As India suffers the world’s worst coronavirus crisis, our New Delhi bureau chief describes the fear of living amid a disease spreading at such scale and speed. By Jeffrey Gettleman Photographs by Atul Loke NEW DELHI — Crematories are so full of bodies, it’s as if a war just happened. Fires burn around the clock. […]
NEW DELHI – Mr Saurav Srivastava had five hours to find oxygen for his father. At home, he told family members to stretch the use of the gas in the cylinder as much as possible while he left on his motorcycle with a friend holding an empty cylinder to look for a refill. Three hours […]
SINGAPORE – Primary 6 pupils vying to enter top schools will no longer need a perfect score. Entry scores released by the Education Ministry on Tuesday (April 27) showed a system that uses bands to calculate scores ranging from four to 32. According to the indicative scores, the lowest entry score for even the most […]
SINGAPORE – A Singaporean businessman linked to an alleged fraud involving more than $1 billion is facing two more charges for forging bank documents. Ng Yu Zhi, 34, is accused of fabricating two electronic records – one of a US$60 million ($79.5 million) bank transfer and the other, US$302 million that was purportedly the balances […]
NEW DELHI – Caving under increasing public criticism for failing to act and help India fight a devastating second Covid-19 wave, the United States rolled out a series of belated supportive measures, including sending over raw material required for the production of Covid-19 vaccines in India. A White House readout of a phone call on […]
NEW DELHI (BLOOMBERG) – For months, developed economies have hoarded Covid-19 vaccines and the raw materials needed to make them. Now, they’re being forced to act as an explosive outbreak in India raises the risk of new virus mutations that could threaten the wider world. Under mounting criticism for dominating vaccine resources, the United States […]
For Meng Shan, a 48-year-old urban management worker in the Chinese city of Nanchang, retirement can’t come soon enough. Mr. Meng, who is the equivalent of a low-level, unarmed law-enforcement official, often has to chase down unlicensed street vendors, a task he finds physically and emotionally taxing. Pay is low. Retirement, even on a meager […]
TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan projected on Tuesday that inflation will fail to reach its 2% target during its governor’s term through early 2023, as fresh curbs to combat a spike in COVID-19 cases overshadow the boost to growth from solid global demand.FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective mask stands in front of […]
BEIJING (AFP) – A towering wall of sand rushed over factories and apartment blocks in northwestern China’s Gansu province as seasonal sandstorms barrelled across the country, causing air pollution and traffic accidents. Aerial images as it struck showed an apocalyptic scene as a billowing cloud of yellow dust smothered Gansu’s Linze county on Sunday (April […]
BENGALURU (REUTERS) – India’s coronavirus death toll neared the bleak milestone of 200,000, with another 2,771 fatalities reported on Tuesday (April 27), while its armed forces pledged urgent medical aid to help battle the staggering spike in infections. Over the past 24 hours, India recorded 323,144 new cases, below Monday’s worldwide peak of 352,991, with overrun […]