Thailand will downgrade Covid-19 from a "dangerous” communicable disease to one that "needs monitoring” starting from October, as the country’s virus situation has...
Thailand will downgrade Covid-19 from a "dangerous” communicable disease to one that "needs monitoring” starting from October, as the country’s virus situation has...
Hong Kong took a much anticipated step to reduce mandatory hotel quarantine for international travelers as the city seeks to restore its position...
TAIPEI:China's military announced fresh military drills on Monday in the seas and airspace around Taiwan - a day after the scheduled end of...
SEOUL: South Korea's education minister on Monday said she would step down amid a backlash over her proposal to lower the school entry...
BEIJING: The capital of China's Hainan province has locked down its residents for 13 hours on Monday as a COVID-19 outbreak grows on...
South Korea’s education minister offered to resign over a plan to reduce the school entry age a year to five, which ignited a...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong will reduce the mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals to three days from a week, the city’s leader said...
BEIJING: China said on Sunday it carried out its fourth consecutive day of military drills in the air and sea around Taiwan in...
BEIJING/SHANGHAI: When Chinese businesswoman Yang Jing was planning this year's summer holiday in 2021, she chose the tropical southern island of Hainan because...
China’s Hainan started mass Covid-19 testing from Sunday and imposed more lockdowns as infections rise in the southern island province. Hainan reported 182...
China has shortened the length of suspensions for inbound airline flights that carry passengers infected with Covid-19, the latest sign that the nation...
Port Moresby: An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale hit the northern coasts of Papua New Guinea on Sunday. The US Geological...
TOKYO: Bells tolled in Hiroshima on Saturday as the city marked the 77th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing, with officials including...
Kabul:A bomb blast hit Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Saturday and many people were feared injured, witnesses said. The blast hit a busy shopping...
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will reshuffle his cabinet next week to address mounting issues including the coronavirus, inflation, Taiwan affairs and...
Malaysia will offer government-backed insurance plans to help compensate farmers for losses after natural disasters, as part of measures to strengthen food security....
KABUL: The Islamic State (IS) militant group on Friday claimed responsibility for a deadly blast in a Shi'ite residential area in Afghanistan's capital...
ISLAMABAD: Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities...