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Xi, Macron call for quick China-EU investment ratification
Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron called for joint efforts in pushing for an early entry into force of the China-EU investment agreement. ➤
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Airports
Changi Airport, Singapore Airlines confront Covid: The struggle is real
In well-run and business-friendly, sunny Singapore there are a handful of things that are sacrosanct – among those are Singapore Changi Airport and the nation’s other source of immense pride, Singapore Airlines. But for these ➤
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China’s Zoomlion donates 3rd batch of med supplies to 43 countries
In a time when politicalisation weighs nearly as heavy on the world as the Coronavirus itself, China’s Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology Co. makes its third donation of medical supplies to over 40 countries. ➤
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Philippines to ask ASEAN peers to keep food supply chain open
Concerned over potential food shortages, the Philippines will ask its neighbours in Southeast Asia to keep food supply chains open and refrain from trade restrictions as the country locks down in the face of rising ➤
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China’s Jack Ma, Alibaba Foundations aid Asia in coronavirus fight
The Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation announce plans to donate much-needed medical supplies to 10 more countries in Asia to help the global fight against COVID-19. The governments of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Maldives, ➤
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Korean Air’s survival in jeopardy from coronavirus
Korean Air Lines warns that the global coronavirus pandemic threatens its very survival after South Korea’s outbreak saw global restrictions on travel to and from South Korea. Woo Kee-hong, Korean Air’s president, said earlier this ➤
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Carriers begin cutting South Korean services on back of virus surge
Struggling with a rapid surge in coronavirus transmissions since 19 February that has seen over 900 people now infected and ten deaths in the country, South Korea is now seeing its air connectivity contract as ➤
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Coronavirus cases decline in China, WHO warns against complacency
As the number of new cases of coronavirus infections in China continues to fall – currently totalling 76,204 infections and 2,144 deaths – the World Health Organisation (WHO) warns that infections outside the country could ➤
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Coronavirus to peak by end-February UK scientists say
The coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan will peak in mid- to late-February, according to a study by scientists affiliated with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The non-peer-reviewed findings were posted Friday on repository ➤
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Coronavirus infections, deaths rise – so too economic impacts
As of Friday morning the global confirmed cases of the coronavirus exceed 31,000 – the vast majority of which are in China – with the death toll climbing to 638. A useful John Hopkins University ➤