(AFP) - Beijing lashed out today at Britain’s decision to ban Huawei equipment, saying London had become “America’s dupe” and vowing to take measures to protect the interests of Chinese companies.…

(CNA) - China on Wednesday (Jul 15) said it would retaliate after US President Donald Trump signed into law an Act allowing sanctions on banks over Beijing's clampdown on Hong Kong. The Hong…

(Bloomberg) - Facebook and Google have for years operated like shop windows for news stories, plying their billions of visitors with free snippets and information from articles across the web. An…

(Reuters) - Tokyo will lift its alert level for coronavirus infections to the highest of four levels on Wednesday, the Asahi newspaper reported, after a recent spike in cases to record levels in…

The first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday -- as the shots are poised to begin key final testing.…

(Daily Mail) - A human trial for a coronavirus vaccine is starting in Queensland today. Some 120 volunteers in Herston, Brisbane will have the vaccine injected to see if it is safe and can…

(Jakarta Post) - The coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 565,000 people out of nearly 13 million registered cases worldwide, has been accelerating sharply since the start of July,…

The government says this "isn't a prediction" and COVID-19 is being brought under control - but is facing calls to prepare. (Sky News) - Coronavirus infections could grow "out of control" in the UK…

(AFP) - A 30-year-old man from Texas died from the new coronavirus after attending a “COVID-19” party hosted by an infected person, a doctor has revealed, underlining the risk to younger people.…

(China Daily) - The enactment of the National Security Law for Hong Kong has had a strong deterrent effect on the opposition camp and those engaged in separatism, the chairwoman of the city's…

(NST) - Nearly 1,300 people at a military academy in Indonesia have tested positive for the coronavirus, an official said, as the country struggles to contain the epidemic. The Indonesian Army…

(Bloomberg) - China has started tracking down some of its citizens living abroad to collect taxes, surprising expatriates who never had to pay levies back home on overseas income, according to…

(SCMP) - President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia open to Muslim worship on Friday after a top court ruled that the building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding…

(CNA) - Thai researchers plan to begin human trials of a potential vaccine for the new coronavirus in November and are preparing 10,000 doses, a senior official said on Sunday (Jul 12), aiming for…

(FMT) - The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has confirmed that a luxury yacht, estimated to be worth US$688 million (RM2.93 billion), was purchased with funds linked to 1MDB. According to The…

(Reuters) - The economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic has negatively impacted about 31 million workers in Vietnam, with 900,000 out of work and nearly 18 million people receiving less income…

(The Star) - Singapore's long-ruling party retained power on Saturday but its support fell sharply, while the opposition made historic gains, in a general election held under the shadow of a…

(NST) - Australia on Thursday offered protections for Hong Kongers living in the country in response to China's imposition of a tough national security law for the territory. In steps certain…

(REUTERS) - News broadcaster Al Jazeera has rejected allegations by Malaysian authorities that a documentary it aired last week about the arrest of undocumented migrants during the coronavirus…

(NST) - Singaporeans will vote in a general election today with a raft of safety measures in place as the city-state emerges from a major coronavirus outbreak that swept through migrant worker…

(CNA) - China's embassy in Kazakhstan has warned its citizens to take precautions against an outbreak of pneumonia in the country that it says is more lethal than COVID-19. It said in a…

(NST) - China opened a new office on Wednesday for its intelligence agents to operate openly in Hong Kong for the first time under a tough new security law, in a public display of its tightening…

(NST) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday formally started the withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization, making good on threats to deprive the UN body of its top funding…

(NST) - China has quickly moved to censor Hong Kong's internet and access users' data using a feared new national security law, but US tech giants offered some resistance citing rights concerns.…

(BBC) - He took the test, his fourth, on Monday after developing symptoms, including a high temperature. Mr Bolsonaro has repeatedly played down risks of what he has called the "little flu",…

(AFP) - White House aides are considering undermining the Hong Kong dollar’s peg to the greenback as part of efforts to punish China over its new security law in the city, a report said Wednesday.…

The US coronavirus outbreak crossed a grim new milestone of over three million confirmed cases yesterday as more states reported record numbers of new infections, and Florida faced an impending…

(Reuters) - British finance minister Rishi Sunak will announce on Wednesday (Jul 8) his next moves to prevent a wave of job cuts from snowballing into a full-blown unemployment crisis in the…

(Reuters) - The border between Australia’s two most populous states will close from tomorrow for an indefinite period as authorities scramble to contain an outbreak of the coronavirus in the city…

(FMT) - Chinese authorities on Monday detained a law professor who published essays criticising President Xi Jinping over the coronavirus pandemic and his efforts to consolidate power, according…