A scandal involving illicit payoffs linked to last year’s Tokyo Olympic Games is continuing to widen in Japan, throwing a cloud over a campaign by the city of Sapporo win the right to host the 2030 Winter Olympics. Residents of Sapporo, the largest city in Japan ’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido, were already divided over...
The rearranged Tokyo Olympics are likely to be a pared-down version of recent editions of the four-yearly Games, Japanese Olympic Committee chairman Yasuhiro Yamashita said on Tuesday. Japan and the International Olympic Committee postponed the Tokyo Games until 2021 in March because of the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, organisers have spoken of trying to simplify the event...
Despite how long it’s been, the coronavirus outbreak still looms over us like a dark cloud. Even though the situation seems to be getting better in Malaysia, it’s not the same case for the rest of the world. South Korea just declared red alert after the infections skyrocketed and Italy even sanctioned emergency lockdowns due to an intense outbreak....
