Loading...
The Financial Express

Search results for: Asia

Indonesia approves Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine

Indonesia approves Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine

-- 2021-04-30 16:18:01

Indonesia's drug regulator on Friday approved the COVID-19 vaccine of China's Sinopharm, which it will use in a private immunisation scheme where companies buy government-procured vaccines to inoculat...

Malaysian teen slams rape jokes by teacher in viral video

Malaysian teen slams rape jokes by teacher in viral video

-- 2021-04-30 16:07:34

Malaysian teenager Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam came home from school last week and posted a video on TikTok, taking a male teacher to task over an alleged joke about rape during class, reports Reuters.&n...

Thousands of Myanmar villagers poised to flee violence to Thailand, group says

Thousands of Myanmar villagers poised to flee violence to Thailand, group says

-- 2021-04-30 16:01:10

Thousands of ethnic Karen villagers in Myanmar are poised to cross into Thailand if, as expected, fighting intensifies between the Myanmar army and Karen insurgents, joining those who have already esc...

India posts another record rise in Covid-19 cases

India posts another record rise in Covid-19 cases

Reuters 2021-04-30 13:22:14

All vaccination centres in India’s financial capital of Mumbai were shut for three days starting Friday due to a shortage of vaccines, said authorities, as the country posted another record dail...

Dozens die in stampede Israeli religious bonfire festival

Dozens die in stampede Israeli religious bonfire festival

REUTERS 2021-04-30 10:19:56

Dozens of people were killed in a crush at a religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, medics said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a "heavy disaster". Tens of thousands...

A desperate search for oxygen in Delhi ends in grief

A desperate search for oxygen in Delhi ends in grief

REUTERS 2021-04-29 21:07:54

Shruti Saha had spent hours searching for somewhere in New Delhi to refill an oxygen canister when she heard that her frantic efforts had been in vain: her mother had died of COVID-19. A ferocious se...

Rockets fired at two Myanmar air bases, no casualties

Rockets fired at two Myanmar air bases, no casualties

REUTERS 2021-04-29 21:03:45

Unidentified attackers fired rockets at two Myanmar air bases on Thursday but there were no casualties and only minor damage in another sign of deteriorating security since the military overth...

Why India's Covid crisis is a global problem

Why India's Covid crisis is a global problem

CNN 2021-04-29 20:26:50

There is a split scenario unfolding as the world battles the pandemic. In countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, jubilant, newly-vaccinated people hug their loved ones after a long...

Mumbai gravedigger works 24-hour shifts as Covid death toll soars

Mumbai gravedigger works 24-hour shifts as Covid death toll soars

REUTERS 2021-04-29 16:43:21

Two or three months into the COVID-19 crisis, Mumbai gravedigger Sayyed Munir Kamruddin stopped wearing personal protective equipment and gloves. "I'm not scared of COVID, I've worked with courage. I...

India's coronavirus infections surge past 18 million

India's coronavirus infections surge past 18 million

Reuters 2021-04-29 12:21:41

India reported on Thursday a record rise in coronavirus cases and deaths over the last 24 hours, with its overall caseload rising above 18 million. With 379,257 new cases and 3,645 new deaths, India'...

India's first 3D-printed home offers affordable housing 'solution'

India's first 3D-printed home offers affordable housing 'solution'

Thomson Reuters Foundation 2021-04-28 15:45:27

India's first 3D-printed home may provide a solution to the country's shortage of affordable housing, using a technology that is quicker, cheaper and more efficient than traditional construction, hous...

Pakistan records highest-ever Covid deaths in a day

Pakistan records highest-ever Covid deaths in a day

-- 2021-04-28 15:36:12

Pakistani authorities on Wednesday reported 201 deaths from coronavirus, the country’s highest single-day toll of the pandemic. According to National Command and Control Center, 5,292 new cases...

India’s Covid death toll surges past 200,000

India’s Covid death toll surges past 200,000

-- 2021-04-28 12:17:15

India crossed a grim milestone Wednesday of 200,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a devastating surge of new infections tears through dense cities and rural areas alike and overwhelms health care...

Myanmar guerrillas capture govt base; airstrikes follow

Myanmar guerrillas capture govt base; airstrikes follow

AP 2021-04-27 20:15:19

Ethnic Karen guerrillas said they captured a Myanmar army base Tuesday near the border with Thailand, representing a morale-boosting action for those opposing the military's takeover of the country's...

Medical students in India feel betrayed

Medical students in India feel betrayed

AP 2021-04-27 19:43:41

Since the beginning of the week, Dr. Siddharth Tara, a postgraduate medical student at New Delhi's government-run Hindu Rao Hospital, has had a fever and persistent headache. He took a COVID-19 test,...

