KO LOSIN, Thailand: Forty divers have removed abandoned fishing nets covering coral reefs in a protected area in the Gulf of Thailand in...
KO LOSIN, Thailand: Forty divers have removed abandoned fishing nets covering coral reefs in a protected area in the Gulf of Thailand in...
JAKARTA: Indonesia will tighten social restrictions for two weeks starting Tuesday, a government minister said, in a bid to contain a surge in...
Tokyo: Olympics organisers on Monday capped the number of spectators at 10,000 for each venue of the 2020 Tokyo Games, days after experts...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong's government said on Monday that it would shorten the quarantine period for vaccinated people arriving in the city to...
HANOI: Vietnam has received a shipment of 500,000 Sinopharm vaccine doses donated by China, the health ministry said on Sunday, as the country...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: The U.N. representative in Sri Lanka said the sinking of a container ship that caught fire while transporting chemicals off...
Kabul: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has replaced his defence and interior ministers and the army chief of staff amid rising casualties among Afghanistan's...
MELBOURNE: Australia's state of Queensland recorded one locally acquired coronavirus infection on Sunday, the latest streak of small outbreaks that have been plaguing...
Seoul: South Korea will relax social distancing rules and allow private gatherings of up to six people in the greater Seoul area from...
Manila: The Philippine government has signed a supply agreement for 40 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghanistan's is racing to ramp up supplies of oxygen as a deadly third surge of COVID-19 worsens, a senior health official...
The airport in Shenzhen, a Chinese city neighboring Hong Kong, tightened controls on entry to its facilities after a restaurant employee was found...
A Myanmar military truck exploded in one of two blasts near an office of an army-backed political party in the country's biggest city...
Colombo: A team of technical experts from European Union are helping Sri Lanka's government assess the environmental damage caused by the sinking of...
SEOUL - Some 760,000 South Koreans who have received a first dose of AstraZeneca Plc's COVID-19 vaccine will be offered Pfizer Inc's vaccine...
BENGALURU - The third wave of coronavirus infections is likely to hit India by October, and although it will be better controlled than...
WELLINGTON - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern received the her first shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, as the country steps up...
HANOI - Vietnam on Thursday called on the World Health Organization to speed up the COVAX vaccine drive as the country's new daily...
