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A woman wearing a face mask walks past a bank's electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index at Hong Kong Stock Exchange Wednesday, April 1, 2020. Asian shares were mixed Wednesday, on continuing worries about the economic fallout from the pandemic as reports of coronavirus cases keep surging in various regions. (AP Photo)

Economic fallout from pandemic continues in Asia

On Wall Street overnight, stocks plunged to close out their worst quarter since the most harrowing days of the 2008 financial crisis
01 Apr 2020 10:39 AM
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Tokyo Olympics rescheduled for same dates next year

This year's Games were scheduled to open on July 24 and close on August 9.
30 Mar 2020 5:43 PM
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Thomas Bach likely to call Tokyo Olympics head on new date

New dates could be in the same July-August slot, given Mori's repeated statements that the Olympics will be held no later than next summer
30 Mar 2020 1:14 PM
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Tokyo Games: Early signs suggest summer dates for 2021 Olympics

Organizing committee president Yoshiro Mori suggested there would be no major change from 2020
29 Mar 2020 9:40 AM
Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee president Yoshiro Mori (L) and CEO Toshiro Muto at an organising committee meeting. AP Photo

Two dates crucial for Tokyo Olympics restart: Opening and closing

That done, the International Olympic Committee, the Japanese government and Tokyo organizers can go ahead with other things
26 Mar 2020 4:03 PM
COUNTDOWN STOPS AT 122: A countdown display for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. AP Photo

Only war has cancelled Olympics

A look back at Berlin 1916, Tokyo 1940 and London 1944 when global conflicts forced the Games to be scrapped
24 Mar 2020 7:25 PM
Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee president Yoshiro Mori (L) and CEO Toshiro Muto at the news conference in Tokyo, Tuesday, where they announced the postponement of the Games until 2021 because of the coronavirus outbreak. AP Photo

Tokyo Olympics postponed to 2021

Japan, Olympics chief agree to postpone the Games by one year as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic
24 Mar 2020 6:58 PM
A woman wearing a face mask, amid concerns of the COVID-19 coronavirus, walks past an Olympic rings sculpture. AFP Photo

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe proposes 1-year postponement for Olympics

Pressure mounts on IOC as Olympic Committees of Britain, New Zealand and Germany seek postponement
24 Mar 2020 5:59 PM
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) with Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto (L) at a recent cabinet meeting. AP Photo

Shinzo Abe - Thomas Bach talks on the way forward for Tokyo Games

Tuesday's con call also oncludes Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike, organising committee chief Yoshiro Mori and Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto
24 Mar 2020 2:01 PM
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame is displayed outside Fukushima railway station in Fukushima Prefecture. AFP Photo

Olympic torch relay: No torch, no torchbearers, no public

'Torch Relay' or 'Torch Visits' could be a very short event or the longest if it runs into 2021
24 Mar 2020 12:57 PM
TIME IS TICKING: A countdown display for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. AP Photo

Tokyoites are convinced Olympic Games won't happen this summer

People say even if Japan overcomes the virus, they would not receive athletes and spectators from other parts of the virus-affected world
23 Mar 2020 2:53 PM
Japanese three-time Olympic gold medallists Saori Yoshida (L) and Tadahiro Nomura hold the Tokyo 2020 olympic torch, after transporting the flame from Greece, at the Japan Air Self-Defense Force Matsushima Base in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture. AFP Photo

Fate of Olympic torch relay in balance as virus worsens

The torch relay will start on March 26 in Fukushima
23 Mar 2020 2:31 PM
The athletes' village for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which are to be renovated and sold soon after the Games. AP Photo

Why postponing the Olympic Games is a complicated issue?

Postponing the Olympic Games is not like moving a football game to next Saturday: Thomas Bach
23 Mar 2020 1:54 PM
Japanâ's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a parliamentary session in Tokyo Monday. AP Photo

Postponing Olympics may be unavoidable: Japan PM Shinzo Abe

Abe hoped the IOC will make a decision early if it is postponed, because the process would involve a lot of work and should start soon
23 Mar 2020 8:43 AM
People gather to take a look at Olympic flame on display in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, north of Tokyo Saturday, on Saturday. AP Photo

Japanese brave virus to catch a glimpse of Olympic flame

More than 50,000 people queued to watch the flame displayed at Sendai station in Miyagi
22 Mar 2020 11:31 AM
Ground crews of Japanese Airlines wave to the special 'Tokyo 2020 Go' aircraft that will transport the Olympic Flame to Japan. AP Photo

Flame set to arrive as more voices join chorus for postponement of Games

The burning vessel will be displayed in three northern prefectures before the official relay begins on March 26
19 Mar 2020 11:52 AM
Katerina Stefanidi, of Greece, on the climbdown after clearing the bar during the pole vault competition in the Millrose Games track and field meet in New York in 2018. AP file photo

IOC's 'Committed to Olympics' statement puts athletes at risk

The IOC wants us to keep risking our health, our family's health and public health to train every day: Katerina Stefanidi of Greece
18 Mar 2020 12:52 PM
Japan Football Association chairman and Japan's Olympic Committee deputy head Kozo Tashima. AFP Photo

Japan Olympic Committee deputy head has coronavirus: statement

Tashima himself released a statement throug Japan Football Associaiton that his test result showed positive for the new coronavirus
17 Mar 2020 5:13 PM
Torchbearer Greece's Anna Korakaki (R), Rio 2016 gold medallist in the 25m pistol shooting, gives the Olympic flame to Japan's Mizuki Noguchi, Athens 2004 women's marathon gold medalist, during the Olympic flame lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia, Athens, Greece, last week. AFP Photo

Tokyo Olympics flame festivities scaled back over virus

Welcome ceremonies will no longer take place but spectators can watch the torch relay from the roadside
17 Mar 2020 3:34 PM
Large displays set up all over Toyo to promote 2020 Olympics. AP Photo

Is Tokyo heading towards another 'Missing Olympics'?

The 1940 Helsinki Games scrapped because of World War II were also due to be hosted in Tokyo
17 Mar 2020 12:54 PM

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