Tag: the buzz
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The Buzz | Navalny’s doctor: Putin critic ‘could die at any moment’
A doctor for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike, says his health is deteriorating rapidly and ... -
The Buzz | Officials say Olympic cancellation, no fans still an option
Two officials in Japan’s ruling LDP party yesterday said changes could be coming to the Tokyo Olympics. One suggested they still could be canceled, and the ... -
Education | MUST launches 7th annual communication week
The Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) launched the 7th Macau International Communication Week yesterday, an annual event with academic sessions on communication studies. Themed ... -
The Buzz | On Memorial Day, Israel mourns, reflects on vets’ trauma
Israel marked its national Memorial Day for fallen soldiers yesterday, in a year when national attention has been focused on the plight of veterans suffering from ... -
The Buzz | Premier League kickoff moved due to Prince Philip’s funeral
More sports events are being moved to avoid clashing with Prince Philip’s funeral, with a Premier League match between Wolverhampton and Sheffield United pushed to Saturday ... -
The Buzz | Microsoft buying speech recognition firm Nuance in $16B deal
Microsoft, on an accelerated growth push, is buying speech recognition company Nuance in a deal worth about $16 billion. Microsoft will pay $56.00 per share cash. ... -
The Buzz | Report: Hotel will house Olympic athletes with COVID-19
Athletes at the Tokyo Olympics who come down with minor symptoms of COVID-19 could be isolated in a hotel lined up by local organizers of the ... -
The Buzz | Philippines one of the latest countries to restrict use of the AstraZeneca vaccine
Philippine health officials are temporarily suspending the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for people below age 60. The Department of Health and the Food and Drug ... -
The Buzz | China warns Washington not to boycott Winter Olympics
China’s government warned Washington yesterday not to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing after the Biden administration said it was talking with allies about a ... -
The Buzz | Official: EU agency to confirm AstraZeneca blood clot link
Marco Cavaleri, head of health threats and vaccine strategy at the Amsterdam-based agency, said yesterday there’s a clear association between the AstraZeneca vaccine and the dozens ... -
The Buzz | Pfizer say vaccine effective up to six months later
Pfizer says its vaccine continues to be effective against COVID-19 up to six months later. Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, announced updated results yesterday from ... -
The Buzz | Coffee, Ikea furniture, livestock among the Macau-bound objects stuck at the Suez Canal
Livestock and lumber. Oil and automobiles. Exercise equipment and instant coffee. Those were just some of the products that were blocked by the ship just dislodged ... -
The Buzz | BioNTech increases vaccine production estimates
German pharmaceutical company BioNTech says that after ramping up its manufacturing and supply systems, it expects to manufacture this year up to 2.5 billion doses of ... -
The Buzz | Hungary first in European Union for vaccinations, and deaths
Hungary has vaccinated more of its population than any other country in the European Union, according to figures from an EU agency, but it continues to ... -
The Buzz | 32,647: Macau records highest daily number of visitor arrivals since Covid outbreak
The Macau SAR recorded 32,647 visitor arrivals on Friday, the highest daily number since the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic last year, the Government Tourism Office ... -
The Buzz | Philippine leader orders mayors investigated
The Philippine president has ordered at least nine city and town mayors investigated for possible charges after they reportedly jumped ahead of a priority list led ... -
The Buzz | Israel election: Netanyahu falls short of majority amid vote count
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu could struggle to secure enough seats in parliament to stay in power, incomplete results from Tuesday’s election show. With almost 90% of ... -
The Buzz | Sinovac: CoronaVac vaccine effective in children
Sinovac said that its COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac is safe and effective in children ages 3-17. The results were from early and mid-stage clinical trials with over ... -
The Buzz | AstraZeneca: US data shows vaccine effective for all ages
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine provided strong protection against sickness and eliminated hospitalizations and deaths from the disease across all age groups in a late-stage study in the ... -
The Buzz | US, Belgium, France and Japan hold Mideast naval exercise
The U.S. Navy said yesterday it will hold a major naval exercise alongside Belgium, France and Japan in the Mideast amid tensions over Iran’s nuclear program ... -
The Buzz | China summons technology firms over voice software security
Chinese authorities summoned 11 companies including Alibaba and Tencent for talks regarding the security of voice software, as Beijing steps up scrutiny over the internet sector. ... -
The Buzz | Biden questions ‘macho’ move to refuse vaccine
U.S. President Joe Biden is suggesting that some Americans who are unwilling to get vaccinated for the coronavirus are unpatriotic. Speaking to ABC News in an ... -
The Buzz | EU countries pause use of AstraZeneca vaccine
Sweden is pausing the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as a precautionary measure amid concerns about reports of blood clots in some recipients in Europe. ... -
The Buzz | Vatican excludes gay union blessing as God ‘can’t bless sin’
The Vatican decreed that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.” The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of ... -
The Buzz | Japan to tighten border control against variants
Transportation minister Kazuyoshi Akaba says Japan will tighten border controls and limit the number of entrants to up to 2,000 per day to guard against the ... -
The Buzz | EU regulator recommends using J&J’s one-shot vaccine
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) yesterday gave the green light to Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose coronavirus vaccine, handing the European Union’s 27 nations a fourth vaccine ... -
The Buzz | Greenpeace protests ECB’s loans for carbon-heavy industries
Greenpeace activists landed on the roof of a European Central Bank building yesterday to drop a banner protesting the financial institution’s loans policy, which climate activists ... -
The Buzz | China and US in talks for top-level meeting in Alaska: SCMP
China and the United States are in talks for their top diplomats to meet in Alaska “in a bid to reset a volatile but pivotal relationship,” ... -
The Buzz | Grammy performers: Taylor Swift, BTS, Cardi B, Billie Eilish
Taylor Swift, BTS, Cardi B and Billie Eilish are set to perform at next week’s Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy announced Sunday that Harry Styles, Bad ... -
The Buzz | Sydney’s LGBTQI Mardi Gras goes ahead, with restrictions
Sydney’s annual iconic Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras went ahead during the weekend, only in a different format due to coronavirus restrictions. It was being held ... -
The Buzz | Meghan accuses palace of ‘perpetuating falsehoods’
The Duchess of Sussex has said Buckingham Palace could not expect her and Prince Harry to be silent if it was “perpetuating falsehoods about us,” BBC ... -
The Buzz | Hong Kong probes death of man who received COVID-19 vaccine
Hong Kong authorities reported the death of a chronically ill man, two days after he received a COVID-19 vaccine and said that it is too early ... -
The Buzz | Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into ... -
The Buzz | Trump rules out new political party in speech to conservatives
Donald Trump says he has no plans to launch a new political party, telling a conservative conference in Florida that it would split the Republican vote, ... -
The Buzz | Rooster kills Indian man during banned cockfight
A man was killed by a rooster with a blade tied to its leg during an illegal cockfight in southern India, police said, bringing focus on ...
