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-- 2020-05-01 16:24:34
The speaker of Pakistan's National Assembly said late on Thursday that he had tested positive for COVID-19, after hosting an iftar dinner to celebrate Ramadan, and meeting Prime Minister Imran Khan an...
-- 2020-05-01 11:03:17
The Australian government will meet on Friday to discuss how sport can restart as the number of new coronavirus cases dwindles and states begin to relax restrictions on social gatherings, two sources...
-- 2020-04-30 16:55:07
Saudis began tentatively returning to shopping malls and open-air markets on Wednesday after authorities relaxed restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, reports Reuters. S...
-- 2020-04-30 14:34:33
Japan is preparing to extend its state of emergency over the novel coronavirus, originally set to end on May 6, for about a month, government sources told Reuters on Thursday, even as some other count...
Reuters 2020-04-29 16:55:19
A fire at a construction site in South Korea killed at least 25 people and injured another seven on Wednesday, Yonhap news agency reported, citing fire authorities. All of the victims were constructi...
-- 2020-04-29 16:24:48
The departing UN human rights envoy for Myanmar has said its military may be committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Rakhine and Chin states, where fighting between government troops and...
Reuters 2020-04-29 10:52:09
A veteran of organising elections and pilgrimages in stifling dust and heat, Indian bureaucrat Pranabjyoti Nath sees a precious opportunity in the coronavirus crisis - documenting the country's legion...
-- 2020-04-28 21:48:16
Buy a mask and let his family go hungry, or buy food and go out into the crowded city without one - that is the stark choice facing Hayatullah Khan, an Afghan labourer whose daily earnings have fallen...
Xinhua 2020-04-28 16:08:02
No coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths were reported on the Chinese mainland for the 13th straight day until Monday, the health authorities said Tuesday. The overall confirmed cases on the mainland had rea...
Reuters 2020-04-28 16:03:47
Kim Jong Un may have missed a key holiday on April 15 because of concerns over the coronavirus, not because he is ill, South Korea’s minister for North Korean affairs said on Tuesday. North K...
REUTERS 2020-04-28 15:55:13
China has criticised India’s decision to stop using Chinese testing kits for the novel coronavirus because of quality issues as unfair and irresponsible in the latest strain in their ties. The...
-- 2020-04-28 14:00:41
Malaysia's Deputy Health Minister Noor Azmi Ghazali and Perak executive council member Razman Zakaria have been jointly charged with 13 others at the Magistrate's Court after they were all pictured ha...
Reuters 2020-04-28 13:18:15
Claims that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan have no basis in fact, the head of the lab told Reuters news agency, adding that there were still no conclu...
Reuters 2020-04-28 10:35:21
For 15 years, Siti Zabedah Abdul Wahab’s family food business has opened for one month a year, selling murtabak, a pan-fried bread stuffed with meat, at Malaysia’s popular Ramadan bazaars....
-- 2020-04-28 10:32:43
As more Japanese restaurants shut down and people stay home during the country’s state of emergency to fight the coronavirus, experts say rats may be expanding their search for food to deserted...
-- 2020-04-27 21:30:40
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Monday asked state governments of the country to stop using coronavirus testing equipment brought from China because of conflicting results. More than hal...
Xinhua 2020-04-27 18:39:30
Vietnam reports no new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the third day in a row, with its total confirmed cases remaining at 270, according to its Ministry of Health. The country on Monday announced that thr...
AP 2020-04-27 16:41:21
Iraq is planning painful cuts in social benefits relied on by millions of government workers. Saudi Arabia will likely have to delay mega-projects. Egypt and Lebanon face a blow as their workers in th...
-- 2020-04-27 16:21:22
Researchers at a Hong Kong university say they have developed an antiviral coating which could provide 90 days of "significant" protection against bacteria and viruses such as the one causing COVID-19...
-- 2020-04-27 16:10:50
New Zealand says it has stopped community transmission of COVID-19, effectively eliminating the virus. With new cases in single figures for several days - one on Sunday – country’s Prime...
Reuters 2020-04-27 11:58:30
It is a Ramadan like never before for Muslims across Asia as mosques that would normally be packed for prayers are deserted and in some places locked up as governments enforced measures to stem the sp...
-- 2020-04-27 11:39:22
Saudi Arabia will no longer impose the death penalty on people who committed crimes while still minors, the country's Human Rights Commission says. The announcement, citing a royal decree by King Sal...
Reuters 2020-04-27 11:07:51
South Korean officials are calling for caution amid reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may be ill or is being isolated because of coronavirus concerns, emphasising that they have detected no...
-- 2020-04-27 10:57:17
More than a million Australians rushed to download an app designed to help medical workers and state governments trace close contacts of COVID-19 patients, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s app...
REUTERS 2020-04-27 09:49:34
A Saudi Arabia-led coalition said on Monday all parties need to return to the status that existed before the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen declared an emergency in Aden, according to a...
-- 2020-04-26 21:38:04
Saudi Arabia eased curfews on Sunday across the country but kept 24-hour lockdown in place in the city of Mecca and neighbourhoods previously put in isolation to curb the spread of the new coronavirus...
Reuters 2020-04-26 21:28:09
Iran plans to reopen mosques in parts of the country that have been consistently free of the coronavirus outbreak as restrictions on Iranians gradually ease, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday....
-- 2020-04-26 20:05:22
An Indian woman was allegedly gang raped in a school in the desert state of Rajasthan where she had been quarantined for a night by the police amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, a police offici...
-- 2020-04-26 19:54:26
Afghan authorities are struggling to implement lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in a province bordering Iran where the outbreak is widening due to an influx of Afghan returnees and me...
-- 2020-04-26 16:58:56
The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the global coronavirus pandemic began, now has no remaining cases in its hospitals, a health official told reporters on Sunday. The novel coronavirus is believed to h...
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