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HK economy shrank 3.5% on exports plunge, COVID impact

HONG KONG, China—Hong Kong’s economy shrank by 3.5 percent in 2022, with exports plunging and the city’s worst-ever coronavirus outbreak battering businesses, the government...

Hong Kong exchange profits plunge amid IPO drought and virus outbreak

HONG KONG, China—Hong Kong’s stock exchange on Wednesday reported its biggest quarterly drop in profits for six years as tightened Chinese regulations strangled new...

HK invokes emergency powers to fight outbreak

Hong Kong’s government invoked emergency powers on Thursday to allow doctors, nurses and other personnel from the Chinese mainland to help combat a spiraling...

Sydney extends lockdown, imposes partial curfew

Sydney extended its two-month-old lockdown for another month and introduced a partial curfew Friday, as Australia's largest city struggled to contain a fast-spreading coronavirus...

Malaysia PM Muhyiddin quits with no clear successor in line

KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia’s prime minister resigned, and his government collapsed Monday after just 17 months in office, throwing the country into fresh political turmoil as...

Olympic baton to Beijing amid virus

Beijing—The focus immediately shifts to Beijing as the curtain falls on the Tokyo Olympics, with a growing coronavirus outbreak in China and boycott calls...

Tokyo hands Olympic baton to Beijing but virus, boycott calls weigh

The focus immediately shifts to Beijing as the curtain falls on the Tokyo Olympics, with a growing coronavirus outbreak in China and boycott calls...

China says Delta variant behind virus surge

China raced Saturday to contain its worst coronavirus outbreak in months, as health officials blamed the highly infectious c for a surge in infections...

World Bank: Myanmar’s economy to fall 18% due to coup, pandemic

Bangkok—Myanmar’s economy is expected to shrink by 18 percent in 2021, the World Bank said Monday, as a result of massive unrest following a...

8m people in Hanoi go into lockdown as virus cases soar

Vietnam locked down eight million people in Hanoi on Saturday, the latest attempt to curb a serious coronavirus outbreak that has already forced a...

Melbourne, Sydney in lockdown, 12 million ordered to stay at home

Australia’s bid to quash a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak will see its second largest city lock down late Thursday, bringing the total number of Australians...

Malaysia imposes lockdown as Southeast Asia battles virus surge

Malaysia imposed a tough nationwide lockdown on Tuesday to battle a worsening coronavirus outbreak, as countries across Southeast Asia struggled with a resurgence in...

China exports spike to highest in decades after COVID-19 hit

China's export growth jumped to the highest in over two decades, official data showed Sunday, with imports also surging in a sharp bounceback from...

Biggest GDP drop for Peru in decades due to lockdown

Peru's economy shrank in 2020 by its biggest margin in three decades on the back of a months-long lockdown to try to contain the...
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