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PARIS (Reuters) - Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
SEOUL: South Korea plans fresh curbs on housing transactions in Seoul as Acting President Choi Sang-mok (pic) vowed to take "all available steps" to prevent a frenzy in the property market that could potentially complicate efforts by policymakers to shore up the economy.
Move may signal thaw in relations against backdrop of rapidly fraying alliance with Washington
Multiple Chinese cities are adopting fresh Covid-19 curbs, from business halts to lockdowns, to rein in new infections, with the commercial hub of Shanghai bracing for another mass testing effort after finding a highly-transmissible Omicron subvariant.
BEIJING: Multiple Chinese cities are adopting fresh Covid-19 curbs, from business halts to lockdowns, to rein in new infections, with the commercial hub of Shanghai bracing for another mass testing campaign after detecting the BA.5 Omicron subvariant.
World coffee supplies are suffering a fresh setback from stringent travel curbs imposed in second-biggest grower Vietnam to control the worsening spread of the infectious delta variant of the coronavirus.
HO CHI MINH CITY (Bloomberg): World coffee supplies are suffering a fresh setback from stringent travel curbs imposed in second-biggest grower Vietnam to control the worsening spread of the infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus.
Thailand plans to conduct mass active case detection at all fresh markets in Bangkok and 28 maximum and strict controlled areas in bid to curb the spread of Covid-19 outbreak in the kingdom.
HONG KONG (China Daily/ANN): The Hong Kong government will roll out a fresh tranche of financial aid worth HK$6.4 billion (US$826 million) for businesses heavily impacted by the government’s Covid-19 curbs.
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan on Wednesday announced to take fresh measures to curb the second wave of COVID-19 amid rising number of daily confirmed cases in the country, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) of Pakistan said.
ROME (Reuters) - A Rome court on Friday ordered a group of migrants detained in camps built in Albania to be transferred to Italy, sources said, dealing a fresh blow to a plan by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to curb irregular sea arrivals.
PETALING JAYA: With the new year and upcoming policy changes, everyday Malaysians are looking towards a potential fresh start for the country.
BEIJING (Bloomberg): A Chinese city will use lockdowns and school and business closures as part of its plan to contain influenza outbreaks, sparking concern among citizens about a return to the country’s economically-crippling Covid restrictions.
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BUSAN: Negotiators on a treaty to curb plastic pollution face tough debate on the last day of scheduled talks, as over 100 countries support curbing production while a handful of oil-producing countries want to focus only on plastic waste.
SHANGHAI: China's yuan firmed past the closely watched 7-per-dollar level on Monday, hitting its strongest since mid-September, as Beijing eased some of its strict COVID-19 curbs, potentially attracting fresh foreign inflows.
SHANGHAI: China’s yuan firmed past the closely watched seven-per-US-dollar (RM4.385) level yesterday, hitting its strongest since mid-September, as Beijing eased some of its strict Covid-19 curbs, potentially attracting fresh foreign inflows.
HONG KONG: Asian markets diverged Tuesday (Jan 14) as bargain buying after recent losses played against ongoing worries about the outlook for the global economy and the impact of a second Donald Trump presidency.
SEOUL: Export restrictions being considered by Washington to halt China's advances in semiconductor manufacturing could come at a substantial cost, experts say, potentially disrupting fragile global chip supply chains - and hurting U.S. businesses.
SINGAPORE: Oil prices fell on Tuesday as fresh COVID-19 curbs in China, the world's biggest crude importer, and fears of a global economic slowdown weighed on the fuel demand outlook.
