(CNN) - Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving Japanese prime minister in history, will resign Friday due to health reasons, according to Japan's public broadcaster NHK, citing sources close to Abe.…

(FMT) - US-China tensions over the South China Sea escalated on Wednesday, with Beijing firing four missiles into the waters around the same time as the Trump administration took action against…

(Bloomberg) - The discovery of coronavirus in the bathroom of an unoccupied apartment in Guangzhou, China, suggests the airborne pathogen may have wafted upwards through drain pipes, an echo of a…

(Reuters) - A New Zealand court sentenced a man who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand's deadliest shooting to life in prison without parole, the first time such a sentence has been…

(CNN) - Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday warned against the notion of early emergency use authorization for a potential coronavirus vaccine, explaining that such a step could damage efforts to develop…

(The Rakyat Post) - In another day of The Philippines’ claim on Sabah, the Southeast Asian Country has approved a new bill that requires the printing of The Philippine map to include the Malaysian…

(CNN) - A 33-year-old man living in Hong Kong had Covid-19 twice this year, according to preliminary research. He had symptoms the first time around, but no obvious symptoms the second time, the…

(CNN) - Kentucky Fried Chicken has decided to pause using its "finger lickin' good" slogan because ... well, that's probably not the best idea right now. Several months after health officials…

(BBC) - Protests have erupted in the US state of Wisconsin after police shot a black man many times while responding to what they said was a domestic incident. The man, identified as Jacob…

The Berlin hospital treating leading Russian opposition figure said on Monday that test results indicate poisoning, contradicting the finding of Russian doctors. (NST) - The 44-year-old Kremlin…

(NST) - The sentencing of an Australian white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand -- and live-streamed the massacre -- was set to begin amid tight security in a…

(Bangkok Post) - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he had undergone more medical tests but declined to provide details, a week after a first hospital visit that fuelled growing…

(Straits Times) - Hundreds of Malaysians - from factory workers to salesmen, electricians, painters and carpenters - have crossed the Causeway to Singapore for work since last Monday. The…

(BBC) - When Moscow announced on 11 August it had registered the first vaccine against Covid-19 and was naming it Sputnik V, the message was hard to miss. Back in 1957, the Soviet Union had…

(NST) - British government debt has exceeded £2.0 trillion for the first time following large state borrowing as the coronavirus pandemic pushed the UK economy deep into recession, official data…

(Bloomberg) - Millions of migrant workers made arduous journeys to their villages after India imposed the world's largest lockdown in March. Back in the rural hinterland, many say caste…

(Bloomberg) - Bill Gates, the Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, has become, for better and worse, a central character in the story of Covid-19. The good news: The Bill…

(Reuters) - Health authorities in China’s capital Beijing have removed a requirement for people to wear masks outdoors, further relaxing rules aimed at preventing the spread the novel coronavirus…

The widow of Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian agent who was killed in London by radioactive poisoning in 2006, voiced concern that Navalny’s enemies within Russia may have decided that it’s time…

(The Star) - Police in China have busted 3,291 groups involved in gang-related crimes since the launch of a targeted campaign in 2018, the national office against organized crime said Wednesday…

(FMT) - Indonesia has put on the backburner President Joko Widodo’s ambitious US$33-billion project to relocate the capital city to the island of Borneo as it grapples to rein in the coronavirus…

(SCMP) - The World Health Organisation says the planet was nowhere near the amount of coronavirus immunity needed to induce herd immunity, where enough of the population would have antibodies to…

(Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday urged countries to join a global pact aimed at ensuring less wealthy countries have access to Covid-19 vaccines, warning about the risks…

(Bloomberg) - South-East Asia is facing a strain of the new coronavirus that the Philippines, which faces the region’s largest outbreak, is studying to see whether the mutation makes it more…

(Reuters) - China’s vaccine specialist CanSino Biologics Inc has won a patent approval from Beijing for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate Ad5-nCOV, state media reported, citing documents from the…

(FMT) - More than 10,000 Thai protesters chanting “down with dictatorship” and “the country belongs to the people” rallied in Bangkok on Sunday in by far the biggest anti-government demonstration…

(The Sun Daily) - Russia said Saturday that it has produced the first batch of its coronavirus vaccine, after President Vladimir Putin announced it had been first in the world to approve a…

(FMT) - US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Hong Kong’s global financial centre will “go to hell” under tightened Chinese rule. “Hong Kong can never succeed having China as opposed to…

(The Borneo Post) - Abu Sayyaf sub-commander Idang Susukan, who is wanted for several cross-border kidnappings in Malaysia, was arrested in the Philippines yesterday, according to Eastern Sabah…

(Reuters) - Two cities in China have found traces of the new coronavirus in cargoes of imported frozen food, local authorities said on Thursday, although the World Health Organization downplayed…