-- 2020-02-29 11:06:41
Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad will stand for prime minister on behalf of the former ruling coalition, he said on Saturday, less than a week after he quit and plunged the country into political tur...
-- 2020-02-29 10:59:02
South Korea has recorded its largest rise in coronavirus infections in a single day, with 594 new cases confirmed on Friday. The increase brings the total number of infections in South Korea to 2,931...
AP 2020-02-28 17:02:53
India's hard-line Hindu nationalists watched anti-government protests centred in Muslim communities for months in anger that finally boiled over in the worst communal rioting in New Delhi in decades,...
Reuters 2020-02-28 11:58:48
New Zealand’s health ministry on Friday confirmed the country’s first case of coronavirus in a person who recently returned from Iran. The person, who is in their 60s, tested positive in...
Reuters 2020-02-28 10:50:10
Iran said on Thursday its death toll from coronavirus had risen to 26, by far the highest number outside China, and the total number of infected people now stood at 245, including several senior offic...
-- 2020-02-27 21:04:46
Indian government has asked a Bangladeshi studying at Visva-Bharati to leave India for participating in “anti-government activities” after she posted on Facebook a few photographs of prote...
-- 2020-02-27 19:35:52
The remains of a teenage boy have been found in the lion enclosure of a Lahore zoo, a day after he went missing. Officials said they are investigating how Muhammad Bilal, 17, made it over the fence a...
-- 2020-02-27 18:39:38
All Japan's elementary, junior and high schools will be asked to close from March 2 until their upcoming spring break to help contain the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a task fo...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-02-27 13:38:01
At least 34 people were killed and over 200 injured in New Delhi after four straight days of brutal violence over the Citizenship Amendment Act, reports Indian news channel NDTV There were reports of...
REUTERS 2020-02-27 12:41:15
The number of new coronavirus infections inside China - the source of the outbreak - was for the first time overtaken by fresh cases elsewhere on Wednesday, with Italy and Iran emerging as epicentres...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-02-27 10:16:03
Saudi Arabia has temporarily suspended entry to the Kingdom for the purpose of Umrah and visiting the Prophet’s Mosque. It also suspended the entry of tourist visa holders from countries where...
-- 2020-02-26 20:35:19
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for calm on Wednesday after days of clashes between Hindus and minority Muslims over a controversial citizenship law in some of the worst sectarian violenc...
-- 2020-02-26 17:59:37
Malaysia’s decades-old political rivals Mahathir Mohamad and Anwar Ibrahim set out claims to lead the Southeast Asian country on Wednesday after Mahathir’s shock resignation as prime minis...
-- 2020-02-26 14:49:06
Hong Kong will hand out cash to adult permanent residents, to help boost spending and ease financial burden. As part of the annual budget, $10,000 Hong Kong dollars ($1,280; £985) was announced...
-- 2020-02-26 14:29:56
At least 24 people, including 10 women and 3 children, were killed when the private bus they were travelling in fell into Maiz river on Kota-Dausa mega highway in Bundi district of Rajasthan in India...
-- 2020-02-26 12:16:46
South Korea reported 169 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, including a US soldier, as health authorities readied an ambitious plan to test more than 200,000 members of a church hit hardest by the co...
Reuters 2020-02-26 10:32:28
At least 19 people have been killed in the Indian capital during clashes between opposing protesters over a new citizenship law, a senior hospital official told Reuters on Wednesday, even as an eerie...
-- 2020-02-25 16:39:00
US President Donald Trump Trump announced that India has signed a deal to purchase more than $3 billion of advanced military equipment, including helicopters. Trump also described trip to India as 'u...
-- 2020-02-25 12:30:15
Thailand confirmed two new cases of the coronavirus, a senior health official said, bringing the total infections in the country to 37. Both of the new cases are Thai nationals, Sukhum Kanchanapimai,...
-- 2020-02-25 11:47:08
Flooding caused by torrential rain paralysed large parts of Indonesia’s capital on Tuesday, as major streets were inundated with murky, brown flood water and power supplies cut in certain parts...
Reuters 2020-02-25 11:11:27
At least seven people were killed and about 150 were injured in clashes on Monday in New Delhi during protests over a new citizenship law, a police official told Reuters on Tuesday. “Seven pers...
-- 2020-02-25 10:37:57
China reported a rise in new coronavirus cases in Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, on Tuesday while the rest of the country saw a fourth-straight day of declines. Hubei had 499 new conf...
-- 2020-02-24 22:04:30
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad announced his resignation but was asked to stay on as interim leader by the country's monarch. Mahathir said in a two-line statement that he had informed the...
-- 2020-02-24 18:31:20
Mahathir Mohamad submitted his resignation from the post of Malaysia's prime minister to the king on Monday in a shocking turn of events. The announcement was made amid plans by Mahathir's supporters...
Reuters 2020-02-24 13:36:18
US President Donald Trump landed in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Monday to a raucous reception at the start of a visit during which the two sides will aim to reset relations that have been...
Reuters 2020-02-24 13:03:07
The first case of the new coronavirus was detected in Bahrain, the state news agency said on Monday, citing the health ministry. The Ministry of Health added that it was a Bahraini citizen arriving f...
Reuters 2020-02-24 12:42:01
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has submitted a letter of resignation to Malaysia’s king, his office said on Monday, amid talk of forming a new governing coalition. The fate of Malaysia’s...
-- 2020-02-24 11:35:23
New Zealand has extended for eight days a ban on arrivals from mainland China, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday, carrying into its fourth week an effort to block exposure to the coronaviru...
REUTERS 2020-02-24 10:51:20
Fears mounted on Monday that the coronavirus outbreak in China will grow into a pandemic with disruptive and deadly consequences for countries around the world, after sharp rises in infections in Sout...
WHO concerned by global spread 2020-02-23 17:07:05
China reported a sharp fall in new deaths and cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, but world health officials warned it was too early to make predictions about the outbreak as new infections continue...
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