By Alice Wu We haven’t come very far since the beginning of Covid-19. Last week’s empty supermarket shelves looked like we had gone back to February 2020, when panic buying and stockpiling toilet paper got us on international headlines. Back then, it even got a Singaporean minister to call Hongkongers “idiots”.Most of the world, even […]
By Tribune News Service Shivangi Shibu was making a list of names Thursday evening of the hundreds of international students trapped in Sumy, Ukraine, when she looked out the window and saw the dark sky illuminate a bright yellow.“Then we heard a loud sound. We just ran to bunkers,” said Shibu, a fifth-year student at […]
By Reuters The eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao has reported 88 new coronavirus cases, all of them of the Omicron variant, fuelling China’s highest number of daily locally transmitted cases so far this year.China recorded 329 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, 175 of them locally transmitted, the National Health Commission said, compared with 102 […]