Rebels attack Myanmar army outpost along border with Thailand

Rebels attack Myanmar army outpost along border with Thailand

-- 2021-04-27 17:28:43

Ethnic minority Karen insurgents attacked a Myanmar army outpost near the Thai border on Tuesday in some of the most intense clashes since a military coup nearly three months ago threw the country int...

‘Unnecessary rush to hospitals, big gatherings worsen India COVID crisis’

‘Unnecessary rush to hospitals, big gatherings worsen India COVID crisis’

-- 2021-04-27 17:22:40

People in India are rushing unnecessarily to hospital, exacerbating a crisis over surging COVID-19 infections caused by mass gatherings, more contagious variants and low vaccination rates, the World H...

Gilead to ship 450,000 remdesivir vials to India

Gilead to ship 450,000 remdesivir vials to India

Reuters 2021-04-27 16:39:02

Gilead Sciences Inc said on Monday it will give India at least 450,000 vials of its antiviral drug remdesivir and help boost production, as the world's second-most populous country reels from surging...

First UK aid reaches India as Covid deaths mount

First UK aid reaches India as Covid deaths mount

-- 2021-04-27 16:03:00

Medical supplies from the UK arrived in India on Tuesday - the first international shipment aimed at stemming a devastating Covid-19 surge. Ventilators and oxygen equipment landed in Delhi, but f...

Medical supplies flow into India as COVID-19 deaths near 200,000

Medical supplies flow into India as COVID-19 deaths near 200,000

-- 2021-04-27 16:01:26

Vital medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of oxygen supplies and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000...

India’s new Covid-19 cases still stay above 300,000, army called to help

India’s new Covid-19 cases still stay above 300,000, army called to help

REUTERS 2021-04-27 12:29:53

India's coronavirus death toll neared the bleak milestone of 200,000 with another 2,771 fatalities reported on Tuesday, while its armed forces pledged urgent medical aid to help battle the staggering...

Mutant strains from India fuel infection surge in Nepal

Mutant strains from India fuel infection surge in Nepal

-- 2021-04-26 19:57:02

Authorities in Nepal were grappling to contain the rapid rise of COVID-19 cases with experts fearing that thousands of people in the Himalayan state have caught the more infectious mutant strains emer...

Saudi Arabia to reduce cost of recruiting Bangladeshi domestic workers

Saudi Arabia to reduce cost of recruiting Bangladeshi domestic workers

-- 2021-04-26 19:30:31

Saudi Arabia wants to reduce the cost of recruiting domestic workers from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. It follows similar measures undertaken to lower the cost of recruiting from the Philippines,...

Israel examining heart inflammation cases in people who received Pfizer vaccine

Israel examining heart inflammation cases in people who received Pfizer vaccine

-- 2021-04-26 15:43:08

Israel's Health Ministry said on Sunday it is examining a small number of cases of heart inflammation in people who had received Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine, though it has not yet drawn any conclusions....

India reports 352,991 daily Covid cases, a global record

India reports 352,991 daily Covid cases, a global record

Reuters 2021-04-26 11:21:08

India on Monday set a global record for a rise in daily coronavirus cases for a fifth straight day, while deaths from Covid-19 also jumped by an all-time high over the last 24 hours. With 352,991 new...

Missing Indonesian submarine found broken into three parts

Missing Indonesian submarine found broken into three parts

-- 2021-04-25 20:16:00

A missing Indonesian submarine was found, broken into at least three parts, deep in the Bali Sea, army and navy officials said on Sunday, as the president sent condolences to relatives of the 53 crew....

India sets Covid-19 infection record for fourth straight day

India sets Covid-19 infection record for fourth straight day

CNN 2021-04-25 20:13:05

India reported 349,691 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, the fourth day in a row the country has set a world record for daily infections during the coronavirus pandemic, according to government and s...

At least eight dead in glacier avalanche in India’s Himalayan state

At least eight dead in glacier avalanche in India’s Himalayan state

REUTERS 2021-04-25 16:44:38

At least eight people died and 384 were rescued after a glacier broke triggering an avalanche close to the Indo-China border in the Indian state of Uttarakhand on Friday, a government official said....

82 killed in Baghdad hospital fire

82 killed in Baghdad hospital fire

AP 2021-04-25 16:24:24

Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that 82 people died and 110 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severe coronavirus...

Myanmar activists slam ASEAN-junta consensus, vow to continue protests

Myanmar activists slam ASEAN-junta consensus, vow to continue protests

-- 2021-04-25 15:43:59

Myanmar's pro-democracy activists sharply criticised an agreement between the country's junta chief and Southeast Asian leaders to end the nation's violent post-coup crisis and vowed on Sunday to cont...