MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday withdrew his candidacy for a senate seat, the election commission's spokesperson said. Duterte's six-year term will...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday withdrew his candidacy for a senate seat, the election commission's spokesperson said. Duterte's six-year term will...
SYDNEY: U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc will produce millions of mRNA vaccines a year in Australia after agreeing to set up one of its...
Seoul: South Korea on Tuesday marked its deadliest day of the pandemic as an unrelenting, delta-driven spread stretched thin hospitals and left people...
JAKARTA: A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Tuesday triggering a tsunami warning and sending residents fleeing from their homes but causing...
AHMEDABAD, India- India's western state of Gujarat has acknowledged more COVID-19 deaths than its official tally, according to a court document filed on...
BEIJING: Major Chinese manufacturing province Zhejiang is fighting its first COVID-19 cluster this year, with hundreds of thousands of citizens in quarantine and...
Hong Kong: EightHong Kongpro-democracy activists were sentenced to up to 14 months in prison on Monday for organising, taking part in and inciting...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has confirmed its first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, in the country's most populous city of Karachi, the country's National...
JAKARTA: Indonesia will start administering COVID-19 vaccinations for children aged between 6-11 on Tuesday, a health ministry official said, as the Southeast Asian...
BEIJING: China's Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biopharmaceutical said on Monday a small laboratory test showed its COVID-19 vaccine could trigger antibodies against the Omicron...
BANGKOK: Thailand will halve to three months the time between administering a second COVID-19 vaccine shot and a booster, a health official said...
BEIJING: U.S. coffee chain Starbucks said on Monday it had shut two outlets in China and was conducting an investigation after a state-backed...
Jakarta: USSecretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Indonesia on Monday, kicking off a visit to Southeast Asia aimed at strengthening ties in...
SYDNEY: Coronavirus-free Queensland state opened its domestic borders to all vaccinated people on Monday for the first time in nearly five months, as...
Seoul: South Korea will soon roll out a pilot project to use artificial intelligence, facial recognition and thousands of CCTV cameras to track...
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday put on show what they said was the world's largest natural corundum blue sapphire, weighing 310 kilograms,...
The Philippine central bank is looking into complaints that some clients of BDO Unibank Inc., the country’s largest lender by assets, lost money...
CANBERRA: Australia said on Sunday it will shorten the wait time for people to receive a COVID-19 booster following a rise in cases...
