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Restaurants refocus their business models to bring meals to people. Nearly all of Beijing's restaurants closed for a month when the SARS outbreak hit 17 years ago. Liu Jingjing, who owns a dozen stores and restaurants, remembers clearly…

news, latest-news, IT'S usually only staff and inmates that have seen inside the walls of the Glen Innes Correctional Centre. But now, what life is really like in the minimum-security facility can be revealed after it was inspected for…

The main opposition Party for Future Integration announcing its election pledge at the National Assembly (Yonhap)The main opposition Party for Future Integration on Tuesday unveiled an election pledge targeted at…

Designs for a breathing mask that apparently allows wearers to unlock their mobiles while shielding themselves from deadly viruses have surfaced online.The bizarre gear will strap over your nose and mouth and feature an image of the…

SINGAPORE - The goods and services tax (GST) hike will not kick in next year while $6 billion has been set aside this year to help cushion the impact when the increase does take effect. The Budget's new Assurance Package means all adult…

news, latest-news, Warrabah National Park, including Muluerindie stone cabin, is open once again after multiple bushfires burnt through parts of park and forced its closure. The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) announced the…

South Korea’s fight against the new coronavirus may be entering a new phase of local transmission, the head of the state disease control center said Tuesday, as the country identified a third case with an unclear infection route. “The…

A North Korean official is spraying disinfectant somewhere in North Hwanghae Province south of the capital city of Pyongyang. (Yonhap)North Korea has yet to see its people infected with the virus that causes…

If a pill that gives your car 50 per cent more power sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is. But more than a decade ago the claim managed to suck in Aussie radio star Ryan “Fitzy” Fitzgerald, who invested in a the company that…

Identification and isolation of coronavirus patients in Hong Kong is being done days after victims start showing symptoms, a study by Chinese University revealed on Tuesday.The team analysed the first 56 infections of Covid-19…

Qu Lianlian － head nurse of the intensive care unit at Wuhan Union Hospital in Wuhan, epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Hubei province － left her 3-month-old baby in the care of her parents-in-law two weeks ago after she…

PETALING JAYA - Malaysian movie fans are flocking to cinemas to catch South Korean film Parasite following the movie's scintillating success at the recent Academy Awards. In fact, many local cinemas are rescreening the film to meet…

Chairman Hwang Kyo-han (center) and lawmakers of the new Party for Future Integration hold pink banners at the National Assembly in Seoul on Tuesday. Pink is the party’s official color for the April elections.…

Chairman Hwang Kyo-han (center) and lawmakers of the new Party for Future Integration hold pink banners at the National Assembly in Seoul on Tuesday. Pink is the party’s official color for the April elections.…

Rumours of a locker-room showdown between Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid and their all-star egos have plagued the 76ers all season.But this lighthearted moment during the NBA All-Star would indicate everything’s good in the city of…

Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto has reiterated the importance of praying amid the country's ongoing battle against China's coronavirus (COVID-19), saying that the weary public should use religion as a guiding principle in turbulent…

KUALA LUMPUR - Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) trial, which was scheduled to resume today, has been pushed to March 2 due to the wedding of his lead counsel's son. Deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Akram Gharib…

Of all the different ways to spend Valentine's Day, one local resident began her Valentine's in the National Centre for Infectious Disease (NCID) after being suspected of being infected with Covid-19. Despite the coronavirus fear that…

news, latest-news, POLICE are awaiting blood test results to determine whether further charges will be laid against a man accused of crashing a car during a police pursuit. Senior police said the speeds involved in the Armidale chase…

Towns in the bushfire-ravaged Bega Valley are relying on water carted in milk tanks after flooding made the catchment’s water supply undrinkable. Bega Valley shire council has been trucking bore water from Bega for towns such as…

BANGKOK - Thailand's army agreed on Monday to transfer management control of 160,000 hectares of commercial land to the finance ministry in a drive to reform its business practices after a soldier went on a shooting spree over a property…

community, Plane spotters were in for a treat on Tuesday morning when a huge air force transport plane cruised into town. The C-130J Hercules aircraft touched down at Tamworth airport and its doors were opened for the public to explore…

A South Korean government jet left Tuesday to evacuate Koreans aboard the coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan, amid concerns of rapidly rising cases of COVID-19 onboard. The VCN-235 Air Force plane left Seoul Air Base in Seongnam,…

Michelle Bridges’ lawyer has made a desperate argument in court to excuse the celebrity fitness trainer from having a drink-driving conviction recorded because she is “a special person”.Appearing in Waverley Local Court today, the…

SHYAMNAGAR, Bangladesh - Abandoned by her sons, shunned by her neighbours and branded a witch. Ms Mosammat Rashida's crime? Her husband was killed by a Bengal tiger. Women like her are ostracised in many rural villages in Bangladesh,…

