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Indonesia to suspend foreign arrivals as COVID-19 cases, deaths rise

01:24 Indonesia's foreign minister said on Tuesday the government would ban all arrivals and transit by foreigners in Indonesia as the number of the novel coronavirus cases and deaths

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China's national college entrance exam postponed for one month

The world is now in a battle against COVID-19, a disease caused by a previously unknown coronavirus that has spread to over 200 countries and regions. The following ar

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Where is the praise for the Chinese people?

Medical staff from Wuhan No. 1 Hospital bid farewell to medical supporters from Tianjin upon their leaving in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, March 21, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's

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Los Angeles-based challenger bank HMBradley officially opens its virtual doors

The Los Angeles-based digital challenger bank, HMBradley, opened its virtual doors to the public today, allowing the thousands of waitlisted would-be users to set up direct deposits and collect their

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China's Wuhan reports zero increase in COVID-19 cases

No new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were reported Monday in Wuhan, the hardest-hit city in central China's Hubei Province. The province

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Premier Li stresses prevention for asymptomatic coronavirus carriers

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang stressed prevention for those asymptomatic coronavirus carriers at a meeting on Thursday, as China has gradually resumed business operations

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Australian environment getting "worse and worse" every year: study

Researchers from Australian National University (ANU) have declared 2019 the nation's worst environmental year "in a century or more." The team, led by Albert van Dijk from ANU's Fenner School o

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Elizabeth Warren for President open-sources its 2020 campaign tech

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren may have ended her 2020 presidential run, but the tech used to drive her campaign will live on.Members of her staff announced they would make public the top apps an

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Test and trace with Apple and Google

After the shutdown, the testing and tracing. “Trace, test and treat is the mantra … no lockdowns, no roadblocks and no restriction on movement” in South Korea. “To suppress and

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Japan vows unprecedented stimulus as Tokyo coronavirus cases rise

Japanese yen. /VCG Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday promised an unprecedented package of steps to cushion the world's third-biggest economy from the coronavirus pandemic, saying t

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Despite the call, China- U.S. relations are likely to remain on edge

Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, an

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The push to discredit China's aid to Europe

A staff member arranges masks at a medical equipment company in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan Province, March 6, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and internat

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How Huawei is dividing Western nations

The relationship between the United Kingdom and Australia is not usually a flashpoint in international relations. After all, the two allies share a common language, ancestry, and monarch. So what caus

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Japan's Abe vows unprecedented stimulus as Tokyo virus cases rise

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday promised an unprecedented package of steps to cushion the world’s third-biggest economy from the coronavirus pandemic, say

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Passenger pigeon: Magnificent journey ends in dinner plates

Every year, the great migration of animals in East Africa draws great attention, as the whole world watches with interest one of the most spectacular phenomena in nature. But before that, one spec

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China recloses all cinemas as coronavirus continues

China's Film Bureau issued a notice Friday evening to close all the cinemas nationwide again, according to reports from Xinhua Daily and ThePaper.China closed all its cinemas in late January to co

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IMF chief sees G20's "clear commitment" on medical capacity, experience sharing

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday that "there is a clear commitment" from Group of Twenty (G20) countries to mobi