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"Music is their language": school gives autistic Chinese youth a voice

Almost three years of pandemic restrictions have been hard for 23-year-old Chinese villager Zu Wenbao, but thanks to Beijing-based Chen's Studio, music has become his saving grace.

Reuters

LGBT+ Indonesians face difficulties accessing healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual (LGBT+) individuals in Indonesia have been affected during the COVID-19 pandemic by multi-layered discrimination and intolerance.

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Pandemic stress prematurely aged teens’ brains, Stanford study finds

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Thailand has resumed importing legal migrant workers under memorandums of understanding signed with neighbouring countries after the Covid-19 pandemic eased.

Bangkok Post

Amazon plans to lay off more than 10,000 workers. Its CEO just defended the hiring spree that caused the cuts

CEO Andy Jassy knew Amazon may have been expanding too fast during the pandemic, but defends layoffs.

Fortune

Prisoner release was considered at start of Covid pandemic – Hancock

The former health secretary’s diaries are being serialised by the Daily Mail.

The Independent UK

Seizures, deaths, depopulation: CheckMate looks into claims made in new anti-vax film Died Suddenly

A new conspiracy-laden film that baselessly alleges COVID-19 vaccines are causing large numbers of deaths has been viewed more than 10 million times in 10 days.

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Matt Hancock says he opposed 'bonkers' Covid plan to release 'thousands' of prisoners

The ex-Health Secretary who has just emerged from the I'm A Celebrity Jungle said officials 'insisted' on releasing inmates to ease pressure on the system during the first nationwide lockdown

Daily Mirror

Covid could cause long-term LIVER damage as shock new side-effect unearthed in study

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston found in a study that there is a link between Covid infection and liver stiffness - otherwise known as an indicator for liver failure.

Daily Mirror

Raf Simons to close – a fashion marketing expert explains how the brand lost relevance

Surviving 27 years in the competitive and fast-changing world of fashion is an accomplishment many brands only dream of. Raf Simons weathered the 2007-08 financial crisis, Brexit and the COVID pandemic with his eponymous label, but in November he announced that the SS23 line would be its last.

The Conversation

Pandemic stress prematurely aged teens’ brains, Stanford study finds

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A Stanford University study published Thursday found that stress from the COVID-19 pandemic prematurely aged adolescents’ brains, making them more like those of peers about three years older.

Tribune News Service

Losing pandemic benefits meant losing a lifeline for many Black and older people

Two million Californians lost their unemployment benefits last September when four pandemic-era federal programs ended. Some workers scrambled to find jobs, just as employers had hoped. But others, who’d been trying to find steady work for months, had their safety net pulled out from under them.

Tribune News Service

House panel says lax screening helped facilitate PPP fraud

A House investigations panel says financial technology firms “abdicated” their responsibility to screen out fraud in applications for a federal program designed to help small businesses stay open and keep workers employed during the pandemic

The Independent UK

Fed Chair Powell: U.S. 'housing bubble' formed during the pandemic and now 'the housing market will go through the other side of that'

"So you really had a housing bubble, you had housing prices going up [at] very unsustainable levels and overheating," says Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

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The Independent UK

New York ranks as world’s most expensive city for the first time

Inflation, the war in Ukraine and continuing pandemic restrictions saw prices rocket by an average 8.1 per cent in the 172 major cities covered

Axios

China entering "new stage" of COVID response, senior official says

A number of cities in China have eased some testing requirements and movement restrictions this week.

The Conversation

Why the G20 should defer debt from emerging economies like Indonesia and India – or risk an even worse global recession

When the pandemic hit the world in 2020, global debts reached US$226 trillion in 2020, the highest since the second world war. Meanwhile, government, household and private-sector debt in 31 emerging economies reached $98.8 trillion as of June this year, or 2.5 times their collective gross domestic product (GDP), according…

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The G20 pandemic fund – and how Indonesia plays a key role in it

One major achievement during this year’s G20 Summit was the establishment of a global fund dedicated to the prevention and containment of future pandemic threats.

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International freight finally moves on from pandemic blockages

The pandemic was among many reasons why the the price of shipping containers increased - that's now slowly changing.

Salon

COVID "ruptured" childhoods: study

A large study of schoolchildren suggests that kids suffered alarming social and educational setbacks

Fortune

How CEOs can lead in a recession and come out stronger: 5 powerful strategies from corner-office veterans

Battle-tested business leaders from CVS, Southwest Airlines, Honeywell and other Fortune 500 companies share their best ideas for navigating a downturn.

Evening Standard

House prices drop at fastest rate since pandemic after mini-Budget chaos

Brokers Mortgage Advice Bureau say “extreme market conditions” sent mortgage activity down 50%

Wales Online

Covid causes liver damage lasting months after infection, say scientists

Liver stiffness could indicate long-term liver injury such as inflammation or fibrosis

WEKU

DoorDash cuts 1,250 jobs after pandemic hiring surge

The decision by the online food delivery platform to eliminate about 6% of its workforce is the latest of several companies to recently announce job cuts recently, including Twitter and Amazon.

Wales Online

British public enjoying post-pandemic pedalling boom

New data reveals we are a nation of cycling enthusiasts, with almost seven in ten (64 per cent) admitting they cycle more now than before the pandemic

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