Every day, while travelling to and from her temporary accommodation in Victoria's Mallacoota, Jann Gilbert is forced to look at the wreckage of her former home.The property was destroyed when bushfires tore through the coastal town in…

news, latest-news, URALLA'S toxic town water debacle continues, with no application for funds to fix it so far lodged with the state government. In a formal brief to Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall, Uralla Shire Council has…

(Yonhap)The Seoul City government will financially support 1,500 households living in semi-basement apartments like the one depicted in the Oscar-winning film “Parasite,” to improve their living conditions, it…

For Carmen Azzanese-Surace and son Daniele, the pain of trying to save their husband and father — Jules — will never go away. The family of three had just finished dinner one Friday in January last year, when Jules, aged just 45,…

The Grace Assembly of God may be the site of the biggest coronavirus cluster in Singapore with 16 confirmed cases and over 70 staff served with Home Quarantine Orders, but the 4,000-strong church is banding together to prove that they…

news, latest-news, Another vehicle has been caught up in floodwaters as several roads around Tamworth remain closed. The truck came unstuck on Burgmanns Lane in Calala. Steve Grierson, who lives around the corner, came across the truck…

31 Esplanade, Somerton Park. Picture by Jonathan Kissock Former Crows head coach Don Pyke’s Somerton Park home attracted a strong crowd at its first open on the weekend. Selling agent Oren Klemich said the response to the 31 Esplanade…

Pro-democracy parties on Tuesday pressed the government to deliver major cash handouts in its budget next week to everyone affected by the coronavirus crisis – including special subsidies for people who’ve lost their jobs, or forced…

The outspoken owners of a popular Hong Kong restaurant chain who supported anti-government protesters have doubled down on their insistence that staff would only serve Hongkongers "and friends from Taiwan", despite being told it was…

Online sales of disinfectant, hair care accessories, massage chairs, air purifiers, and disposable gloves have grown multiple times over the past few days as many Chinese consumers are forced to stay home because of the coronavirus…

President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday again called on the government to do all it can to deal with the economic fallout of the coronavirus outbreak.Speaking at a Cabinet meeting, Moon said the outbreak has created an “emergency economic…

BEIJING - The head of a leading hospital in China's central city of Wuhan, the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak, died of the disease on Tuesday (Feb 18), state television said, becoming the second prominent Chinese doctor to have…

Josh Frydenberg is ineligible to sit in federal parliament because of his Hungarian-born mother, a court has been told.One of the federal treasurer's constituents in the Melbourne seat of Kooyong argues Mr Frydenberg falls foul of…

Authorities in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak in Hubei province, launched a three-day campaign on Monday to screen people in order to leave no one unattended and curb the spread of the contagion. The…

Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin didn’t bite his tongue when he appeared on ESPN’s First Take on Tuesday morning.Tomlin was brought on to talk about one of the biggest talking points from the entire NFL season, when Cleveland Browns…

Visitors can spot a vehicle that looks similar to an ambulance at the Jiangxia Makeshift Cabin Hospital in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province. Inside the vehicle, however, there are 300 small round boxes marked with the names of…

Severe thunderstorms are barrelling through Melbourne this afternoon, with warnings the same could happen in both Sydney and Canberra. The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning around 2pm as dangerous storms headed…

Police have arrested a man suspected of involvement in a gruesome case, where more than a dozen pets are thought to have been thrown from a high-rise residential building in Sham Tseng last week.The 49-year-old man was being detained…

Videos showing Hong Kong police chief Chris Tang Ping-keung and top brass dining with entertainers known for their pro-police stance during the city's anti-government protests went viral on Monday. The banquet on Sunday night was hosted…

BHP shareholders will receive a heftier, fully franked 65 US cents per share interim dividend after the global miner lifted its first-half statutory profit 29 per cent to $US4.87 billion ($A7.25 billion).Revenue from continuing…

More than 60 police supporters have protested outside the government headquarters in Tamar, demanding the closure of RTHK. The "Alliance in Support of Our Police Force" members chanted slogans, calling the public broadcaster a white…

Hong Kong's consumer watchdog on Monday revealed that more than 90 per cent of tested yoga mats contained a substance that could cause irritation to the eyes and skin, and harm the reproductive system. The Consumer Council found 28 out…

The detective who tried to lure James Gargasoulas to surrender believes the deluded driver decided to carry out the murderous rampage at the last moment.St Kilda Detective Senior Constable Murray Gentner was pleading via phone with…

Summer sunlight filters through a large gumtree in her family’s backyard, as Martha Brown’s dog Story cruises for pats. It’s an idyllic scene, but for Brown – aka alt-pop musician Banoffee – being back in Melbourne is complicated. It’s…

A syndicate at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport is providing priority entry into the Philippines for Chinese nationals who bribe immigration officials with wads of cash, a senator revealed on Monday. The group operates with…