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Victorians won't miss myki, but what will 'best practice' transport ticketing look like?

With fewer people using public transport and more working from home due to the COVID pandemic, public transport agencies need to do everything they can to encourage more people to use their services. An essential step is to make the ticketing and payment process as easy as possible. That means…

The Conversation

Fears for rural population in China as COVID-19 spreads in villages lacking health care

Experts warn of a deadly COVID-19 spread to rural areas of China, where medical resources are limited and the population is aging, as millions of people begin travelling home as part of the final Lunar New Year travel rush.

ABC News

With L.A.’s COVID-Era Tenant Protections Ending, City Leaders Consider Permanent Safeguards

Advocates warn that without immediate action rising evictions will complicate efforts to combat homelessness.

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Newcastle's Chinese New Year timetable for Sunday's lion, dragon and unicorn dances

Here's what will be happening and when this Sunday as the free Chinese New Year celebrations get under way in the heart of Newcastle to welcome in the Year of the Rabbit

Chronicle Live

Emails Show CDC Policed COVID Speech on Facebook. Live with Robby Soave, Nick Gillespie, and Zach Weissmueller

Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET for a discussion of the Facebook Files with Robby Soave.

Reason

Plumber stole £10,000 of gold from shielding elderly woman with with a heart condition

Andrew Skingley was caught after being tracked in his company van visiting a pawnbrokers where some of the missing items were recovered. The theft happened as the victim shielded during Covid

Daily Mirror

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey on inflation, interest rates and recession

Andrew Bailey has been on an official visit to South Wales

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Dear Abby: My best friends shut me out when I need them most

Now that they have kids, they meet up and exclude their childless friend, who recently went through a breakup, losing a pet and a bad case of COVID.

Chicago Sun-Times

Numbers of asylum seekers in France close to pre-Covid record

Nearly 131,000 people asked for asylum in France in 2022 – a 27 percent increase from the year before and close to the record high from before the Covid pandemic.

Radio France Internationale

In a post-pandemic world, we need a new social contract for work

Companies need to develop new social and psychological contracts with their employees, according to Mercer CEO Martine Ferland.

Fortune

Financial worries keep many Chinese at home

About 40% of Chinese travellers aren’t planning to venture overseas this year despite the sudden easing of restrictions, mainly because of the financial impact of Covid, according to a survey published on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

People who catch Covid are five times more likely to die for up to 18 months

The findings of the study show that the chances of death remained five times higher up to 18 months later

Irish Mirror

Heartfelt tributes pour in for 'wonderful' DCU professor following death

The double lung and kidney transplant survivor has just last week spoken about his harrowing experience in hospital after being diagnosed with Covid-19

Dublin Live

James Dyson attacks Rishi Sunak’s ‘shortsighted, stupid’ tax policies

UK entrepreneur says economic strategy has left Britain in a ‘Covid inertia’ and calls for growth plan

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Zero-Covid Left in Dust as Chinese Revelers Fuel Travel Boom

Armed with selfie sticks and freshly recovered from Covid, Chinese tourists ambled through bar streets in the country's backpacker haven of Dali, partying the stress of the past three years into oblivion. As Lunar New Year approaches, China is seeing a domestic travel boom after the government abruptly dismantled its…

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Education decision makers focus on attendance rather than roots of absence'

School, especially secondary school, is often the worst environment in which the 1.5 million kids with disabilities and mental health distress can thrive and learn

Caixin Global

Fisher: This Year Will Deliver a Big Surprise — and Big Returns — for Stock Investors

After nearly two gloomy years, it isn’t easy to imagine a brighter 2023. But Chinese stocks’ recent rise shows that there are better days ahead for the market

The Independent UK

Hong Kong to scrap isolation rule for new COVID-19 cases

Hong Kong's leader says the city will scrap its mandatory isolation rule for people infected with COVID-19 from Jan. 30 as part of its strategy to return to normalcy

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Reuters

New Zealand's Ardern leaves legacy of kindness, disappointments

Jacinda Ardern has put tiny New Zealand on the map in her five years as prime minister, becoming a global icon for left-leaning politics and women in leadership, even as she struggled at home with the economy and COVID-19 restrictions.

The Conversation

China's population is now inexorably shrinking, bringing forward the day the planet's population turns down

China’s National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what researchers such as myself have long suspected – that 2022 was the year China’s population turned down, the first time that has happened since the great famine brought on by Chinese leader Mao Zedong in 1959-1961.

ABC News

Launceston's Boag's Brewery stops tours and closes visitors centre, putting 13 jobs on the line

Brewery operators say the impact of COVID-19 and declining beer consumption is forcing them to close the visitors centre and stop tours at the end of the month.

Wales Online

People who catch Covid five times more likely of dying 18 months after infection

Study involving 150,000 participants shows the likelihood of Covid-19 patients dying was up to 81 times higher in the first three weeks

Fortune

‘Hybrid’ COVID immunity from vaccination and infection is superior to that from infection alone, new WHO-backed study finds

The study shows "the advantages of vaccination even after people have had COVID-19," the international public health organization says.

The Independent UK

Defibrillators in telephone booths long preceded COVID

A movement to retrofit telephone kiosks with defibrillators across the U.K. is more than a decade old and didn’t result from the coronavirus or vaccines, according to Community Heartbeat Trust, the nonprofit that originated the idea

Evening Standard

Marble Arch: Covid-hit London destination introduces loyalty app to reignite shopping

One of London’s busiest shopping districts is looking to compete against online shopping by encouraging high street spending with its own loyalty app.

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