DHAKA: At least one person died and dozens went missing after a small ferry packed with passengers collided with a cargo vessel and...
DHAKA: At least one person died and dozens went missing after a small ferry packed with passengers collided with a cargo vessel and...
SEOUL: South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, breaking with decades of tradition, said on Sunday he will move the presidential office from the Blue...
TAIPEI, Taiwan: Hong Kong's leader said Sunday that the government would consider lifting strict social distancing measures as new COVID-19 infections in the...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghanistan is the unhappiest country in the world - even before the Taliban swept to power last August. That's according to...
China signed new rules on the supervision of military equipment purchase contracts on Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency said, part of long-term...
BEIJING: China's national health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first recorded rise in the death toll since January 2021, as...
Singapore’s omicron wave has "clearly peaked” and is fast subsiding, health minister Ong Ye Kung said Friday, highlighting a development that could pave...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s cumulative coronavirus infections have exceeded 1 million as the city grapples with a widespread outbreak that has killed more...
BANGKOK: Visitors vaccinated for COVID-19 will no longer need a test before traveling to Thailand starting April 1, health officials said Friday. Visitors...
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed to fight "till the last ball” as more lawmakers from his ruling Tehreek-e-Insaf party deserted him, signaling...
TOKYO- Japan will impose sanctions on 15 Russian individuals and nine organisations, it said on Friday, among them defence officials and the state-owned...
SHANGHAI- The Chinese commercial hub of Shanghai is pushing ahead with a mass testing initiative as it tries to curb a new spike...
BEIJING: Five districts in China's southern city of Shenzhen that have achieved "community-wide COVID-19 dynamic clearance" can restart work and resume public transport...
Seoul: South Korea recorded a record 621,328 new daily COVID-19 cases and a daily record 429 deaths, authorities said on Thursday, as the...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Thursday she would review COVID restrictions in the coming days, as she understands people...
TOKYO: Residents in Fukushima and Miyagi were cleaning their homes after a sleepless night following a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck off the...
TOKYO- A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 jolted Japan's northeast coast on Wednesday and left hundreds of thousands of residents in...
China-based Sinovac Biotech Ltd's COVID-19 vaccine was 38.2% effective in preventing infections during the Omicron wave in children aged three to five years,...
