Australia’s NSW state to ease water restrictions after heavy rains
Australia’s New South Wales state said on Tuesday it will ease water restrictions after a deluge of rains filled dams across the country’s east coast to their highest levels in more than two years.
China legal activist who called on Xi to ‘give way’ arrested: activists
Chinese authorities have arrested a prominent rights activist and legal scholar who had called on President Xi Jinping to step down over his handling of crises including the coronavirus outbreak, two fellow activists said on Monday.
Canada’s charter flight heads to Japan to evacuate its citizens on virus-hit cruise ship: TV Asahi
A plane chartered by the Canadian government has left for Japan to evacuate its nationals aboard a virus-hit cruise ship off Yokohama, TV Asahi reported on Tuesday, citing a tweet by Canada’s foreign minister.
Coronavirus could be knockout blow for Hong Kong’s once-thriving tourism, retail sectors
Tom Bennell’s olive oil distribution business took a heavy beating during months of pro-democracy protests that emptied Hong Kong hotels and restaurants, his major customers. Now he fears a knockout blow as the city fights the coronavirus.
Tokyo commuters bound for Olympic crowd crush as Japan Inc rules out work from home
When Emi Tanimura failed to find a daycare slot for her new-born daughter, she had to take a radical step for Japan to avoid a long time away from her job at communications firm Sunny Side Up . She started working from home.
China’s Hubei province reports 93 new coronavirus deaths
The number of deaths in China’s central Hubei province from a coronavirus outbreak rose by 93 to 1,789 as of Monday, the province’s health commission said on its website on Tuesday.
U.S. flies 338 Americans home from cruise ship, including 14 with coronavirus
More than 300 Americans who had been stuck on a cruise ship affected by the coronavirus were back in the United States on Monday, flown to U.S. military bases for two more weeks of quarantine after spending the previous 14 days docked in Japan.
Family says government did not protect young girl murdered in Mexico City
Relatives of a seven-year-old girl murdered in Mexico said on Monday the government had failed to protect her despite their pleas, while President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador appeared to blame the crime on neo-liberal economics.
UK PM’s adviser quits after backlash over contraception, IQ comments
An adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson who had discussed the benefits of forced contraception quit on Monday, saying “media hysteria” about his old online posts meant he had become a distraction for the government.
Venezuela suspends flights from Portugal’s TAP after Guaido flight
Venezuela said on Monday it would suspend TAP Air Portugal flights into and out of the country for 90 days, accusing the carrier of allowing opposition leader Juan Guaido’s uncle to bring explosives onto a flight to Caracas last week.
