The Taliban government in Afghanistan appealed on Sunday for international flights to be resumed, promising full cooperation with airlines and saying that problems...
The Taliban government in Afghanistan appealed on Sunday for international flights to be resumed, promising full cooperation with airlines and saying that problems...
MELBOURNE: Australia's Victoria state reported 779 new COVID-19 infections and two deaths on Sunday, off the previous day's record high as the country's...
Melbourne: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison refused to commit to phasing out fossil fuels as a major climate conference approaches, while his deputy...
Tokyo: Japan's Princess Mako is set to forego a one-off million-dollar payment for giving up her royal status to wed a college classmate,...
SEOUL: South Korea has set a record for daily COVID-19 cases at 2,434, breaking the previous record set last month, as the country...
SINGAPORE: Singapore said on Friday it will tighten COVID-19 curbs to limit social gatherings to two people and make working from home a...
HANOI - Vietnam has pushed back a plan to re-open the resort island of Phu Quoc to foreign tourists until November, after failing...
SYDNEY - More than half of Australia's adult population were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Friday, authorities said, as they step up...
KUALA LUMPUR - Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine is highly effective against serious illness, although rival shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca showed better protection rates,...
TOKYO - Japan's COVID-19 infection situation is improving such that emergency conditions could soon be lifted in most parts of the country, the...
BENGALURU - Indian drugmaker Shilpa Medicare Limited said on Friday it had agreed to produce Cadila Healthcare Ltd's three-dose COVID-19 vaccine. The country's...
BANGKOK: Thailand's disease control committee has proposed a halving of a two-week hotel isolation requirement for vaccinated arrivals, amid delays in plans to...
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday the country should aim for a 90%-plus rate of inoculation, and could drop...
SEOUL: South Korean authorities warned people returning from a holiday to get tested even for the mildest COVID-19 type symptoms, especially before clocking...
Sydney: Australia denied on Thursday an assertion by France that Canberra had re-committed to a $60 billion contract to buy French submarines in...
TOKYO - Japan plans to give other countries 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Thursday, doubling the...
SEOUL: South Korea said on Wednesday it would donate more than 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam next month in what...
UNITED NATIONS: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday that anyone found to have "acted beyond bounds" in his campaign against illegal drugs...
