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Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong handed extra jail time for Tiananmen vigil

Pro-democracy dissident pleads guilty to ‘unlawful’ protest last year

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Stay in your own backyard, China tells G7 on rights criticism

Accusations of abuses in Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong ‘unfounded’, says Foreign Ministry

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Sydney rushes to trace first local Covid-19 cases in a month

5 million residents will again have to wear masks on public transport and in indoor venues

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In world first, Serbia gives cash to those who get Covid-19 vaccine

Those jabbed by May 31 get RM120

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India sees world record 4,000 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours

Many places still seeing fatal shortages of beds, drugs and oxygen

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US backs plan to waive Covid-19 vaccine patents

Notion fiercely opposed by pharma giants, say patents not main roadblocks to scaling up production

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Fans warned off Tokyo Olympics marathon test due to Covid-19 fears

Scattered onlookers of races in face masks refrain from cheering to avoid spreading droplets

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Largest Pfizer study confirms jab provides 95% protection against Covid-19

Research based on national Israel vaccination campaign shows proof pandemic could be ended with rapid, global immunisation programmes

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French energy giant funding Myanmar’s military junta

Total allegedly diverts funds from gas sales to offshore accounts instead of government

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NZ declines to call China’s Uighur treatment genocide

Parliament passes motion expressing ‘grave concern’ at human rights abuses in Xinjiang

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India authorises 5G trials without Huawei, ZTE

Indian telecom providers to work with Samsung, Nokia, and Ericsson

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India announces US$6.7 bil in cheap loans for vaccine, health firms

Reserve Bank of India ready to deploy ‘unconventional’ measures if crisis worsens, says governor

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Mexico president vows full probe after 25 die in metro accident

Questions on construction, maintenance standards on network used by millions raised