KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Thursday announced tighter restrictions on movement and businesses in the capital Kuala Lumpur and neighbouring Selangor state as new...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Thursday announced tighter restrictions on movement and businesses in the capital Kuala Lumpur and neighbouring Selangor state as new...
NEW DELHI: Germany and Spain are among nine countries in Europe who have told India they will accept travellers inoculated with Covishield, the...
PHUKET, Thailand: Hundreds of vaccinated foreign tourists arrived on the Thai resort island of Phuket on Thursday, the first visitors to its beaches...
MANILA: Philippine volcanologists raised on Thursday the alert status of a volcano near the Philippine capital, after it spewed a one-kilometre (0.62 mile)...
TOKYO: Balancing a new software programming job and caring for a toddler in Tokyo, LaShawn Toyoda saw increasing confusion in her social media...
BENGALURU: Indian drugmaker Zydus Cadila said on Thursday it has applied for emergency use approval of its three-dose COVID-19 vaccine that showed efficacy...
SEOUL, South Korea: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un berated top officials for failures in coronavirus prevention that caused a "great crisis,” using...
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia on Wednesday reported record daily rises in coronavirus deaths and cases, reaching what its government called the "red line" in...
DHAKA: Bangladesh is deploying army troops from Thursday to enforce a strict lockdown amid a record spike in coronavirus cases driven by the...
MANILA, Philippines: Left-wing activists and relatives of people killed in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drug campaign marked the start of his last year...
The number of Indonesian children contracting the coronavirus has almost tripled since May, with infant deaths from COVID-19 rising sharply as the country...
SEOUL: South Korea's capital Seoul and its neighbouring regions will delay by a week the relaxation of social distancing rules due to a...
SYDNEY: Australian officials extended lockdown and social distancing measures to more of the country on Wednesday, with four major cities already under a...
Myanmar is negotiating to buy seven million doses of Russia's Sputnik COVID-19 vaccine, the head of its junta said, as authorities in the...
Indian drugmaker Cipla Ltd has received regulatory approval to distribute partner Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine in the country, a senior government official said...
MANILA: The Philippines will receive one million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines next month provided by Japan, its ambassador to the Southeast Asian...
MUMBAI: India's western state of Maharashtra is training thousands of health workers in how to care for children afflicted with COVID-19 as a...
SYDNEY: Australia reported a slight rise in COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, while officials in several states tightened movement curbs and pushed for vaccinations...
