By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia is seeking $3 million from the U.N. Green Climate Fund (GCF) to develop a national plan to adapt to climate change, the environment ministry said last week, amid deadly floods that have displaced nearly 70,000 people this month. The funds requested are paltry relative to the amount …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea authorised for emergency use Pfizer’s antiviral pills targeting COVID-19 as the first of its kind to be introduced in South Korea, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said on Monday. South Korea restored tough distancing curbs last week after easing them in November, after a series of record daily …
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(Reuters) – A court in military-ruled Myanmar has postponed verdicts it was expected to make in two cases in the trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to Jan. 10, according to a source familiar with the proceedings. The court had been due to rule on charges on Monday that included the possession of …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Shionogi & Co. Ltd announced on Monday that phase III of its clinical trial for a new COVID-19 vaccine has begun in Vietnam. The pharmaceutical company has already conducted clinical trials in Japan, but had said previously they will conduct multiple trials globally as well. (Reporting by Sakura Murakami; Editing by …
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By Kantaro Komiya and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s retail sales rose faster than expected in November, thanks to decreasing COVID-19 cases in the month, which have encouraged shoppers to ramp up spending on goods and services. To support the economy, Japan’s parliament last week passed a $317 billion extra budget that includes payouts to …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Nearly two-thirds of Japanese voters support Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government, with the public welcoming his anti-coronavirus measures, including temporary border closure to new foreign entrants, the Nikkei business daily said on Monday. Support for Kishida’s cabinet rose to 65%, up by 4 percentage points from the previous survey a month ago, …
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(Reuters) – Five-times champions Thailand will take on Indonesia in the Suzuki Cup final next week after Mano Polking’s side drew 0-0 with Southeast Asian title holders Vietnam on Sunday to advance with a 2-0 aggregate victory. The Thais had claimed a 2-0 win in the first leg courtesy of two goals from Chanathip Songkrasin …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China reported its highest daily rise in local COVID-19 cases in 21 months as infections more than doubled in the northwestern city of Xian, China’s latest COVID hot spot. The city of 13 million, which entered its fourth day of lockdown, detected 155 domestically transmitted cases with confirmed symptoms for Saturday, up from …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Central Japan’s Aichi prefecture has confirmed two cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 resulting from community spread, Aichi Governor Hideaki Omura said on Sunday. The infections were found in a teenage girl and her mother, neither of whom had recently travelled abroad, while the transmission route was unclear, Omura told a …
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(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck the Ryukyu Islands in the far southwest of Japan on Sunday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), the EMSC said. It later downgraded the magnitude to 5.4. There were no immediate reports of any damage …
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