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19:40, August 14, 2020

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  Liaison office of China's central gov't in HKSAR dismisses US sanctions as anachronism

  HONG KONG, Aug. 8 -- The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Saturday firmly opposed and strongly condemned the so-called U. sanctions against heads of Chinese government agencies responsible for Hong Kong affairs and officials

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  HKSAR gov't officials voice opposition to so-called US sanctions

  HONG KONG, Aug. 9 -- Senior officials of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government opposed and condemned on Sunday the so-called U. sanctions against heads of Chinese government agencies responsible for Hong Kong affairs and officials of the HKSAR.

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  Virus rages in smalltown India, and so does stigma

  Sarthak Anand says his neighbours treated him like a "criminal" when he got coronavirus, a common experience in Indias vast hinterland where the pandemic -- and stigmatisation -- are now raging.Photo: AFP"Even though I have recovered fully, no one wants to come near me," Anand, a government employee, told AFP outside his home in Meerut, a northern Indian city home to 3.4 million people.On Friday Indias official caseload passed two million, and while previously metropolises like New Delhi and Mumbai were the hotspots, smaller cities and rural areas are now reporting sharp rises.According to public health expert Preeti Kumar, the probable reason is the return home of millions of migrant workers who were left jobless by Indias sudden lockdown imposed in March."We are seeing the numbers rise especially in states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, and with poorer healthcare systems, it is going to be a challenge," Kumar told AFP.The poor northern state of Uttar Pradesh, home to roughly as many people as France, Germany and Britain combined, has now seen the pandemic reach almost every district, no matter how remote.The state has recorded 100,000 cases. Its capital Lucknow is reporting more than 600 new infections every day, compared to only 100-150 just a few days ago.But the official number may be a big underestimate, experts say, with the real scale potentially hugely under-reported because of insufficient testing, and deaths not being properly recorded.Uttar Pradesh has conducted an impressive-sounding 2.8 million tests, according to a senior state official.But given its enormous population of over 200 million people, this equates to just 14,000 tests per million. In the US state of Texas, the rate is almost 10 times higher.Social boycottNationally, India has tested around 16,500 people per million, compared to 190,000 in the United States and 260,000 in Britain, according to a tally by Worldometer.Apart from having on...