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The Buzz | World hits coronavirus milestones amid fears worse to come
The world surpassed two sobering coronavirus milestones yesterday [Macau time] – 500,000 confirmed deaths, 10 million confirmed cases – and hit another high mark for daily ... -
The Buzz | Coronavirus: Data show more infected men, women deprioritized
An international aid group says coronavirus data in some countries show a sharp discrepancy between cases in men and women amid concerns that women lack proper ... -
The Buzz | China, India agree to disengage forces after deadly clash
Chinese and Indian military commanders have agreed to disengage their forces in a disputed area of the Himalayas following a clash that left at least 20 ... -
The Buzz | WHO reports largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases
The World Health Organization reported yesterday [Macau time] the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the ... -
The Buzz | China indicts Canadians held since 2018 on spying charges
Chinese authorities have indicted two Canadians on spying allegations, pressing ahead with a case diplomatically entwined with U.S. efforts to extradite a top Huawei Technologies Co. ... -
The Buzz | US: 1.5 million more laid-off workers seek unemployment benefits
About 1.5 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, a historically high number, even as the economy increasingly reopens and employers bring some ... -
The Buzz | North Korea says it’s sending soldiers to joint border sites
North Korea said yesterday that it will send soldiers to now-shuttered inter-Korean cooperation sites in its territory and reinstall guard posts and resume military exercises at ... -
The Buzz | Lawyer: Egyptian journalist detained on fake news charges
Egyptian authorities detained a prominent local journalist yesterday [Macau time] on charges of spreading fake news, his lawyer said, in the government’s latest crackdown on press ... -
The Buzz | American sentenced to 16 years in Russia on spying charges
A Russian court sentenced an American to 16 years in prison on spying charges a sentence he rejected as political. The Moscow City Court yesterday read ... -
The Buzz | Accuracy still unknown for many coronavirus tests rushed out
How accurate are the coronavirus tests used in the U.S.? Months into the outbreak, no one really knows how well many of the screening tests work, ... -
The Buzz | Hedge fund manager who nailed 2015 China crash is hoarding cash
The Hong Kong arm of China’s biggest asset manager is amassing cash and building up short positions in a bet that the U.S.-China power games will ... -
The Buzz | Serbian club denies releasing Chinese player over politics
A Serbian soccer club denied yesterday that it released a Chinese player after political pressure from Beijing following statements his father made against that country’s communist ... -
The Buzz | K-pop fans become an unexpected ally to American protesters
As American protesters took to the streets to mourn the death of George Floyd, they found an unexpected ally: K-pop fans. Floyd died May 25 after ... -
The Buzz | BP to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide amid virus pandemic
Oil and gas company BP announced Monday that it will slash its global workforce by 10,000 jobs as the COVID-19 pandemic slams the energy industry. Chief ... -
The Buzz | Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 400,000
The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 400,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University that health experts say is still an undercount because ... -
The Buzz | At least 39 injured in knife attack at China kindergarten
A school security guard injured at least 39 people in a knife attack at a kindergarten in southern China yesterday morning, state media reported. The motive ... -
The Buzz | Hong Kong can get US dollars from China if needed, says financial chief
China’s central bank can provide U.S. dollars to back Hong Kong’s currency peg should the Trump administration impose sanctions on the territory, according to the city’s ... -
The Buzz | Get ready for Hollywood movie scenes where nobody’s touching
It’s the ultimate rewrite. To restart halted productions while protecting against the coronavirus, Hollywood heavyweights are recommending that scripts be changed to minimize touching – and ... -
The Buzz | SpaceX’s historic encore: Astronauts arrive at space station
SpaceX delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Sunday, following up a historic liftoff with an equally smooth docking in yet another ... -
The Buzz | 13 years a Times: the ‘teens’
Thirteen years ago, only someone with a crystal ball would have been able to predict how the year 2020 would turn out. Macau practically isolated from ... -
The Buzz | South Africa eases bans on alcohol sales, church services
The South African government says it will allow people to buy alcohol and attend church services starting Monday as part of its phased relaxation of the ... -
The Buzz | Poll: Half of Americans would get a COVID-19 vaccine
Only about half of Americans say they would get a Covid-19 vaccine if the scientists working furiously to create one succeed, according to a new poll ... -
The Buzz | Minister quits UK government over aide’s lockdown breach
A junior British government minister quit yesterday over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s failure to fire his top aide for allegedly breaching coronavirus lockdown rules. Johnson has ... -
The Buzz | TDM top official to retire September 1
The Executive Committee Chairman of public broadcaster TDM, Manuel Gonçalves Pires Júnior, has submitted a request for retirement starting September 1. His coming retirement indicates a ... -
The Buzz | Macau warns of toxic mold in fruit juice
A brand of bottled fruit juice made in Hong Kong has been contaminated by patulin, a toxin produced by mold, the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) of ... -
The Buzz | Wildlife consumption ban in Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic
The central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the global coronavirus pandemic originated last year, has issued a total ban on the hunting, breeding and human consumption ... -
The Buzz | Taiwan President Tsai takes stock of pandemic
Taiwan’s president said the coronavirus pandemic has changed the global political and economic order, accelerated and expanded the reorganization of global supply chains, restructured the global ... -
The Buzz | Civic group: Mexico City virus deaths three times those reported
A registry of death certificates in Mexico City suggests there were 4,577 cases where doctors mentioned coronavirus or COVID-19 as a possible or probable cause of ... -
The Buzz | Official: FBI finds link between Pensacola gunman, al-Qaida
The FBI has found a link between the gunman in a deadly attack at a military base last December and an al-Qaida operative, a U.S. official ... -
The Buzz | Officials: Chinese ambassador to Israel found dead in home
The Chinese ambassador to Israel was found dead in his home north of Tel Aviv yesterday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said. No cause of death was given ... -
The Buzz | Reports: Chinese Super League set to kick off in late June
The Chinese Super League is reportedly set to kick off in the last week of June, two weeks after lower-tier leagues are scheduled to begin in ... -
The Buzz | Mexico finds 15,000 turtles in crates bound for China
Mexican authorities said yesterday [Macau time] they have seized a shipment of 158 wooden crates bound for China containing about 15,000 fresh-water turtles, some of them ... -
The Buzz | Coronavirus: Wuhan draws up ‘10-day battle’ plan to test all 11 million residents
Wuhan is drawing up plans to test its entire population of 11 million people for Covid-19, state media report. The plan appears to be in its ... -
The Buzz | Hong Kong police arrest more than 200 in renewed protests
More than 200 people were arrested during anti-government protests in Hong Kong on Sunday night, police said yesterday, as authorities seek to prevent a revival of ... -
The Buzz | Colombian company creates bed that can double as coffin
A Colombian advertising company is pitching a novel if morbid solution to shortages of hospital beds and coffins during the coronavirus pandemic: combine them. ABC Displays ...