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OLYMPICS-2020/CORONAVIRUS (UPDATE 1, PIX):UPDATE 1-Japan's hosting of Olympics in pandemic 'not normal', adviser warns

By Antoni Slodkowski and Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - The organisers of the Tokyo Olympics have secured about 80% of the medical staff needed to sta...

By Antoni Slodkowski and Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - The organisers of the Tokyo Olympics have secured about 80% of the medical staff needed to stage the Games, a top Olympic official told Reuters on Monday, amid worries over infections and the slow rollout of vaccinations in the Japanese capital. Toshiaki Endo, vice president of the Games organising committee, said some domestic spectators could be allowed into venues for the benefit of athletes, although he personally preferred a total ban on attendance in order to reassure the public amid widespread opposition to the event. The number of...

Freed Japan reporter calls on Tokyo to take 'concrete action' against Myanmar junta Reuters 1 hr ago By Antoni Slodkowski © Reuters/KYODO Japanese journalist Yuki Kitazumi who was detained in Myanmar speaks to media upon his arrival at Narita Airport in Narita, Japan By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese journalist recently freed from a Myanmar jail urged his government on Friday to take "concrete action" against the military regime there, including reviewing its development aid. Myanmar authorities arrested Yuki Kitazumi, a freelance reporter who was coveri...

Myanmar’s crumbling economy runs low on cash Hours-long queues at cash-short banks have become a daily routine, creating work for black-market brokers By Thu Thu Aung, Shoon Naing and Antoni Slodkowski / Reuters If you need cash in Myanmar, you must get up early. Queues start forming outside banks at 4am, where the first 15 or 30 customers are given a plastic token that allows them to enter the bank when it opens at 9:30am and withdraw cash, according to more than a dozen people who spoke to Reuters. If you do not get a token, you either need to queue for hours for the few functioning cas...