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Today’s coronavirus news: Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reports 3,535 in hospital, 607 in the ICU, today, and more than 1,000 deaths this month

1Feb

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Today’s coronavirus news: Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reports 3,535 in hospital, 607 in the ICU, today, and more than 1,000 deaths this month

The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Friday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available. 7:59 p.m. British Columbia recorded another 2,137 cases of COVID-19 on Friday, although health officials have said limited testing capacity means daily numbers are up to five times higher. Nine more people have died, for a total of 2,597 deaths since the start of the pandemic. The Health Ministry says 990 people are in hospital, and 141 of them are in intensive care units. 5:26 p.m. The Canadian Press has published a look at the latest COVID-19 news in Canada: The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is recommending teenagers with underlying conditions or at high risk of COVID-19 exposure get a booster shot. The advice come...

Online media newspaper “Aisha Daily” shuts down in Macau, questions on freedom of media raised

31Jan

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China, Conflict, Opinion

Online media newspaper “Aisha Daily” shuts down in Macau, questions on freedom of media raised

Macau, unlike Hong Kong is an interesting experiment within the Chinese political landscape, which has since the late 1990s been reclaimed by China from Western nations in promise of civil liberties alongside China’s authoritarian regime. Macau has largely been obedient to the Chinese diktats, unlike Hong Kong where pro-democracy protests have been raging regularly since the last few years. However, dissenting voices within Macau are now facing heat as independent online media houses are either shutting down or operating on borrowed time. Aisha Daily, an independent critical media outlet stood out for 16 years within the sphere of pro-organized media. Found in November 2005, Aisha Daily has now ceased operations in Macau allegedly due to “unprecedented environmental changes and

Malaysia concerned about Hun Sen’s Myanmar trip

30Jan

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Opinion, World

Malaysia concerned about Hun Sen’s Myanmar trip

Malaysia concerned about Hun Sen's Myanmar trip This handout photo taken on Jan 7, 2022, and released on Jan 8 by National Television of Cambodia (TVK) shows Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (R) receiving a souvenir from Myanmar military chief Min Aung Hlaing (L) during a dinner in Naypyidaw. Malaysia's foreign minister has expressed concerns about Cambodia's prime minister visiting Myanmar without first consulting fellow Southeast Asian leaders, highlighting regional tensions in how to deal with the crisis-hit country. Last week, Cambodia's strongman ruler Hun Sen made the first trip by a foreign leader to Myanmar since a coup last year that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government. Critics said the visit by Hun Sen, whose country holds the rotating chair of the Association of S...

28Jan

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China, Opinion, World

Cambodia internet soon to be like China

Cambodia internet soon to be like China PHNOM PENH: The day Kea Sokun was arrested in Cambodia, four men in plainclothes showed up at his photography shop near Angkor Wat and carted him off to the police station. Kea Sokun, who is also a popular rapper, had released two songs on YouTube, and the men said they needed to know why he had written them. "They kept asking me: 'Who is behind you? What party do you vote for?'" Kea Sokun said. "I told them, 'I have never even voted, and no one controls me.'" The 23-year-old artist, who says his songs are about everyday struggles in Cambodia, was sentenced to 18 months in an overcrowded prison after a judge found him guilty of inciting social unrest with his lyrics. His case is part of a crackdown in which dozens have been sent to jail for postin...

Djokovic’s Serb fans on edge as Australia hearing begins

26Jan

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Opinion, World

Djokovic’s Serb fans on edge as Australia hearing begins

BELGRE, Serbia (AP) — Novak Djokovic’s parents joined a protest rally in downtown Belgrade with their tennis-great son still in an Australian immigration detention hotel as fans of Djokovic in Serbia nervously awaited a crucial court hearing which could decide whether he can play at the Australian Open. The virtual hearing began Monday in Melbourne, with Djokovic appealing his visa cancellation amid a growing public debate over his positive coronavirus test that his lawyers used as grounds in applying for a medical exemption to Australia’s strict vaccination rules. The top-ranked Serb, who hopes to defend his title at the Australian Open and win a men’s record 21st Grand Slam singles title, was denied entry when he arrived at Melbourne’s airport on Wednesday and was awaiting the court he

