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Coronavirus toll in China touches 2,870; number of cases reported daily continue to fall, but instances of relapse spark concern
• 5 years agoConfirmed cases increased to 79,824 even as infections outside worst-hit Hubei province dropped
Coronavirus outbreak shuts Macao, the world’s gambling capital but city expects to bounce back once tourism resumes
• 5 years agoAuthorities said 10 people in Macao have been sickened by the pneumonia-like illness, among them a hotel employee at Galaxy Casino, one of the city’s busiest gambling establishments.
Coronavirus outbreak: 41 dead, 1,287 affected in China, at least 12 cities under lockdown; virus spreads to Europe with 3 cases confirmed in France
• 5 years agoChina reported Saturday a jump in the number of people infected with a new virus to 1,287 with 41 deaths, as it expanded its lockdown to an unprecedented 36 million people and rushed to build a prefabricated, 1,000-bed hospital for victims
China-loyalist Ho Iat Seng takes charge in Macao amid trouble in Hong Kong; Xi Jinping attends swearing-in ceremony
• 5 years agoBeijing loyalist Ho Iat Seng was inaugurated Friday as China's chief executive in the tiny gambling enclave of Macao, which unlike neighboring Hong Kong has remained free of pro-democracy protests
‘Don’t mistake restraint for weakness’: Beijing official says Hong Kong govt capable of punishing protestors, downplays possibility of Chinese interference
• 6 years agoChina warned Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters Tuesday that 'those who play with fire will perish by it', a day after the most widespread unrest of the two-month crisis
China's Xi Jinping vows to defeat Taiwan's bid for independence, offers 'one-country two system' model instead
• 8 years agoChinese president Xi Jinping vowed to defeat Taiwan's bid for independence but offered to extend the 'one-country, two systems' model of Hong Kong and Macao to the self-ruled island to achieve "peaceful reunification" with the mainland.
India ranks a low 131 on index of information and communication technology access, says report
Fp Archives • 9 years agoIndia has been ranked a low 131 out of 167 nations on a global index that measures the level of information and communication technology access, even as the number of households with Internet and computer has increased in the country over the last five years.