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Inside ground zero of China’s coronavirus outbreak: you can’t even tell Lunar New Year is in town
A deadly outbreak of the new coronavirus emerged in this city of 11 million people last month. Within weeks,...
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Coronavirus outbreak: death toll from Wuhan flu rises to nine with 440 infected says China
Top officials at the World Health Organization will convene for an emergency meeting in Geneva Wednesday, to decide whether...
Read moreLive updates: Wuhan coronavirus outbreak kills nine in China as first case found in US
Gabriel Leung (right), chair professor of public health medicine at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong...
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Japan man arrested for leaving dad’s remains in restroom, police say
When Hiroaki Hishijima's divorced father passed away in September last year, officials in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward handled the cremation...
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Australian bushfires reveal ancient aquatic system older than the pyramid
The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, consisting of channels, weirs and dams built from volcanic rocks, is one of the...
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China races to contain Wuhan coronavirus as officials confirm it can spread between humans
Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered "resolute efforts to curb the spread" of the virus Monday as the official number...
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Malaysia sent back tons of plastic waste to rich countries, saying it won’t be their ‘garbage dump’
The country has been inundated with shipments of illegal plastic waste since 2018, when China cracked down on a...
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China coronavirus update: Virus spreads to Beijing as 139 new cases confirmed over the weekend
Health authorities in Beijing confirmed two cases of the new coronavirus on Monday, while Guangdong authorities reported one case...
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MSG in Chinese restaurants isn’t unhealthy — you’re just racist, activists say
For years, monosodium glutamate, a food additive known as MSG, has been branded as an unhealthy processed ingredient mainly...
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Coronavirus cases could be grossly underestimated, study says
Authorities in China's Wuhan city have confirmed 45 cases of the 2019 novel coronavirus, which is in the same...
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