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This latest state of emergency in Tokyo and three other areas was announced last week, in a bid to combat the latest surge in coronavirus infections.

Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, fell over 10% from a day earlier to $34,200, according to Coin Metrics data.

It was the third identical autonomous underwater glider found in Indonesian waters within two years, according to defense analytics firm Janes.

Indian markets have performed relatively well in recent months following a sharp sell-off in March.

The World Bank said said growth prospects were already weakening before the pandemic — and the global Covid outbreak will likely worsen that slowdown.

Samsung’s launch is set to happen in the same week as the digital-only CES 2021.

Singapore’s economy contracted by 5.8% year over year in 2020, better than official forecast for an annual contraction of between 6% and 6.5%.

Henner Schwarz, CEO of German firm &ever, said that his company’s new indoor vertical farm in Singapore will produce 1.5 tons of “leafy green” produce per day.

Tesla’s shares have soared more than 676% so far in 2020. Meanwhile, bitcoin has risen about 220% as of midnight EST Tuesday, according to Coin Metrics.

The passenger was aboard Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas that set sail on Dec. 7 for a round trip to the city-state with no port of call in between.

Singapore has been testing trips where cruises make round trips to the city-state with no port of call in between.

The Reserve Bank of India held its benchmark repo rate — the rate at which it lends to commercial banks — at 4%.

Alibaba-backed AutoX said this is the first time a “completely autonomous fleet” without any safety drivers or remote operators is on the streets of China.

The Swiss bank forecast 19% in U.S. dollar returns for the MSCI Asia ex-Japan Index between now and the end of 2021, compared with 15% globally.

With the exception of China and India, many emerging markets elsewhere have been mostly shunned by investors in 2020.

Tens of thousands of farmers, mostly from northern states like Punjab and Haryana, have taken to the streets in protest against farm reforms.

India’s nonfinancial companies would see their earnings grow as demand starts to recover, following a sharp drop over the last two quarters, Moody’s said.

A series of high-profile defaults linked to state-owned companies in China jolted the credit market and rattled investors last month.

World economies look set to rebound in 2021 from the pandemic-induced slump, with those in Asia likely leading the way, said Taimur Baig of DBS Bank.

Lijian Zhao, a spokesperson at the Chinese foreign ministry, earlier tweeted the fake image of an Australian soldier holding a knife to the throat of a child.