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Wuhan a year after Covid struck: ‘Everyone wants to reset 2020’
Wang Fan is a young craft beer brewer in Wuhan. When his city became the first in the world to enter lockdown,…
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Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai returned to jail until at least February
Court grants prosecutors’ request to appeal against bail order on media mogulThe Hong Kong media mogul and pro…
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Indonesian fisher finds drone submarine on possible covert mission
Navy seizes UUV, likely a Chinese Sea Wing, that experts say could be used to plot routes for military subsAn …
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India’s Assam state bans all Islamic schools
Minister from Hindu nationalist BJP says schools should be producing Muslim professional workers, rather than …
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China approves Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine for general use
Rollout to begin ‘soon’ but about a million have already received injection under emergency approvalsSee all o…
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How Covid has plunged Asia’s captive elephants into fresh crisis
Stripped of tourism money, keepers in India and Thailand are struggling to keep their elephants alive Coronavi…
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‘See your own back yard’ – just don’t poo in it, New Zealanders told
Local travel making up for lack of overseas visitors but also causing problems See all our coronavirus coverag…
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Muslim Council of Britain challenges forced Covid cremations in Sri Lanka
Country insists all people who die of virus are cremated even if it violates religious beliefsCoronavirus – la…
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Mob attacks and sets fire to Hindu temple in Pakistan
Crowds reportedly led by Islamic clerics attempt to destroy ancient shrine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regionA viole…
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Landslide engulfs Papua New Guinea village with at least 12 people feared dead
Two bodies have been recovered in remote makeshift village of alluvial gold miners but heavy rain hampers effo…
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Wuhan: nearly 490,000 people could have had Covid, study finds
Official tests for antibody prevalence suggest an infection rate 10 times higher than official number See all …
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Hong Kong: China jails 10 who fled by boat to Taiwan for up to three years
Group’s trial on the mainland lasted just one day and was held with few public witnessesTen people who tried t…
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US and EU pressure China over release of Wuhan citizen journalist
Zhang Zhan, who reported from city at start of pandemic, was sentenced to four years in jailThe European Union…
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Sing Me a Song review – sombre Bhutanese internet love story
French documentarian Thomas Balmès checks in with the Himalayan monk he filmed back in 2013 to find him addict…
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China and EU poised to sign long-delayed investment deal
Deal set to anger incoming Biden administration in US, which demanded to be consulted before deal went aheadCh…