(Nikkei) - Three days after Beijing endorsed the Japan-developed flu drug Avigan as a treatment for COVID-19, Indonesia is importing millions of doses to treat its patients, President Joko…

(CNN) - President Donald Trump ignored reports from US intelligence agencies starting in January that warned of the scale and intensity of the coronavirus outbreak in China, The Washington Post…

(TheStar) - Four men were executed on Friday (March 20) for the gang rape and murder of a young woman in Delhi in December 2012, bringing closure to a case that shone the spotlight on widespread…

(TheStar) - 18.4% -- by far the largest daily rise in absolute terms since the contagion emerged a month ago. On Thursday, Italy overtook China as the country to register most deaths from the…

(NST) - Singapore reported two Covid-19 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday of people with underlying health conditions, marking the first fatalities in the city-state’s widely praised battle…

(Reuters) - While many Muslims in Indonesia’s capital accepted advice to avoid religious gatherings and prayed at home on Friday, elsewhere in the world’s most populous Muslim country, people…

(TheStar) - China's currency traders are much less worried about the prospects of a global economic recession than their colleagues trading the S&P 500 or the Brazilian real. With data…

The Queen has fled to Windsor as the coronavirus crisis is to place the capital on lockdown in days with a major reduction in public transport, soldiers on the street and the possibility of…

(MAIL ONLINE) - Five more Italian doctors have died from coronavirus, bringing the death doll among medics in the country to 13 as it was revealed 2,629 health workers have been infected.…

(FMT) - Some 1,500 Catholics today attended an ordination mass for a new bishop in Indonesia’s Manggarai regency, despite restrictions on mass gatherings over fears of the Covid-19 outbreak,…

Wednesday, March 18, was the most difficult day in a series of difficult days that began less than a month ago. It was the day Italians saw a long line of army trucks leave the cemetery of the…

(MalayMail) - The World Health Organization recommended yesterday that people suffering Covid-19 symptoms avoid taking ibuprofen, after French officials warned that anti-inflammatory drugs could…

(FMT) - China on Wednesday expelled American journalists at The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal in the Communist government’s most severe move against foreign media…

(TheStar) - Scared by the prospect a coronavirus epidemic in parts of Afghanistan under their control, the Taliban have pledged their readiness to work with healthcare workers instead of killing…

A massive coronavirus prayer session with tens of thousands of devotees sparked an outcry in Bangladesh Wednesday as the South Asian nation reported its first death from the global pandemic.…

“I can confirm that we will not go ahead with assessments or exams and that we will not be publishing performance tables for this academic year.” (NST) - England and Wales’ summer General…

(Reuters) - Thousands of Muslim pilgrims from across Asia gathered in Indonesia on Wednesday, despite fears that their meeting could fuel the spread of a coronavirus, just two weeks after a…

(Reuters) - Middle East airline Qatar Airways laid off about 200 Filipino staff in Doha this week and rival Emirates asked pilots to take unpaid leave as the coronavirus outbreak hammers demand…

(SCMP) - Chinese social media users have been left stunned after seeing images of large-scale concerts held by Welsh band the Stereophonics that went ahead in the UK despite the country’s…

(BangkokPost) - The United States and China on Monday each demanded that the other stop smearing its reputation over the novel coronavirus as Donald Trump referred to the pathogen as the "Chinese…

(NST) - The Trump administration on Tuesday pursued a US$1 trillion stimulus package that could deliver US$1,000 checks to Americans within two weeks to buttress an economy hit by coronavirus,…

Lothar Wieler of  Robert Koch Institute expects some 60% to 70% of the world’s population to be infected (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic is likely to take about two years to run its course,…

(TheStar) - All Vietnamese and foreign nationals are required to wear face masks in public places such as airports, bus stations, supermarkets, and public transport vehicles in Vietnam from…

(TheStar) - The Philippines suspended trade on its local stock exchange Tuesday (March 17), becoming the first country to close its financial market over coronavirus fears. President Rodrigo…

(CNA) - The coronavirus shockwaves rippling through U.S. stocks are forcing investors to contemplate outcomes more dire than a recession, including several quarters of declining economic activity,…

(AFP) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte warned in a televised address to the nation yesterday that most residents would get coronavirus, but he ruled out a full lockdown like other European…

(AFP) - Asian markets sank Tuesday as investors struggled to pick themselves off the floor following the previous day’s global bloodbath, which saw Wall Street suffer its worst day in more than…

(Bloomberg) - Oil clawed back some losses after collapsing below US$30 a barrel as the shutdown of swathes of the world’s economy triggers a meltdown in global fuel demand and the most volatile…

(CNA) - The first human trial to evaluate a candidate vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 has begun in Seattle, US health officials said on Monday (Mar 16). "The open-label trial will…