Dhaka: Bangladeshi garment worker Nurunnahar Begum never imagined winning a leadership role at the Dhaka clothing factory where she first began as a...
Dhaka: Bangladeshi garment worker Nurunnahar Begum never imagined winning a leadership role at the Dhaka clothing factory where she first began as a...
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will expand a state of emergency to eight more areas and cover about 70% of the population as...
SINGAPORE/HANOI: While the rapid spread of the Delta variant and low vaccinations have caught much of Asia off-guard, no country shows more vividly...
NEW DELHI: India will supply millions of additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to its states to try to inoculate all school teachers by early...
Hanoi: Vietnam is offering patients who have recovered from the coronavirus a monthly allowance if they agree to stay on at stretched hospitals...
SYDNEY: Sydney's COVID-19 infections hit a daily record on Wednesday, putting parts of the health system under pressure, officials said, calling for vaccinations...
WELLINGTON: New Zealand recorded 62 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, taking the total number of infections in the latest outbreak to 210...
Japan, which Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has pledged will become carbon neutral by 2050, is grappling with a classic ‘build it and they...
ALMATY: Kazakhstan said on Wednesday it would ban unvaccinated people from shopping malls, restaurants and cafes on weekends in a bid to contain...
BANGKOK: As Thailand struggles with its worst coronavirus outbreak yet, researchers in the country have developed a machine to draw out COVID-19 vaccine...
TAIPEI: Taiwan reported zero new domestic COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the first time since May 9 it has logged no community transmissions, with...
In a mountain valley north of Kabul, the last remnants of Afghanistan's shattered security forces have vowed to resist the Taliban in a...
BENGALURU: Indian pharmaceutical firm Gennova Biopharmaceuticals' COVID-19 vaccine, the first homegrown mRNA-based shot, was found to be safe and effective in an early-stage...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Players from Afghanistan women’s national soccer team had an "important victory” on Tuesday when they were among a group of more...
WASHINGTON: The United States will ship just over 3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Pakistan via the COVAX global distribution program on...
SEOUL: People infected with the more transmissible Delta variant have a viral load 300 times higher than those with the original version of...
SYDNEY: Australia can proceed with its reopening plans when the country reaches 70%-80% vaccination levels, the government's pandemic modelling adviser said, even as...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has agreed to be the ruling political party's vice presidential candidate in next year's elections, the PDP-Laban party...
