Pandemic

He cautioned that the downturn in orders in the industrial gloves business would not be as drawn out as the heavy rebalancing required in the single-use medical gloves segment where there had been a huge peak and then a substantial readjustment where prices dropped markedly because of the flood of…

iStock/Khanchit Khirisutchalual Doing good for the planet is not inversely proportional to doing good business. Today it can actually mean better profit, stronger customer loyalty, and longer company sustainability. First, offices are finding paper less necessary than they used to. Recent surveys show a drop in paper consumption since the…

ASEAN Summit in Cambodia: Harbinger of regional growth and stability After two years of online meetings due to the coronavirus pandemic, Cambodia welcomes the presence in Phnom Penh of 10 heads of state and their top-level dialogue partners at the ASEAN Summit on Nov. 10-13. This follows the celebration last…

Guangdong province has reported 2,808 new cases of COVID-19, 2,637 of which were in Guangzhou.  Today, November 9, 2022, marks the third day in a row that the provincial capital has broken its own record for the highest number of new infections in one day. At 3 am this morning,…

Returning from a trip in Japan, Roxanne Tong (湯洛雯) and Kenneth Ma (馬國明) enjoyed their travels and look forward to taking their next step in life together. While promoting her new movie Love Suddenly , Roxanne could not stop gushing about Kenneth, who will be watching the film premiere with…

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: Humanity must "cooperate or perish" in the face of accelerating climate change impacts, UN chief Antonio Guterres told world leaders Monday at talks in Egypt on curbing global warming. In the midst of a barrage of international crises — from the Covid pandemic and Russia's invasion of…

A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City finds that the most commonly prescribed class of anti-depressants does not help reduce the severity of illness or even death for people who get COVID, as once thought. In the early days of the COVID pandemic, some observational…

“There remains resentment towards Premier Daniel Andrews about the length and severity of pandemic lockdowns in Victoria,” Dr Turner said. “Although many voters who resent the lockdowns remain sympathetic towards Andrews, his actions continue to play into voters’ concerns about his character, with the way that the Victorian government had…

Politicians often spend election campaigns promising to create jobs. This time they need people to fill them. When Victorians go to the polls in three weeks, they will do so at a time when unemployment in the state is at near-record lows. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the…

Illustration: Allie Carl/Axios Deaths caused by alcohol increased 26% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday shows. The big picture: That’s the highest rate recorded in at least 40 years, the study’s lead author, Merianne Spencer, said per…