MANILA: Philippine former president Benigno Aquino was laid to rest in a Manila cemetery on Saturday beside his parents, two of the Southeast...
MANILA: Philippine former president Benigno Aquino was laid to rest in a Manila cemetery on Saturday beside his parents, two of the Southeast...
MUMBAI/BENGALURU: India's richest state on Friday ordered malls and cinema halls to close as it scrambles to control a more transmissible variant of...
BANGKOK: Thailand will close hundreds of construction sites and prevent workers from leaving their camps for a month, its prime minister said on...
JAKARTA - Indonesia is shifting medical emergency units in Jakarta to tents outside hospitals to create more room for COVID-19 beds, the health...
BEIJING - Antibodies triggered by two Chinese COVID-19 vaccines are less effective against the Delta variant compared with other strains but the shots...
SYDNEY - Downtown Sydney and the city's eastern suburbs, which include Bondi Beach, will go into a one week lockdown from midnight Friday...
Hong Kong’s plan to shorten quarantine sparked a wave of searches on travel websites by residents desperate to fly abroad, even if it...
KATHMANDU/MUMBAI: Bhutan's Prime Minister on Thursday said he "has no problem" in mixing-and-matching COVID-19 vaccine doses to immunize a population of about 700,000...
Sydney: Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), reported a double digit rise in new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 for the...
TAIPEI: Taiwan is in talks with international bodies about COVID-19 vaccine passports, the head of its Centres for Disease Control said on Thursday,...
Thailand's food and drug administration on Thursday announced it had approved the Pfizer /BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use. The approval makes it...
SINGAPORE: Singapore said on Thursday it expects to almost double the number of doses of coronavirus vaccines it administers each day to 80,000...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong will ban passenger flights from Indonesia from Friday, deeming the country's arrivals "extremely high risk" for the coronavirus. The...
Benigno "Noynoy” Aquino III, the former Philippine president who oversaw the fastest period of growth since the 1970s and challenged China’s expansive territorial...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong cyber activists are backing up articles by pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily on censorship-proof blockchain platforms after the newspaper was...
BEIJING: Electric-vehicle maker Tesla Inc said on Wednesday it has opened its first charging station in China with its own solar and energy...
LAHORE, Pakistan: A bomb attack in a residential area of Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore killed four people on Wednesday, including a child,...
TAIPEI: Taiwan will extend its coronavirus curbs by two more weeks until July 12, as the situation has yet to reach a point...