Tag: the buzz
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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 ... -
The Buzz | April jobs data to show epic losses and soaring unemployment
The economic catastrophe caused by the viral outbreak likely sent the U.S. unemployment rate in April to its highest level since the Great Depression and caused ... -
The Buzz | Shanghai Disney Park reopening step-by-step
The Disneyland theme park in Shanghai will reopen May 11. Visits will be limited initially and must be booked in advance, and the company said it ... -
The Buzz | US Senate reopens despite risks as House preps more virus aid
The Senate reopened in a Capitol largely shuttered by the coronavirus, but prospects for quick action on a new aid package are uncertain with a deepening debate ... -
The Buzz | The price of rice… is not quite right
A day after insisting that alleged supermarket inflation was due to pricing errors without intent to overcharge, the Consumer Council has now decided to revoke the ... -
The Buzz | China opposes Taiwan participation in United Nations after US tweet
China said it firmly opposes any participation by Taiwan in the United Nations as it responded to a tweet by the U.S. mission to the international ... -
The Buzz | Ratings agency Fitch cuts Italy’s government debt grade
Ratings agency Fitch has cut Italy’s government debt grade, the first downgrade to a major economy to reflect the surge in public debt that is expected ... -
The Buzz | Brazil edges toward being next big coronavirus hot spot
Brazil is emerging as potentially the next big hot spot for the coronavirus amid President Jair Bolsonaro’s insistence that it is just a “little flu” and ... -
The Buzz | UN food chief: funding and access can avert starvation
The head of the World Food Program says he has been on the phone with leaders of some of the world’s richest nations with a critical ... -
The Buzz | Hong Kong police reject labor group’s request for May 1 march
Hong Kong police rejected an application by a pro-democracy labor group to hold a march on May 1, citing concerns about public health and security risks, ... -
The Buzz | Germany condemns anti-Semitic disruption of memorial on Zoom
The German government has condemned an anti-Semitic incident that took place during an online Holocaust memorial event organized by the Israeli Embassy in Berlin. Unknown persons ... -
The Buzz | China calls virus lawsuit brought by US state ‘very absurd’
China yesterday slammed a lawsuit brought against it by the U.S. state of Missouri over the coronavirus pandemic as “very absurd.” Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang ... -
The Buzz | God shush! the Queen: Elizabeth II marks 94th birthday without fanfare
Britain is marking Queen Elizabeth II’s 94th birthday with silence yesterday, as the nation in lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic forgoes the usual gun salutes and ... -
The Buzz | Fauci says reopening too quickly will backfire
The top infectious-disease expert in the United States has a message for protesters who are ignoring their governors’ stay-at- home orders and calling for him to ... -
The Buzz | Millions of orchids discarded by top world exporter
As global tourism collapses, so does the orchid industry in top exporter Thailand, where the flowers are regarded as a symbol of hospitality. Global demand for ... -
The Buzz | CHINA DENIES VIRUS CAME FROM LAB
China is denying allegations that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated in a laboratory near the city of Wuhan where contagious samples were being stored. Foreign ... -
The Buzz | VACCINE STUDY ADVANCES IN CHINA
Chinese scientists have started the second phase of a clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine in the hardest-hit city of Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province. ... -
The Buzz | French court tells Amazon to stop some delivery
A French court has ordered Amazon to stop buying, storing or delivering non-essential goods for the next month to protect its employees from the virus. The ...
