The third millennium’s first two decades
"Numerous bad things have already happened." Having endured a thousand-year period that was visited by the Black Death and ...
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A duty to speak up
"People should continue to demand transparency and accountability from their governments." In December 2019, a doctor from Wuhan in Hubei ...
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Coping with stress? Have a good cry, say virus experts
Feeling stressed by the deadly coronavirus? Have a good cry, say Chinese health experts. If that does not work, buy ...
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Understanding the new coronavirus
Earlier this week, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of a new coronavirus a Public Health Emergency of International ...
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Scared and scarred
"Let us set aside all skepticism." Without making light of the wildly spreading nCoV (Novel Coronavirus) let me ...
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Global economy catches cold
A new virus in China is threatening to spread globally and raising fears that it could eclipse the fallout from ...
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Age-old measures of protection
By Olivier Thibault Quarantines and cordons sanitaires, such as those being imposed on Chinese cities to contain the new coronavirus, ...
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Learning from SARS
"We are our own indirect protection against diseases." While our nation deals with the possibility of an explosive ...
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Wuhan virus compounds Hong Kong’s woes
Hong Kong"•The emergence of a SARS-like virus in China is the last thing Hong Kong’s struggling economy needs, analysts say, ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.