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-- 2020-05-22 14:20:38
The number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases has risen to 50,694 with 1,067 deaths in Pakistan, according to the data updated by the country's health ministry Friday morning. A total of 2,603...
Reuters 2020-05-22 13:27:17
India registered some 6,000 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday, the country’s biggest jump in 24 hours, as New Delhi eases a nationwide lockdown and airlines prepare to resume some dom...
AP 2020-05-22 13:12:25
The family of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi announced on Friday they have forgiven his Saudi killers, giving legal reprieve to the five government agents convicted of his murder who&...
-- 2020-05-21 20:02:46
At least 72 people were killed in eastern India after a powerful cyclone tore through coastal areas and neighbouring Bangladesh, a state chief minister said on Thursday. The cyclone struck the state...
-- 2020-05-21 16:42:32
Asian shares stepped back slightly and US stock futures fell on Thursday as lingering caution about the long-term impact of the coronavirus outbreak offset some of this week’s enthusiasm over re...
REUTERS 2020-05-21 14:46:40
Back in March when I was in Wuhan as it opened up after over two months in lockdown, I often went past the Minyi vegetable market. Blocked by 2-metre-high yellow barricades, it was a constant reminder...
Reuters 2020-05-21 13:50:22
Lebanon is at risk of a major food crisis and many Lebanese may soon find it hard to afford bread because of an acute financial crunch and the fall-out of COVID-19, the country's prime minister warned...
-- 2020-05-21 13:30:20
Japan will lift its state of emergency in Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo on Thursday as the number of new coronavirus infections drops, Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said. Tokyo and four other prefect...
-- 2020-05-21 12:12:57
India's federal health ministry Thursday morning reported 132 more deaths and 5,609 new COVID-19 cases since Wednesday, taking the number of deaths to 3,435 and total cases to 112,359. On Wednesday m...
Reuters 2020-05-21 11:11:12
China said on Thursday US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is “blackmailing” the Hong Kong government with the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and that Washington’s recent act...
-- 2020-05-20 17:18:58
Cyclone Amphan has begun to make landfall in West Bengal as strong winds and heavy rains lashed India's eastern coastline. The India Meteorological Department said the landfall process began at 2:30p...
Global Times 2020-05-20 17:12:58
China published sweeping guidelines to improve the country's "socialist market economy," which include instructions for accelerating market reform and opening-up as well as refining national security...
-- 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...
-- 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 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 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 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 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...
-- 2020-05-16 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.
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