WELLINGTON - New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern extended a nationwide lockdown on Friday as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country...
WELLINGTON - New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern extended a nationwide lockdown on Friday as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country...
SINGAPORE - America's Museum of Ice Cream launched its first international outlet in Singapore on Thursday, providing some sweet distraction from the coronavirus...
MANILA - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday approved the easing of coronavirus curbs in the capital region from Aug. 21 to 31,...
SEOUL: South Korea reported more than 2,000 new coronavirus cases for the second time on Thursday as it struggles to subdue a wave...
Singapore will pilot quarantine-free travel lanes for vaccinated passengers next month from Germany and Brunei and open up to visitors from Hong Kong...
From the surging crowd of people outside Kabul airport, a small girl is lifted up over the high perimeter wall and passed into...
SYDNEY: Australia reported its biggest one-day rise in coronavirus infections on Thursday, as authorities began doling out emergency supplies of vaccine in the...
Mumbai: Several Indian states are building facilities with more paediatric beds, plus oxygen, due to concern that children returning to school without being...
WELLINGTON: New Zealand's coronavirus cases jumped on Thursday, as questions grew about the government's response to the pandemic given the slowest vaccination rate...
Kabul: Several people were killed on Thursday in the Afghan city of Asadabad when Taliban fighters fired on people waving the national flag...
MANILA: The Philippines is allotting 45.3 billion pesos ($899 million) for COVID-19 booster shots under its 2022 budget, an official said, even as...
Kabul: Seventeen people were injured on Wednesday in a stampede at a gate to the airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a NATO...
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday the Taliban, which seized the Afghan capital on Sunday after a lightning offensive, would...
TOKYO: Record COVID-19 cases sprang up across Japan on Wednesday, media said a day after the government expanded emergency measures to fight a...
TOKYO: Japan's state of emergency restrictions are not curbing movement as effectively as in the past, according to mobility data, hurting the government's...
SYDNEY: Sydney's Delta outbreak has not peaked and residents must brace for more deaths, authorities said on Wednesday, as Australia's largest city continued...
Within 30 minutes of Hong Kong reversing its seven-day quarantine policy, Ovolo Hotels’ switchboard was swamped with calls. The operator of two facilities...
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's king will name a new prime minister as soon as possible but the appointee will have to face a confidence...