DHAKA, Bangladesh – Despite mounting fatalities and infections across the country, Bangladesh on Wednesday lifted its strict coronavirus curbs imposed for over a...
DHAKA, Bangladesh – Despite mounting fatalities and infections across the country, Bangladesh on Wednesday lifted its strict coronavirus curbs imposed for over a...
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has administered at least one coronavirus vaccine dose to half of its population, among the highest rates in Asia, official...
India is in talks to buy 50 million doses of Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine, the Wall Street Journal...
NEW DELHI: Two people have died and at least 12 were injured after a landslide in the mountainous Indian state of Himachal Pradesh...
Washington: The Taliban could isolate Afghanistan's capital Kabul in 30 days and potentially take it over in 90 days, a U.S. defense official...
SEOUL: South Korea is implementing for the first time an electronic travel authorisation (ETA) system for overseas visitors from September, as the COVID-19...
Manila: Vaccination centres across the Philippine capital Manila are trying to speed up inoculation rates, including by staying open 24 hours, to help...
New Delhi: Every weekday four buses head into the New Delhi slums to give the children of migrants, labourers, ragpickers and scavengers a...
Melbourne: The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has labelled the government of South Australia "cruel and uncaring" for imposing an extra two-week quarantine for...
Beijing: China's tighter social restrictions to fight its latest COVID-19 outbreak, now in its fourth week and involving more than a dozen cities,...
Kabul: Afghan officials say three more provincial capitals have fallen to the Taliban, putting nine out of the country's 34 in the insurgents'...
Singapore said 70% of its population has been fully vaccinated, and 79% have received at least one dose, giving the city-state one of...
WELLINGTON: New Zealand should keep its borders shut until early 2022 and reopen only after the vast majority of its adults have been...
LAHORE, Pakistan - A provincial education minister in Pakistan on Tuesday asked teachers working at private and public schools in the eastern Punjab...
Twitter Inc. has complied with India’s new information technology rules, a lawyer representing the federal government told a Delhi court Tuesday. The government’s...
MATHURA, India: After an evening walk under overcast skies with rains not far away, elephants rescued from circuses and temples in India are...
Japan has administered more than 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines and surpassed the U.S. in the proportion of elderly fully vaccinated, according...
SEOUL: South Korea recorded more than 2,000 new coronavirus infections in the last 21 hours, Yonhap News Agency reported on Tuesday, an almost...
