BEIJING- China on Wednesday ordered the lockdown of as many as 13 million people in neighborhoods and workplaces in the northern city of...
BEIJING- China on Wednesday ordered the lockdown of as many as 13 million people in neighborhoods and workplaces in the northern city of...
TOKYO: Japan on Wednesday confirmed its first known local transmissions of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus in Osaka, a sign it...
The Philippines has shortened the interval for administering Covid-19 vaccine boosters amid the threat of the omicron variant. Effective Wednesday, boosters may be...
SINGAPORE: Singapore will freeze the sale of tickets for arriving flights and buses under its quarantine-free travel programme for four weeks from Thursday,...
KAJANG, Malaysia- Volunteers at a animal shelter in one of areas worst-hit by floods in Malaysia staged an eleventh-hour rescue of 120 cats...
MANILA- The Philippines' health ministry on Tuesday halved the wait time for a COVID-19 vaccine booster to three months to help prevent the...
Moscow: The Russian president on Tuesday reiterated his demand for guarantees from the U.S. and its allies that NATO will not expand eastwards,...
Seoul: As clocks struck 9 p.m. this week, customers packed up and left restaurants and other eateries across South Korea as a reimposed...
Thailand will reinstate its mandatory COVID-19 quarantine for foreign visitors and scrap a quarantine waiver from Tuesday due to concerns over the spread...
WELLINGTON: New Zealand on Tuesday postponed its phased border re-opening plans until the end of February over concerns of the rapid global spread...
TOKYO: The death toll from a suspected arson attack at a psychiatry clinic in Japan has risen to 25 with the death of...
McDonald’s Holdings Co. Japan will only offer french fries in small sizes from Friday after flooding at a Vancouver port and the coronavirus...
MANILA, Philippines: The governor of a central Philippine province devastated by Typhoon Rai last week pleaded on radio Tuesday for the government to...
New Delhi: India has recorded 200 cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant across 12 states, mostly in the western state of Maharashtra and...
Moscow: Russia on Monday said it was expelling two German diplomats in retailiation for similar expulsions by Germany. Berlin last week expelled two...
TOKYO: A 61-year-old man suspected of starting a fire that killed 24 people last week in an Osaka clinic bought 10 litres of...
SEOUL: South Korea's hospitals must dedicate more beds and resources for the treatment of coronavirus patients, President Moon Jae-in said on Monday, as...
SYDNEY: Australian authorities urged a "move away from fear" of the coronavirus on Monday, resisting calls to make masks mandatory indoors and limit...
