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Gloves are off: Trumpians turn to disinformation

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UK is closed and government to pay 80% of workers' wages

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak (L) and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) attend a news conference addressing the government's response to the novel coronavirus inside

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Uber Eats UK waives fees during the coronavirus crisis

Uber Eats is waiving delivery and activations fees in the UK to support restaurants hit by decreasing demand during the coronavirus crisis.The measure will apply until March 31 when it says it will r

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APD | Pakistani students satisfied with their look after in China

By APD writer Imdad HussainPakistani students specially in Wuhan are all praise for the Chinese leadership for their look after and contrary to their earlier reaction a

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Chinese-American business suffering during COVID-19

VCG They call Rockville, Maryland, “The New Chinatown.” It’s a suburb of Washington D.C., where thousands of Chinese-Americans live and work.People come from around the D.C. area to dine at re

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Just Eat cuts its take for 30-days to help restaurants during the COVID-19 crisis

UK takeout marketplace Just Eat has announced a 30-day emergency support package for restaurants on its platform to help them through disruption caused by the coronavirus crisis.From tomorrow (March 2

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Production gradually resumes in China's coronavirus-hit regions

02:48 Stranded at home for almost two months, migrant worker Huang Qizhi was worried he might not be able to pay back his monthly loans."Qianjiang was previously rated as a high-risk r

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Online learning at home raises concerns over myopia risk: survey

A survey showed that 92.8 percent of parents are worried about their children's eyesight as their children are learning online at home amid the novel coronavirus outbr

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Facebook’s $1,000 bonus only applies to full-time employees working from home, not contractors

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an internal memo earlier this week that the company will give employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic a $1,000 cash bonus. But, as the Intercept

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Don’t be stupid and hold off on announcing your funding round

For those who have followed TechCrunch and/or me for a long time, you know that I like to harp on the fact that fewer and fewer startups are filing their Form Ds with the SEC, which discloses informat

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Profile: Guardians of medics amid epidemic

Doctor Lu Jia cheers up for all medics fighting on the frontline of the epidemic. Photo taken in a hospital in Wuhan, central China, on Feb. 14, 2020. (Provided to Xinh

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News Analysis: Italy's economy staggering as coronavirus outbreak spreads, stock down nearly 35 pct

The Italian Stock Exchange had its second-biggest gains in nearly a month during Tuesday's trading session, but that wasn't nearly enough to offset the battering the markets took since the start o

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Lime pauses scooter operations in select markets amid COVID-19

Lime is pausing its electric scooter operations in California and Washington, as well as throughout the countries of Italy, France and Spain to help keep riders safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.R

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United Auto Workers call on GM, Ford, FCA to shut down U.S. factories

United Auto Workers called on the Big Three automakers — GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles — to shut down factories in the U.S. for two weeks over concerns about the spread of COVID-19, a disease

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Poll: 70% of Japanese do not expect Tokyo Olympics to go ahead as planned

Poll finds around 70% of Japanese do not anticipate this summer's Olympic Games will go ahead as planned.TOKYO, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Around 70 percent of Japanese peopl

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COVID-19 fears turn Seattle into ghost town

When I landed in Seattle for the second time this month, I knew things had gotten a lot worse since my first visit to the Washington State. My first assignment was earlier in March when a nursing

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Roundup: Wall Street nosedives amid heightened coronavirus fears

Wall Street's major averages finished sharply lower on Monday even after the Federal Reserve's aggressive stimulus measures, as investors grew concerned about recession risk driven by the corona