PETALING JAYA: Since the start of the conditional movement control order in May, the amount of time Malaysians spent at home has mostly been on a downward trend even as Covid-19 cases soared in the past few months. Read full story

JOHOR BARU: As the Covid-19 spotlight is now on foreign workers nationwide, some foreigners have resorted to buying fake negative Covid-19 swab test results to allow them to work. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia reported a record high 2,525 Covid-19 cases on the last day of 2020, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 113,010. Read full story

CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a knife attack on police on Monday in the capital of Russia’s southern Chechnya region, Al-Naba newspaper affiliated with the group said on Friday. Read full story

SAO PAULO, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Two cases of the new strain of COVID-19 detected in the United Kingdom have been identified in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, leading authorities on Thursday to call for stepped up measures to curb the spread. Read full story

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SAO PAULO, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Brazil registered 1,074 deaths from the novel coronavirus disease in the last 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 194,949, the Ministry of Health said Thursday. Read full story

CHICAGO, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) agricultural futures closed mixed on Thursday, with corn and soybean rising and wheat slipping. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- The number of initial jobless claims in the United States fell to 787,000 last week, the lowest level in a month, the Labor Department reported on Thursday. Read full story

SANTIAGO, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Chilean Ministry of Health reported on Thursday 3,022 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the highest number since July 10, when it registered 3,058. Read full story

Some of 2020’s biggest technology winners have a common thread: Besides being top performers, these companies are all market leaders that benefitted from trends that were supercharged by the pandemic. Read full story

You can celebrate New Year's Eve in Times Square thanks to a new application, which partygoers from all over the world can download for free. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S.-listed Chinese companies traded mostly lower on Thursday with seven of the top 10 stocks by weight in the S&P U.S. Listed China 50 index ending the day on a downbeat note. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street's major averages finish higher on Thursday as investors digested the newly-released U.S. jobless claims numbers. Read full story

ZURICH (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Thursday listed the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech for emergency use, saying the move opens the door for countries to expedite their own approvals to import and give the shot. Read full story

BRASILIA, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's government on Thursday announced it was raising the minimum wage for 2021, from 1,045 reals (201 U.S. dollars) to 1,100 reals (212 U.S. dollars). Read full story

QUITO, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 1,000 new daily COVID-19 cases and four fatalities, raising the total number of cases to 212,512 and the death toll to 9,473. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- March 14 will be COVID-19 Remembrance Day in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday. Read full story

CAIRO -- China and Egypt signed on Thursday a letter of intent for mutual cooperation on COVID-19 vaccines. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended higher on Thursday. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Total COVID-19 hospitalizations rose to 7,935 on Wednesday in New York state, up from 7,892 on Tuesday, tweeted Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices finished higher on Thursday, but suffered massive losses for the year, as pandemic-induced lockdowns and mobility restrictions hammered fuel demand. Read full story

It’s been a year many are eager to put in the past – especially those who were involved in 2020’s biggest tech and digital flops. Read full story

BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel said in her last New Year's address to the nation as German chancellor that 2020 was by far the most difficult of her 15-year leadership, yet the start of vaccinations against COVID-19 made 2021 a year of hope. Read full story

ZURICH (Reuters) - Britain on Wednesday became the first country to approve AstraZeneca and Oxford University's home-grown UK COVID-19 vaccine, adding an easy-to-manage shot to the arsenal of a nation desperate for pandemic relief. Read full story

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The highly infectious coronavirus variant originally discovered in Britain has been detected in California, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday, a day after the first known U.S. case was documented in Colorado. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- As lots of Americans are heading home or traveling for holidays, public health experts are warning of another possible catastrophic COVID-19 surge that could hit the United States hard. Read full story

BRASILIA, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's public sector registered a primary deficit of 18.1 billion reals (3.49 billion U.S. dollars) in November, the worst result for the month since 2016, the Central Bank of Brazil announced on Wednesday. Read full story

QUITO, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 1,186 new daily cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and 22 fatalities, raising the total number of cases to 211,512 and the death toll to 9,469, since the start of the pandemic here on Feb. 29. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks moved higher on Wednesday, underpinned by solid gains in the energy sector. Read full story

CHICAGO, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) agricultural futures rose across the board on Wednesday, led by wheat. Read full story

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Governor of the U.S. state of Washington Jay Inslee on Wednesday announced a one-week extension of the "Stay Safe-Stay Healthy" proclamation, along with the statewide restrictions on in-person gatherings and business activities due to the surging COVID-19 pandemic across the state. Read full story

HOUSTON, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- The number of active drilling rigs in the United States increased by three to 351 rigs this week, down by 445 year on year, according to the weekly data released Wednesday by Houston-based oilfield services company Baker Hughes. Read full story

Facebook confirmed on Dec 30 that it was closing its Irish subsidiaries at the centre of a dispute on profit shifting to avoid taxes in the United States. Read full story

As of Jan 1, 2021, the WhatsApp mobile application will only be compatible with smartphones running iOS 9 and Android 4.0.3, or any other newer operating system. Read full story

LG is unveiling a brand-new technology called QNED on its new televisions at the CES trade show, which runs Jan 11-14, 2021. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices advanced on Wednesday after data showed a hefty drop in U.S. crude stockpiles. Read full story

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Sweden's Public Health Agency has for the first time issued recommendations for wearing face masks on public transport, but only during weekday rush hours. Read full story

(Reuters) - Dawn Wells, who parlayed her girl-next-door charm and wholesome beauty into enduring TV fame as the sweet-natured desert island castaway Mary Ann on the classic 1960s sitcom "Gilligan's Island," died on Wednesday at age 82, her publicist said. Read full story

ANKARA -- The first batch of 3 million doses of China's SinoVac COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the Turkish capital Ankara early Wednesday. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar weakened in late trading on Wednesday as market participants continued to assess the possibility of larger U.S. fiscal stimulus. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- New York City's COVID-19 test positivity rate on a seven-day average climbed to 7.93 percent, compared with 7.45 percent one day earlier, Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted on Wednesday. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. COVID-19 deaths surpassed 340,000 on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. Read full story

(Reuters) - Argentina's regulator on Wednesday approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use, AstraZeneca said in a statement. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. oil prices climbed on Wednesday. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar weakened in late trading on Wednesday. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) - The EU drug watchdog is looking at when people should be given the second dose of AstraZeneca and Oxford University's COVID-19 vaccine, rather than at the size of the first dose, as part of its review of the shot, a source at the agency said on Wednesday. Read full story

BIHAC, Bosnia (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East were left stranded in the open air on Wednesday when an attempt to relocate them to another site in Bosnia after fire wrecked their temporary camp failed, police and migrants said. Read full story

OTTAWA, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Ontario and Quebec, the two most populous provinces in Canada, reported single-day records of new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday morning. Read full story

BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- China has recently rolled out a comprehensive development plan on the cultural and tourism development for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, said the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Wednesday. Read full story

HOUSTON, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. crude oil imports decreased while exports increased during the week ending Dec. 25, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Wednesday. Read full story

BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- The investment treaty between China and the European Union (EU) will bring more investment opportunities for companies from both sides and provide better business environment by making high-level market access commitments and adopting high-level fair competition rules, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Wednesday. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- The long-awaited expansion of Penn Station, a major city and interstate rail-transit hub in New York, into the James A. Farley Post Office Building will be completed by New Year's Eve and trains will roll into the new Moynihan Train Hall starting Jan. 1, according to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo at a ceremony held in the new hall on Wednesday. Read full story

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