Exceptional Times | South Korea shoe cobbler donates for needy amid coronavirus

Kim Byung-rok survived tuberculosis when he was 23, but was left with one good lung. In his work polishing and mending shoes, he inhaled too much dirt. So when he bought

Exceptional Times | Students provide sanitizers to daily workers to fight virus

They toil on the fringes, without any job security or set hours or decent wages. And the coronavirus has made their already difficult lives harder, and more hazardous. And so a

This Day in History | 2000 Wartime coding machine stolen

A coding machine used by the Germans to encode messages during World War II has been stolen from the Bletchley Park Museum in Buckinghamshire, south-east England. Police said the thief is

Spain hit by record virus deaths; NY demands reinforcements

Spain’s coronavirus deaths jumped by a record number yesterday as the country’s medical system strained to care for its tens of thousands of infected patients, and the World Health Organization

Huawei warns of ‘pandora’s box’ if US curbs Taiwan supply

Huawei Technologies Co. is bracing for its most difficult year on record in 2020, when tightening U.S. sanctions and the Covid-19 pandemic threaten to slam an already slowing business. Rotating Chairman

Football | Tottenham announces salary cuts as chair’s pay rise emerges

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy says salaries for non-playing staff are being cut due to the coronavirus pandemic as the club has disclosed his pay package more than doubled to 7

The Buzz | Bottles of spirits, wine free at Taipa bar [April Fools’]

A Taipa bar is offering bottles of spirits and wines for free to regular and walk-in patrons – up to 10 bottles per person. The bar owners said this measure came

Hong Kong dollar strength to last after best run since 2003

In a world convulsed by market volatility, there’s one surety (for now): Hong Kong’s currency will continue outperforming the greenback. Elevated local rates relative to the U.S. have made the city’s

World Briefs

RUSSIA Moscow woke up to a lockdown obliging most of its 13 million residents to stay home, and many other regions of the vast country quickly followed suit to stem

World Views | New tests could turn tide against coronavirus—if they work

Spain wanted some new rapid coronavirus tests so badly that it bought ones that didn’t work. So did the Czech Republic. The U.K. snapped up millions of them as well,

Wednesday, April 1, 2020 – edition no. 3505

    * No way back to Macau from HK * Dismantling democracy? Virus used as excuse to quell dissent * Lawmakers call for gaming operators to do more for economic diversification ahead of

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