Snapshots of daily life as city tackles COVID-19

A total of 38 schoolgirls have complained about a man who sexually harassed them outside their school, the Judiciary Police (PJ) has announced. According to a PJ statement yesterday, the police were informed about the case by a school in the northern district on Wednesday. The senior secondary school pupils said that they had been sexually harassed by the man outside their school since it restarted its in-class teaching on Monday, after its break since late January over the COVID-19

Commentary by Zhang Jun*The global recession the novel coronavirus pandemic is certain to bring about will be far deeper and more protracted than the one that followed the 2008 global financial crisis. While many governments have pledged to bolster their economies with unprecedented monetary and fiscal stimulus – despite having already massive public debt–the best they can probably hope for is to stave off economic collapse. If they insist on turning inward–pointing fingers and erecting