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BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2020
U.S. manufacturing rebounds but construction spending falls
U.S. factory activity unexpectedly rebounded in January after contracting for five straight months amid a surge in new orders, offering hope that a prolonged slump in business investment has probably bottomed out.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 4, 2020
U.S. whipping up panic over virus, China says, as Pakistan resumes flights
China accused the United States on Monday of whipping up panic over a fast-spreading coronavirus with travel restrictions and evacuations as Chinese stocks plunged on the first day back from the extended Lunar New Year holiday.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2020
The geopolitical consequences of the coronavirus outbreak
Will China be forced into 'hibernation' amid the epidemic?
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2020
Wuhan isn't China's Chernobyl
Comparisons between Beijing's handling of the coronavirus and the Soviet response to the world's worst nuclear disaster are tempting, but misguided.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 3, 2020
Abe pressed to do more as coronavirus fatalities in China surpass SARS toll
Both opposition and ruling party lawmakers have chided the government, saying that its initial response has been slow.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 3, 2020
Hong Kong medical workers strike to urge border closure with mainland China to block virus
Hundreds of medical workers went on strike in Hong Kong on Monday to demand the government shuts the border with mainland China to prevent the spread of a coronavirus and ease pressure on a stretched health sector.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2020
Online mask prices surge in Japan amid coronavirus scare
As a shortage of face masks continues in Japan amid the spread of the new coronavirus originating in China, their prices are shooting up on online flea markets.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 3, 2020
Xi has lots at stake as Chinese officials point fingers over coronavirus
Since taking power, Chinese President Xi Jinping has effectively made himself "chairman of everything." The coronavirus scare is showing all the risks involved with that strategy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2020
Coronavirus forces world's largest telework experiment
Thanks to the coronavirus outbreak, working from home is no longer a privilege, it's a necessity.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 3, 2020
U.S. flight rules on China visits will pose new airline challenges
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued rules on Sunday to implement new restrictions on Americans who have recently visited China to address the threat of the coronavirus.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 3, 2020
Trump says U.S. has 'shut down' coronavirus threat; China shuns U.S. help
The United States has taken decisive action to protect Americans from the threat of a fast-moving coronavirus while offering help to China, President Donald Trump said on Sunday, but a key adviser said Beijing had not accepted the offers of assistance.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2020
Financial market website Zero Hedge knocked off Twitter over coronavirus 'bioweapon' story
Twitter Inc. has banned financial market website Zero Hedge from the social media platform after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the outbreak of the fast-spreading coronavirus last week.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 3, 2020
North Korea says it is free of new virus amid travel restrictions
North Korea has had no cases of the new coronavirus that is spreading in neighboring China, a health ministry official said on state media on Sunday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 3, 2020
Hong Kong economy to see more weakness due to virus outbreak
The risk of further contraction in the Hong Kong economy, which was buffeted by anti-government protests last year, has increased due to the coronavirus epidemic, Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 2, 2020
Coronavirus outbreak to hurt Japan's economy, LDP's Fumio Kishida says
The deadly coronavirus outbreak will affect Japan's economy by hurting tourism to the nation, said Fumio Kishida, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's policy chief.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 2, 2020
Coronavirus lurking in feces may be a hidden source of spread
While doctors have focused on respiratory samples from pneumonia cases to identify coronavirus patients, they might have ignored a less apparent source of the spread: diarrhea.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 2, 2020
China culls 18,000 chickens after H5N1 bird flu cases in Hunan province
A city in China's central Hunan province reported that it had culled almost 18,000 chickens after an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in statement on its website Saturday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 2, 2020
U.S. military in South Korea imposes quarantine for troops returning from China
The U.S. military command in South Korea said it has instituted a 14-day self-quarantine effective Sunday for any troops who recently traveled to China, adding that an outbreak in that country of a new coronavirus could harm military readiness.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 2, 2020
'Please take my daughter': Mom of girl with cancer pleads for passage at virus blockade
Hours ticked by on Saturday as 50-year-old Lu Yuejin struggled to get past the police checkpoint on the bridge over the Yangtze river and out of Hubei province, which is on virtual lockdown as China scrambles to control a new coronavirus outbreak.

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