Virus poses cultural threat to Brazil’s Amazon tribes
AMAJARI, Brazil: In the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the advance of Covid-19 presents indigenous people with a cruel cultural dilemma -- remain in...
Five-day funeral planned for Seoul mayor
Park Won-soon (Yonhap)Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon was found dead Friday, according to police, in what appears to be one of the country’s highest-profile suicides...
Senreve opens first Hong Kong pop-up store
San Francisco-based online bag brand Senreve has opened a standalone pop-up store in Hong Kong, its first foray into a major city mall.
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The gloves come on: virus-hit Singapore votes
SINGAPORE - Wearing masks and gloves and being careful to observe social distancing, Singaporeans voted in a general election Friday as the city-state struggles...
New virus cases fall below 50; imported infections, those at churches...
(Yonhap)South Korea's new daily virus cases fell below 50 on Friday, but imported cases and infections tied to churches continued despite enhanced anti-infection measures.The...
Capri prospects ‘ugly’ as Michael Kors, Jimmy Choo underperform
US luxury group Capri has ended its fiscal year on an unsurprisingly gloomy note, largely due to the negative impact of the coronavirus....
Botanist battles lockdown to save Andean garden paradise
CALARCá, Colombia: When the coronavirus pandemic swept through Colombia in March, forcing a national lockdown, Alberto Gomez decided he would sit it out amid...
S. Korea adds 50 COVID-19 cases, mostly in Gwangju
(Yonhap)South Korea reported 50 new COVID-19 cases Thursday, with the government on alert over new clusters of infections linked to religious facilities in Daejeon...
Meet Buckwheat, the donkey who crashes Zoom meetings
UXBRIDGE, Canada: The coronavirus pandemic has led millions of people to embrace meetings via Zoom but, admittedly, those can be as tedious as in-person...
[Graphic News] N. Korean households hold average $1,300 in cash
North Korean families have average financial assets of over $1,700 while holding more than two-thirds of their assets in cash, the Bank of Korea...
