Pandemic

After a real war that destroys much of a country’s physical capital, a surge of investment can of course produce an economic expansion; nonetheless, the country is poorer for having lost a large share of its wealth. The same is true of climate investments. A significant share of the existing…

Health-care workers. Photo by Stock art /Getty Images We have a medical system that is unresponsive, maladaptive and continually failing us in the current health-care crisis. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It is a system held together by health-care providers who were…

According to charging documents, at 10:57 that evening, a PayPal account registered to a Gmail address paid US $84.72 to Domino’s Pizza in Arbutus, Md. Minutes later, that email account received Venmo payments from users called Thomas Carey, Gabe Chase, and Jon Lizak. A separate Venmo email showed a payment…

Many school divisions say the COVID-19 pandemic had affected reading development in schools as some children couldn't access the same supports. Rachel Engler-Stringer is on the board of directors for Dyslexia Canada. Photo by Matt Smith /Saskatoon StarPhoenix While most Saskatchewan students went back to in-person classes early in 2022,…

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Life & LuxuryArts & CultureReviewDon DeLillo’s story may be almost 40 years old, but since the pandemic it has taken on a new resonance. Jan 5, 2023 – 2.19pm Some novels leave an indelible impression. I read Don DeLillo’s White Noise shortly after it appeared in the mid-1980s but can…

By Lingling Wei and Jonathan Cheng Jan. 4, 2023 12:26 pm ET BEIJING—By the end of an otherwise triumphant Communist Party Congress for Xi Jinping in October, it was growing harder for China’s leader to argue that his zero-Covid policy was working. Reports were flowing into central government headquarters of…

As the new year commences, China’s top electric vehicle manufacturers have been announcing their delivery volume for the final month and entire year of 2022, a challenging period marked by repeated pandemic-induced lockdowns and supply chain shortages. In October of last year, GAC Aion, originating from traditional automaker GAC Group,…

RTHK has learnt that the government is hoping to first open the cross-border checkpoints at Lok Ma Chau, Man Kam To as well as the Hong Kong Macau Ferry Terminal when quarantine-free cross-border travel resumes as early as Sunday. Border control points that had been operating throughout the pandemic –…

A succession of locally-made hit films released in the second half of the year helped the cinema box office in Hong Kong to stage a remarkable comeback in 2022. Aggregate box office for the year was HK$1.14 billion ($147 million), some 40% lower than pre-pandemic 2019, according to new data…