26Jan

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Business, China, Opinion, World

Executives envision 2022 outlook

Executives envision 2022 outlook While 2021 was full of unexpected challenges from the pandemic, the Bangkok Post has turned an eye towards what 2022 might have in store for Thailand's business sphere. Our team of business reporters spoke with influential industry leaders across the economy, including banking, aviation, telecommunications, agriculture, hospitality, energy, online retailing and property. Some of the highlights are the interview with the chief executive of Thailand's largest private company Charoen Pokphand, and a discussion with tech visionary Jirayut Srupsrisopa, whose fintech company became the first of its kind to reach "unicorn" status in Thailand. Read more about interesting business trends and outlooks that top executives in Thailand anticipate in the new year. S...

23Jan

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Business, China, Conflict, Opinion, World

Why Moei River has become a war zone

Why Moei River has become a war zone Villagers seeking refuge cross the Moei River into Thailand on Dec 19 just after the Myanmar military launched attacks in Karen State opposite Tak province in Thailand. (Photo: Jittrapon Kaicome) This week's exodus of thousands of people fleeing for their lives from Myanmar's Karen State into Thailand's Mae Sot district in Tak was not unexpected. Prior to this, several agencies including those in Thai security, community leaders along the border, and military leaders of the Karen National Union (KNU) shared the opinion that this dry season -- the end of November to late April -- will see a fierce offensive from the Myanmar junta army aimed at suppressing armed ethnic organisations, particularly the KNU. Since early this year, the Myanmar army has ca...

21Jan

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Opinion, World

The year in corrections, 2021 edition

Those mangoes in the picture? They are Haden mangoes, not Julies as identified in the caption, wrote the reader who once worked as a produce distributor. “Julies do not have fat rounded cheeks nor do they have a reddish colour,” she said. Mangoes were just one reason readers wrote us last year. There were all sorts of other reasons — to challenge a columnist’s opinion, or to query an editorial decision on a story choice, headline or photo selection. And they wrote to set us straight when Star journalists slipped up. Associate public editor Brian Bradley and I fielded just over 20,000 contacts with readers last year, double the number from 2020. We published 1,017 corrections and clarifications online and in print to fix factual mistakes, down from 1,765 in 2020. The mistakes ran the gam

HK students mourn removal of Tiananmen statues

16Jan

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Opinion, World

HK students mourn removal of Tiananmen statues

Nervous university administrators clearing out last reminders of event Beijing refuses to discuss Candles and images of Goddess of Democracy statue are placed by students at the site where the statue used to stand, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, after it was removed by school authorities. (Reuters Photo) Hong Kong university students and graduates on Friday paid solemn tribute to two campus statues marking Beijing’s 1989 violent suppression of Tiananmen Square democracy protesters, which were removed overnight as authorities steadily erase all remaining tributes to the event. The removals come a day after Hong Kong’s oldest university took down a well-known sculpture commemorating the bloody crackdown, sparking an outcry by activists and dissident artists in the city and abroad

16Jan

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Conflict, Opinion, Singapore, World

Year of Turbulence

Flying through the Covid cloud has been hard enough, and then there's the added drama of dealing with the lengthening shadow of China across the region. Pandemic drags on recovery: In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, many Asian countries had enviable success, avoiding large-scale outbreaks and mass deaths. But the arrival of the more transmissible Delta variant this year and sluggish vaccine rollouts compounded by low availability sent cases surging. Combined with poor monitoring and easy movement among countries, often unofficially, Southeast Asia became a virus hotspot. The ballooning health crisis collided with churning political discontent in the case of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Economically, the new wave of infections, and attendant restrictions imposed to cu...

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