight against the corruption and money laundering…
Malaysia’s recent change of government has driven a whistle-blower from the Southeast Asian country to Switzerland, while Pascal Najadi, the son of murdered banker Hussain Najadi, has said he is too scared to return to Malaysia. Despite fleeing, whistle-blower Xavier Justo has vowed not to give up his fight against the corruption and money laundering…
A shutdown to contain the coronavirus has killed Thailand’s party scene and forced sex workers like Pim out of bars and onto desolate streets. She’s scared but desperately needs customers to pay her rent.Red-light districts from Bangkok to Pattaya have gone quiet with night clubs and massage parlours closed and tourists blocked from entering the…
Chinese philanthropists are stepping up their donation of protective gear, essential medical and diagnostic kits to the United States, Europe and Asian countries, despite rising acrimony between diplomats and government officials looking to pin blame amid the world’s worst pandemic in decades.The private foundations of Jack Ma and Joe Tsai, co-founders of this newspaper’s owner…
Kyle Navarro was kneeling down to unlock his bicycle when he noticed an older white man staring at him. Navarro, who is Filipino, tried to ignore him, but that soon became impossible.The man walked by, looked back and called Navarro a racial slur. He “spat in my direction, and kept walking,” Navarro said.Navarro, a school…
There are the new dead. And then there are the bodies waiting in overcrowded mortuaries to be buried as cities struggle to meet demand and families wrestle with rules on social distancing that make the usual funeral rituals impossible.Med Alliance Group, a medical distributor in Illinois, is besieged by calls and emails from cities around…
Abigail Bautista is used to being out of the house by nine in the morning to catch meetings in the office before noon. But for the past two weeks, the Manila-based consumer brand manager has not been anywhere near the office. Instead, she has been holding court with clients from the comfort of her dining…
The new release date for “Mulan” will be July 24, 2020.
Hong Kong’s shopping district of Causeway Bay remains bustling with people most days even amid the coronavirus pandemic, but few stop to read the posters plastered along streets advertising sales. Dozens of stores sit empty, their interiors ripped out, leaving behind just a concrete shell.At the popular G2000 fashion outlet at Jardine’s Crescent, spring and…
Chinese engineers have modified an old fighter jet to create a training aircraft for pilots who will serve on the country’s newest aircraft carrier – the Type 002 – which is currently in development, according to the plane’s manufacturer.The adapted JL-9 – also known as the FTC-2000 Mountain Eagle or “Shanying” – was produced by…
Grace said there was suspicion and jealousy in their 12-year long-distance relationship.
As adversity strikes in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, Algeria has found a helping hand in China, an old friend and the top exporter to Africa’s largest country.An Air Algerie plane arrived in the capital Algiers from Beijing on March 27 carrying a 13-member Chinese medical team and equipment, including respirators, worth around US$450,000.The…
The coronavirus outbreak has already taken a great toll on the Chinese economy, with all headline readings pointing towards a record slowdown in growth during the first two months of the year.But there is an even greater danger for what was once the world’s fastest-growing major economy: that Covid-19 will become the catalyst that will…
The coronavirus outbreak has already taken a great toll on the Chinese economy, with all headline readings pointing towards a record slowdown in growth during the first two months of the year.But there is an even greater danger for what was once the world’s fastest-growing major economy: that Covid-19 will become the catalyst that will…
Hong Kong lawmakers are not exempted from the new social-distancing rules outside the legislature, the government has said, as a pro-democracy lawmaker reportedly gathered in a group of 40 in a bar.The statement came on Saturday night as local media reported that Tanya Chan from the Civic Party went to a bar in Sham Shui…