SINGAPORE: Singapore began vaccinating healthcare workers with Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, kicking off one of Asia's first inoculation programmes against a pandemic...
SINGAPORE: Singapore began vaccinating healthcare workers with Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, kicking off one of Asia's first inoculation programmes against a pandemic...
BEIJING: A COVID-19 vaccine developed by a Beijing firm linked to Sinopharm has a protection rate of 79.34% against the disease, the firm...
SEOUL - Moderna Inc said on Tuesday it was in discussions with the South Korean government to potentially provide 40 million or more...
BANGKOK: Thailand warned on Tuesday that more intensive measures might be necessary to halt its worst coronavirus outbreak yet and urged the public...
BEIJING: Beijing sealed off 10 areas of its northeastern Shunyi district on Tuesday, the first lockdown in the Chinese capital since the last...
Bhashan Char, Bangladesh: Four Bangladesh navy ships on Tuesday took the second and biggest group of Rohingya Muslims yet from crowded refugee camps...
JAKARTA: Indonesia is finalising deals to secure 50 million doses of coronavirus vaccines from drugmakers Pfizer and AstraZeneca, the new health minister said...
SEOUL: American troops stationed in South Korea received the first doses of coronavirus vaccine to be administered in the country on Tuesday, as...
MANILA: The Philippines will ban travellers from 19 countries and territories until mid-January as a measure to keep out a new variant of...
Bengaluru: India has found six people who returned from Britain in recent weeks infected with a more infectious strain of the coronavirus that...
TOKYO - Japan on Monday detected a coronavirus variant found in South Africa, the government said, the first such discovery in a nation...
Taipei: A second Taiwan-born giant panda made her media debut on Monday, clambering over a wooden climbing frame and playing with sawdust to...
MANILA: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte signed on Monday a 4.5 trillion pesos ($93.7 billion) budget for next year, the country's largest yet, to...
NEW DELHI: The Serum Institute of India, the local maker of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, said on Monday it expected the British and...
Beijing/Singapore: Fragmental releases of efficacy data for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac could undermine confidence in the shot, experts warned, as...
Shanghai: A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at...
MANILA: Some Philippine soldiers and cabinet ministers have already received COVID-19 vaccine injections, officials said on Monday, despite an absence of regulatory approval...
JAKARTA: International visitors will be barred from entering Indonesia for a two-week period to try to keep out a new potentially more contagious...
