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                                <title><![CDATA[ Why not in Mahathir-built Putrajaya? Malaysians peeved as KL heads for Asean Summit 'lockdown' ]]></title>
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                                <description><![CDATA[ Many point out that Malaysia played host to even bigger global forums in the past without causing inconvenience to the public. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Boris Johnson referred to police over possible new Covid rule breaches ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 02:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The Cabinet Office says it made a referral to police based on information discovered while preparing submissions for a public inquiry into the pandemic. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ North Korea locks down capital city over 'respiratory illness', report says ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 02:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Residents are required to stay in their homes through the end of Sunday and must submit to temperature checks multiple times each day, according to NK News, which monitors North Korea. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ China urges 'final victory' over Covid as global concern mounts over spread ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 04:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ China's axing of its stringent controls last month has unleashed Covid on a 1.4 billion population that has little natural immunity having been shielded from the virus since it emerged in its Wuhan city three years ago. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ As China loosens Covid restrictions, protesters fear retribution ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 05:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ As many residents welcome a relaxation of measures that have crippled businesses and stoked unemployment, some scooped up by China's security apparatus face an anxious wait about their fate. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ China virus cases at six-month high despite grinding lockdowns ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 05:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The country logged over 5,600 new Covid cases Monday – almost half in Guangdong province, a manufacturing hub in the country's south home to major ports. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ China imposes Covid lockdown on area around iPhone factory ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2022 06:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The move comes after images emerged on Chinese social media showing people breaking out of the facility, which is run by Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn and employs hundreds of thousands of workers. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ US student test results show toll of pandemic lockdowns on learning ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona describes the test results as 'appalling' but says they are a call for action. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Chinese capital steps up Covid measures as cases quadruple ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 03:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The city of 21 million people on Thursday reported 18 new locally transmitted cases for the previous day, bringing the tally for the past 10 days to 197. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Local tourism spending rises during China's Golden Week despite lockdowns ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 04:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Building lockdowns are springing up across Shanghai and Chengdu, the capital of southwestern China's Sichuan province, was locked down in September. ]]></description>
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