The postponement of the rule, a senior government official said, is in view of the Covid situation in the country. “Giving a year’s time to companies will ensure better compliance,” he added.

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Hong Kong court jails Jimmy Lai and other prominent activists for 8 to 18 months over 2019 protest

A Hong Kong court has sentenced several of the city's leading pro-democracy campaigners to between 8 and 18 months in prison over their roles in unauthorized assemblies at the height of the 2019 protests. [...]

How to watch Prince Philip's funeral

Millions of people around the world are expected to tune into Prince Philip's funeral service on Saturday, which will be broadcast by major television networks and streamed online. [...]

Remembering the royal romance of Prince Philip and the Queen

CNN's Max Foster looks at the life of the Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip who gave up his military career to stand beside Queen Elizabeth II during her over 50 year reign on the British throne. [...]

Asymptomatic Covid patients may fast, says UAE scholar

Grand Mufti at the fatwa section of IACAD adds they must self-isolate themselves at home and follow all precautionary norms [...]

100 Million Meals drive passes over 57m mark in 5 days

The tally counter on 100millionmeals.ae has been moving non-stop as donations kept pouring in since the campaign's launch on April 11. [...]

Viral Dubai video shows a moon-shaped lake in desert

A Dubai-based photographer captured the video of the lake, accompanied by shrubs dotting the sand dunes. [...]

DOH reports 11,101 more COVID-19 cases in PHL

(Eagle News)–COVID-19 cases in the Philippines reached 926052 on Saturday, April 17, after the Department of Health reported 11101 additional cases. The DOH said of the total cases, 203710 were active. Of these, 96 percent were mild, 2.9 percent asymptomatic, 0.5 percent severe, 0.4 percent critical, and 0.29 percent were moderate. Recoveries rose to 706532,including the additional 799 ones. The death toll is now at 15810,with the additional 72 deaths. The Philippines vaccination drive is […] [...]

In Brazil, graveyard shift reveals staggering cost of pandemic

by Paula RAMON Agence France Presse SAO Paulo, Brazil (AFP) — In almost three decades of working in Sao Paulo’s largest cemetery, the oldest gravediggers can’t remember performing more than 10 night burials. But since the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic swept across Brazil, that exception has become the rule. The vertiginous rise in deaths in Sao Paulo in recent months has forced the mayor of the country’s richest and most populous city […] [...]

Pres. Duterte tells public about COVID-19 realities as he presses for local vaccine manufacture

Duterte: “We’ll have to go through the worst of times” (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte warned the public that things could get worse before it gets better, saying there would be more COVID-19 deaths as vaccine supplies are not enough and the COVID-19 variants that have mutated still continue to infect thousands. “Sabihin ko sa iyo marami pang mamamatay dito. Hindi ko lang maturo kung sino,” President Duterte said in his Talk To […] [...]