Colombo: Sri Lanka announced Tuesday the first large-scale Chinese investment in manufacturing in the country, a $300-million tyre factory near a strategic deep-sea...
Colombo: Sri Lanka announced Tuesday the first large-scale Chinese investment in manufacturing in the country, a $300-million tyre factory near a strategic deep-sea...
Jakarta, Indonesia: Indonesia's highest Muslim clerical body is expected to issue a halal certification for the experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed by China-based Sinovac ...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong said on Tuesday the city would once again ban dining in restaurants after 6 p.m. (1000 GMT) and close...
WUHAN: Hundreds of shoppers pack a wet market on a December weekday morning in the Chinese city of Wuhan, jostling to buy fresh...
Bhubaneswar, India: Indian authorities are investigating if organochlorines used as pesticides or in mosquito control caused the death of one person and hospitalisation...
New York: A second US federal judge has suspended a Trump administration executive order threatening to ban TikTok in the United States. The...
LONDON: Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother from Britain, has become the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine outside...
Chuck Yeager, the steely "Right Stuff" test pilot who took aviation to the doorstep of space by becoming the first person to break...
Sao Paulo - Sao Paulo state, Latin America's coronavirus epicenter, will launch a Covid-19 vaccination campaign in January, the governor said Monday, though...
LONDON - Prince Harry is suing the publishers of a British newspaper for libel, joining his wife Meghan who is separately suing them...
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday to ensure that priority access for COVID-19 vaccines procured by the...
ROME - Italy's Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese discovered during a cabinet meeting on Monday that she had coronavirus, forcing her to abandon the...
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK - California compelled much of the state to close shop and stay home on Monday and New York ordered hospitals...
GENEVA/ZURICH - The World Health Organization does not foresee mandatory vaccinations being introduced around the world to stem the spread of the coronavirus,...
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU - India is accelerating its review of COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca to authorise for emergency use, a...
BERLIN - German leaders came out on Monday in favour of stricter measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, a few days...
Washington - President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named the team tasked with turning around the United States' floundering efforts to quell the Covid-19...
OTTAWA - Canada will get up to 249,000 doses of Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine before the end of December, assuming it is approved...
