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BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – Leaning over a metal cage stuffed with live hens in Shanghai, Ran looked for just the right specimen for her chicken soup. The 60-year-old was shopping at one of China’s wet markets, where sales of freshly slaughtered, unpackaged meat have become the focus of an investigation into an outbreak of a potentially deadly lung virus. Three people […]
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Temperature checks at Singapore’s Changi Airport will be expanded to cover all travellers flying in from China amid reports that the mysterious Sars-like virus has spread beyond Wuhan. The city in Hubei province itself reported a dramatic tripling of the number of people infected with the virus, while new cases were confirmed in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. South Korea also […]
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An attempt to set a world record in Sri Lanka for the largest gathering of twins appears to have failed after too many turned up. The organisers of the event – Sri Lanka Twins – called on the island’s twins to gather at a sports stadium in the capital, Colombo, to try to break Taiwan’s Guinness World Record set in […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – UK government-owned finance agency the CDC Group has signed $400 million worth of African investment deals, part of a wider drive by Britain to develop new trade ties as it prepares to leave the European Union. CDC announced the new deals on Monday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for deeper links between Britain and Africa at […]
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AMSTERDAM – The Dutch unit of the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development will consider a complaint from three NGO’s against banking giant ING Groep NV’s involvement in the palm oil industry. Dutch Milieudefensie, Liberian SDI and Indonesian WALHI claimed in July that the Dutch lender continued to finance firms in the industry, even after they had alerted ING about […]
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SINGAPORE – A bid by lawyer M. Ravi to mount a constitutional challenge in the High Court on the basis that charges against his client infringed the right to equal treatment before the law was dismissed on Monday (Jan 20). District Judge Christopher Tan, after hearing the case on Monday, agreed with the prosecutors that the question at hand had […]
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People fleeing immediate danger due to the climate crisis cannot be forced to return home, the UN has said. The landmark ruling centres on the case of Ioane Teitiota, whose home – the Pacific Island of Kiribati – is threatened by rising sea levels. Mr Teitiota applied for protection in New Zealand in 2013. The UN rejected his claim, saying […]
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LAHORE (AFP) – Pakistani authorities refused to let a top human rights lawyer leave the country, citing her “anti-state activities”, she told AFP on Monday (Jan 20), in what appeared to be the latest example of an ongoing rights crackdown. Ms Jalila Haider, who last year featured on a BBC list of 100 inspiring and influential women for her work […]
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BANGALORE – The Andhra Pradesh government in south India on Monday (Jan 20) announced a decentralised three-city capital for the state, effectively cancelling the state’s plan for Amaravati, a high-tech city that was to be built from scratch with the support of Singapore. Last November, the newly-elected Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy terminated a contract with a consortium of […]
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