HONG KONG - Hong Kong authorities said on Thursday that the city's vaccine scheme would be widened to include those aged between 16...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong authorities said on Thursday that the city's vaccine scheme would be widened to include those aged between 16...
New Delhi: India and Thailand reported record daily coronavirus cases on Thursday, as a new wave of infections, combined with a shortage of...
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU - Many Indians scrambled on Thursday to secure beds in hospitals for relatives stricken with coronavirus as infections surged to a...
SEOUL- South Korea's president ordered officials on Wednesday to explore petitioning an international court over Japan's decision to release contaminated water from its...
SYDNEY - Australia's national cabinet will begin meeting twice a week from Monday to help mobilise the country's battle against COVID-19 as authorities...
Manila: The Philippines filed fresh diplomatic protests to China on Wednesday after accusing its giant neighbour of undertaking illegal fishing and massing more...
MUMBAI/HARIDWAR, India - India's new coronavirus infections reached a record on Wednesday, as crowds of pilgrims gathered for a religious festival despite oxygen...
BANGKOK - Thailand reported on Wednesday 1,335 new COVID-19 cases, the biggest daily rise since the start of the pandemic and the third...
MUMBAI: India's richest state Maharashtra will impose stringent curbs on industry and e-commerce for 15 days to slow rising coronavirus infections, its chief...
SYDNEY: New Zealand has become the first country to introduce a law that will require banks, insurers and investment managers to report the...
SEOUL: South Korea's health authorities said on Tuesday they would consider the use of coronavirus self-test kits despite their relatively low accuracy, after...
India will fast-track approvals for Covid-19 vaccines approved by governments overseas in order to have a wider pool of shots as it struggles...
TOKYO - Japan will release more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, the...
NEW DELHI/MOSCOW: India has approved the use of Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Monday, confirming...
Hong Kong plans to ease social-distancing rules for those vaccinated against the coronavirus to incentivize more people to get inoculated so the city...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte reappeared in public on Monday after an absence of nearly two weeks which had fuelled concerns about his...
JAKARTA - The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from a crashed Sriwijaya Air jet has been downloaded successfully and includes the last minutes of...
SYDNEY - A tropical cyclone on Australia's west coast destroyed several homes and cut electricity to tens of thousands of people overnight before...