(NST) -African countries are seething over accounts that Africans are battling stigma and discrimination in China over the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, apparently linked to a cluster of cases in…

Malaysia has received US$620 million (RM2.7 billion) to-date from the United States since the 1Malaysia Development Bhd’s asset recovery efforts were initiated in June 2018, Minister of Finance …

The team said it was highly unlikely that immunity will be strong enough and last long enough that Covid-19 will die out after an initial wave, as was the case with the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003.…

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday cut off funding to the World Health Organization, accusing the UN body of mishandling the coronavirus crisis as governments grapple with how and when to get…

(Borneo Post) - Batu Lintang assemblyman See Chee How has been sacked from Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), said the party’s state chairman Larry Sng. Sng said See, who is PKR Stampin branch chief,…

(FMT) - PKR Wanita information chief Syarul Ema Rena Abu Samah has been sacked from the party, which also results in her being removed from the women’s wing’s central leadership. Ema, popularly…

(MMO) - PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said today he called on Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at the latter’s office to talk about the Covid-19 crisis. According to Anwar, in…

(CNN) - A third of NHS staff and key workers who have been tested for coronavirus in the UK have returned positive results, new British government data shows. According to figures released…

Fahmi Fadzil, Dr Ong Kian Ming and Dr Hatta Ramli. (FMT) - Three Pakatan Harapan MPs have called on International Trade and Industry Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali to take responsibility after the…

Pakatan Harapan's Finance Minister, Lim Guan Eng, had ongoing court cases and was not qualified for the job (FMT) - Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) says those appointed to positions of…

(Bloomberg) - China has started the process of potentially merging its two biggest brokerage firms to create a company that can better compete with the global investment banks as the country opens…

President Trump hurls insults at reporters and plays a video singing his praises over the handling of the crisis. (Sky News) - Donald Trump has used a daily White House COVID-19 news conference to…

Chinese customs officials, facing accusations from Europe that some medical supplies have been defective, say they will inspect every shipment. (NYT) - Chinese officials have begun inspecting every…

Researchers from Cambridge, UK, and Germany have reconstructed the early "evolutionary paths" of COVID-19 in humans -- as infection spread from Wuhan out to Europe and North America -- using genetic…

(FMT) - President Donald Trump startled White House reporters on Monday by airing a video at his daily coronavirus briefing that sounded like a campaign reelection advert. Despite a US death…

Just when you were wondering why the world’s biggest tech companies weren’t doing more to fight the coronavirus pandemic, Apple and Google made a big announcement: They are joining forces to build…

(CNA) - The British government warned on Monday (Apr 13) it would not be lifting a nationwide lockdown anytime soon as the country remains in the grip of a coronavirus outbreak that has claimed…

(CNA) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday (Apr 13) announced he was extending a virtual lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak until May 11, adding that progress had been made but the…

(CNA) - Thailand’s job losses may reach 10 million if the coronavirus outbreak continues for a few months, a business advisory council said on Monday (Apr 13). Southeast Asia’s second-largest…

Bishop Gerald Glenn told a congregation in March that 'god is larger than this dreaded virus' last month, but died from the disease in hospital on Saturday night (Mirror) - A pastor has died from…

(Bernama) - Police have made close to 1,500 arrests on the 26th day of the movement control order, the majority of them being asked to pay the RM1,000 compound, says Senior Minister Datuk Seri…

As the capital’s Victoria Park reopens its gates after two weeks, the rules on exercise and social distancing remain blurred (The Guardian) - As temperatures nudged into the 20s yesterday on a…

(FMT) - Elderly people may have to be kept isolated until the end of the year to protect them from the coronavirus, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said in comments published Sunday. “Without a…

(ST) - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed with a plan to resume the country's rice export after the government announced an export ban in March to ensure national food security…

The revelation came as Assange's partner said his "life is on the brink" in jail and she does not think he would survive COVID-19. (Sky News) - Julian Assange secretly fathered two children while…

(BBC) - Lifting coronavirus lockdown measures too early could spark a "deadly resurgence" in infections, the World Health Organization chief has warned. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said…

(TheSunDaily) - A new study examining air samples from hospital wards with Covid-19 patients has found the virus can travel up to 13 feet (four meters) - twice the distance current guidelines say…

(NST) -The US death toll in the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak topped 20,000 on Saturday, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The outbreak has now claimed the lives of at…

(Bernama) - Police have recorded the statement of Kuantan member of parliament Fuziah Salleh last Friday in connection with a social media posting which allegedly claimed that the Sultan Iskandar…