ONLINE EXCLUSIVES
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Aug- 2021 -6 August
ASIAN SHARES FALL AMIDST RISE IN DELTA VARIANT CASES
Asian shares failed to catch a firm lead from a bumper Wall Street session on Friday as the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus
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5 August
DELTA VARIANT PUSHES SOUTHEAST ASIA TO BREAKING POINT
Countries across Asia are grappling with their worst coronavirus outbreaks of the pandemic, spurred by low vaccine rates and the
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5 August
WHO CALLS FOR BOOSTER PAUSE TO VACCINATE POORER COUNTRIES
As a number of nations including Israel and Germany have announced plans to administer a third dose, WHO Chief Dr. Tedros has
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4 August
SUSPECTED HIJACKING OVER UAE
Men who boarded and seized a ship in the Gulf of Oman have left the vessel and all those remaining on board are safe, officials say
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4 August
MOST UNVACCINATED PEOPLE DON’T FEEL RESPONSIBLE TO THE GROWING COVID-19 CASES IN AMERICA: HERE’S WHY
While the vast majority of vaccinated Americans blame the unvaccinated for rising cases of COVID-19 and the spread of new variants
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3 August
FINANCE FIRMS PLAN TO CLOSE COAL PLANTS IN ASIA
Some of the world's biggest financial institutions are working on a plan to speed the closure of coal-fired power plants in Asia
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3 August
EVER WONDERED WHAT THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE ON EARTH IS?
America and China must work harder to avoid war over the future of Taiwan and here's why. Leaders in Beijing say there is only one
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2 August
HERE’S WHY SINGAPORE COULD BECOME THE WORLD’S NEXT LEADING INDUSTRIAL HUB
There are deep rumblings afoot in Singapore’s manufacturing sector and the world will soon be surprised at its rise to global prominence
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2 August
FAULT LINES WIDEN IN THE GLOBAL RECOVERY
Economic prospects have diverged further across countries since the April 2021 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast with the
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Jul- 2021 -31 July
1.4 MILLION REASONS TO BE HOPEFUL
Over 728,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have been delivered to Sri Lanka out of a total contribution of over 1.4 million
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