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-- 2020-05-20 14:36:59
India will run more special trains and buses to allow millions of distressed migrant workers to leave big cities, the federal government said on Tuesday. Workers are walking long distances to their h...
Reuters 2020-05-20 12:35:31
Taiwan cannot accept becoming part of China under its “one country, two systems” offer of autonomy, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday, in a strong rejection of China’s soverei...
Reuters 2020-05-20 11:15:53
Brazil’s daily death toll from the new coronavirus jumped to a record 1,179 on Tuesday as President Jair Bolsonaro doubled down on chloroquine as a possible remedy and US leader Donald Trump s...
-- 2020-05-20 11:05:01
About 91 per cent of China's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) had resumed operation as of Monday after disruptions caused by COVID-19, official data showed. Some 93 per cent of SMEs in the m...
Reuters 2020-05-20 10:21:01
South Korean high schools opened on Wednesday for the first time this year, with mask-wearing seniors returning to class in the vanguard of a phased plan to reopen all schools under strict protocols t...
Reuters 2020-05-19 20:28:02
South Asian nations are scrambling to repatriate hundreds of thousands of migrants stuck abroad without work due to the coronavirus crisis - a huge challenge that risks sparking social unrest and spre...
Xinhua 2020-05-19 17:00:26
Chinese health authority said Tuesday that it received reports of six new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Monday, of which three were imported cases reported in the Inner Mongolia Aut...
Reuters 2020-05-19 16:15:49
In a wooden shack in the Gaza Strip, a 13-year-old girl holds classes for neighbourhood children who have missed out on their studies since schools were closed in March due to the novel coronavirus cr...
REUTERS 2020-05-19 13:53:52
Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the government on Monday to lift some of the remaining restrictions imposed on business to halt the spread of the coronavirus, even as the country recorded a ris...
Reuters 2020-05-19 11:46:39
US President Donald Trump threatened on Monday (local time) to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if it did not commit to improvements within 30 days, and to reconsider t...
REUTERS 2020-05-19 10:11:45
The number of coronavirus cases in India surged past 100,000 on Tuesday, with the rate of growth of new infections showing little sign of slowing despite a strict weeks-long lockdown. India’s H...
-- 2020-05-18 20:51:04
US President Donald Trump has said his administration was considering numerous proposals about the World Health Organisation, including one in which Washington would pay about 10 per cent of its forme...
-- 2020-05-18 20:35:57
The European Union may give an initial green light in the coming days for sale of the drug remdesivir as a COVID-19 treatment, the head of its medicines agency said on Monday, fast-tracking the drug t...
Reuters 2020-05-18 16:11:10
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 342 to 174,697, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Monday. The tally showed deaths rose by 2...
REUTERS 2020-05-18 16:04:43
Italian shops, hairdressers and restaurants finally threw open their doors on Monday as the country sped up efforts to bounce back from the coronavirus crisis after a 10-week lockdown. Customers coul...
-- 2020-05-18 15:43:57
The mayor of Brazil's largest city, São Paulo, has said its health system could collapse as demand grows for emergency beds to deal with coronavirus cases. Bruno Covas said the city's public h...
-- 2020-05-18 14:26:41
India began evacuating thousands of villagers and halted port operations ahead of a cyclone expected to hit its east coast this week, officials said on Monday, piling pressure on emergency services gr...
Reuters 2020-05-18 13:25:36
Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand’s most popular prime minister in a century, a Newshub-Reid Research poll showed on Monday, thanks to her COVID-19 response that made the country among the most...
-- 2020-05-17 21:07:00
Former US President Barack Obama has criticised his successor Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis. In an online address to graduating college students, he said the pandemic had shown th...
-- 2020-05-17 20:58:30
Australia urged China on Sunday to respond to its requests to discuss easing tensions between the two trading partners after Canberra called for an international enquiry into the origins of the novel...
-- 2020-05-17 17:35:48
China’s ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, was found dead in his home in a Tel Aviv suburb on Sunday, an Israeli police spokesman said. The spokesman did not comment on the cause of death of ambassa...
-- 2020-05-17 16:45:33
Nepal’s health authorities confirmed the country’s first death from coronavirus on Saturday. The 29-year-old woman died while being taken to a hospital on the outskirt of Kathmandu, Nepal...
Reuters 2020-05-17 15:22:08
Indonesia reported 489 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, taking the total to 17,514. Indonesia also reported 59 deaths from the COVID-19, the disease caused by the new virus, bringing the toll to...
Reuters 2020-05-17 14:07:58
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte outlined a further loosening of movement restrictions on Saturday (local time), including opening borders to travellers from Europe from next month to unwind one...
REUTERS 2020-05-17 13:16:08
India should speak with Taliban militants if it feels that it will help the peace process, Pakistan's envoy to Washington said on Saturday, after a series of attacks in Afghanistan raised questions ab...
REUTERS 2020-05-17 11:39:18
The number of coronavirus cases in Saudi Arabia topped 50,000 on Saturday, the health ministry said. A ministry official reported 2,840 new cases, taking the cumulative total to 51,980. That was up f...
-- 2020-05-17 10:33:28
New York’s new confirmed COVID-19 cases are predominantly coming from people who left their homes to shop, exercise or socialise, rather than from essential workers, Governor Andrew Cuomo said o...
-- 2020-05-16 23:26:23
Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested on Saturday near Paris after 26 years on the run, the French justice mini...
-- 2020-05-16 17:27:08
A heavy rain hit Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, on Friday. Vehicles were seen moving on a flooded road in Colombo, reports Xinhua. Workers were draining water out of flooded roads in the city.
-- 2020-05-16 16:41:10
The global death toll from coronavirus pandemic reached 308,642 as of Saturday morning. Since first reported in China in December last year, coronavirus has so far infected 4,628,228 people globally,...
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