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The educational gap between poorer and richer households is growing in India and much of Asia, thanks to climate change
According to a UNESCO report, high temperatures are leading to poorer grades and worsened performan…
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A Chinese woman stuck in a 14-day quarantine watched helplessly via a surveillance camera as her dog demolished her living room and wardrobe
The woman's story generated widespread discussion in China of how pets should be dealt with when th…
Matthew Loh
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A US lawyer who flew to China in January says he ended up in government-mandated quarantines and isolation for 3 straight months before he flew home
Los Angeles-based Xue Liangquan tried to visit his family in China. He ended up spending months in …
Weilun Soon
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How Russia's invasion of Ukraine, vampire obsession, and 'secret bio-weapons' have played into China's narrative about COVID-19's origin
Russia's false claims about US bio-weapons laboratories in Ukraine have fed conspiracy theories in …
Matthew Loh
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Weibo users are backing Beijing's claim that it received Omicron via Canadian mail, saying an 'ugly nation' sent them 'poison'
Tensions between China and Canada have ratcheted up since 2018 when Canada detained Huawei executiv…
Matthew Loh
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China's claim of a Beijing office worker getting infected with Omicron through Canadian mail is 'extraordinary,' Canada's health minister says
The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday said a Beijing resident had been in…
Matthew Loh
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Officials failed to disclose two positive COVID-19 cases amongst personnel traveling with Antony Blinken on Southeast Asia trip
The trip came to an early halt on Wednesday after one of the reporters in the press pool traveling …
Morgan Keith
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Singaporeans who are 'unvaccinated by choice' can no longer receive free COVID-19 treatment
"Currently, unvaccinated persons make up a sizeable majority of those who require intensive inpatie…
Lauren Frias
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Thailand follows Denmark in suspending AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, pending an investigation into possible side effects
Thailand is the first Asian country to pause use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, following similar anno…
Grace Dean
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3 Chinese think tanks blasted the US coronavirus response, after Bloomberg ranked the country top in its COVID Resilience Index in June
The "America Ranked First?!': The Truth about America's fight against Covid-19" also called the US …
Vanessa Gu
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Video shows thousands of Indonesians storming vaccination center amid growing fears of COVID-19's Delta variant
Indonesia recently became a new coronavirus hotspot as the country struggles to get people vaccinat…
Sophia Ankel
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Sen. Marco Rubio mocked Defense Sec. Austin for masking up in the Philippines, where masks are required and COVID-19 is surging
Rubio, whose home state of Florida is also facing a COVID-19 surge, accused Lloyd Austin of "embarr…
Kelsey Vlamis
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The Senate unanimously passed a bill to declassify intel on the origins of COVID-19, including the Wuhan lab
President Joe Biden also gave US intel 90 days to produce a report on the matter, days after report…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Global stocks ease after Chinese data paints a mixed picture of recovery and inflation concerns weigh heavily
Investors are expected to focus on Federal Reserve speakers in the coming week as they react to US …
Shalini Nagarajan
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3 people in India repainted fire extinguishers to look like oxygen cylinders and sold them to families of COVID-19 patients, police say
The accused scammers sold "many" of the fire extinguishers to family members of COVID-19 patients f…
Katie Warren
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An elderly Indian woman whose family believed she had died from COVID-19 was moments from being cremated when she opened her eyes and began crying
The 76-year-old woman shocked her family when she woke up. They believed she had died outside a hos…
Sophia Ankel
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People in India are smearing cow dung over their bodies to ward off COVID-19 as second wave crisis worsens
Doctors in India have urged people not to smear themselves with cow dung, saying it risks spreading…
Sophia Ankel
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Lab workers in Indonesia have been accused of reusing nasal COVID-19 swabs in as many as 20,000 tests
The workers are accused of using new swabs to test someone, then washing, repackaging, and using th…
Katie Warren
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The COVID-19 death toll in India could be up to 10 times higher than the official 200,000 figure, experts say
India's morgues are so overwhelmed that bodies have had to be cremated in makeshift pyres in parkin…
Sophia Ankel
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COVID-19 pandemic to hit 220 million young people in Asia-Pacific region
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic will hit nearly 220 million young workers aged between 15-24 in hte A…