Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping urged officials to take steps to protect lives on Monday in his first public remarks on Covid since...
Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping urged officials to take steps to protect lives on Monday in his first public remarks on Covid since...
Lahore, Pakistan: Cyclists in Pakistan's smog-smothered Lahore are enduring hazardous pollution levels, abuse from drivers and social stigma in a campaign to get...
Seoul: South Korea scrambled warplanes and attack helicopters and fired warning shots on Monday after North Koreandronesviolated its airspace, the South Korean military...
Manila: Christmas Day floods in the Philippines forced the evacuation of nearly 46,000 people from their homes, civil defence officials said Monday. Eight...
Kabul: Several foreign aid groups announced on Sunday they were suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the country's Taliban rulers ordered all NGOs...
Brussels: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Sunday strongly condemned Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration's order to ban women from working at all local...
Kabul: Three foreign aid groups announced on Sunday they were suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the country's Taliban rulers ordered all NGOs...
Male: The Maldives criminal court on Sunday sentenced former president Abdulla Yameen to 11 years in prison and fined him $5m after finding...
Beijing: China will no longer publish daily figures for Covid-19 cases and deaths, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday, ending a...
Beijing / Taipei: China's military said it had conducted "strike drills" in the sea and airspace around Taiwan on Sunday in response to...
Kathmandu: A former Maoist guerrilla who led a decade-long insurgency against Nepal's Hindu monarchy was on Sunday appointed prime minister for a third...
Banda Aceh, Indonesia: A broken-down boat carrying 57 Rohingya refugees landed on Indonesia's western coast on Sunday after a month at sea, police...
Beijing: China's Zhejiang, a big industrial province near Shanghai, is battling around a million new daily COVID-19 infections, a number expected to double...
Kabul: Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) to stop female employees from coming to work, according...
Suva: Fiji parliament approved the appointment of Sitiveni Rabuka as Fiji's prime minister after a coalition of parties voted to install him, signaling...
New Delhi: India has mandated a COVID-19 negative test report for travelers arriving from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand, the...
NEW DELHI: India will end its COVID-19 era free food programme on December31 and replace it with a cheaper programme that will save...
BEIJING/Shanghai: China is expecting a peak in COVID-19 infections within a week, a health official said, with authorities predicting extra strain on the...
