(Reuters) - Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s absence from public view in the past two months, including missing the final episode of a TV show on which he was to appear as a judge, has fueled social…

GCSE and A-Level exams will not go ahead “as normal” this summer, Boris Johnson warned, as he imposed England’s third national lockdown. In a televised address to the nation on Monday night,…

(CNA) - Countries across the world tightened restrictions on their populations on Saturday (Jan 2) to fight a resurgence of COVID-19, as the European Union offered to help drug companies expand…

(CNA) - India will not allow the export of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for several months, the head of Serum Institute of India, which has been contracted to make 1 billion…

(BBC) - The latest in a series of attempts by allies of President Donald Trump to overturn the November US election result has failed. A Texas judge rejected the case, brought by Republican…

(NST) - Thailand has declared stricter measures for 28 Covid-19 red zone provinces nationwide, while Bangkok has closed 25 types of businesses to contain the resurgence of infections. The…

(ST) - Around 50 countries around the world have already started vaccinating their people against Covid-19, barely a year after the first alert by China signalled the start of the epidemic.…

(Reuters) - A Wisconsin hospital pharmacist was arrested yesterday on suspicion of sabotaging more than 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine by deliberately removing them from refrigeration to spoil,…

(CNA) - From Jan 1, 2021, British and EU citizens will be confronted with the reality of Brexit as the transition period ends and borders that were done away with decades ago return. Although a…

(Bloomberg) - Hong Kong’s highest court sent tycoon Jimmy Lai back to jail as he fights national security charges, in a decision that also signaled plans to interpret provisions the…

THE new coronavirus variant that emerged in the UK is more transmissible and appears to affect a higher proportion of people under 20, according to a report from Imperial College London and other…

(CNA) - Brexit becomes a reality as Britain leaves Europe's customs union and single market, ending nearly half a century of often turbulent ties with its closest neighbours. Brexit becomes a…

(Reuters) - In a high-walled Art Deco villa in the Hong Kong suburbs of Kowloon, the Vatican operates an unofficial diplomatic mission, its only political outpost of any kind in China. The…

Sime Darby Plantation Berhad is the world's largest oil palm plantation company by planted area and produces about 20% of global production by capacity (CNN) - The Trump administration will halt…

(ST) - President Rodrigo Duterte’s senior ministers and bodyguards have already received a vaccine that local regulators have yet to approve. “I know some from the Cabinet and from the PSG…

(Reuters) - A 45-year-old nurse in California tested positive for COVID-19 more than a week after receiving Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, an ABC News affiliate reported on Tuesday. Matthew…

(Malay Mail) - Donald Trump, after caving to pressure and signing a US$900 billion (RM3.65 trillion) coronavirus relief package, faces another potential humiliation this week with Congress poised…

(The Sun Daily) - A Chinese citizen journalist was jailed for four years for her livestream reporting from Wuhan as the Covid-19 outbreak unfurled, her lawyer said today, almost a year after…

(The Star) - President Rodrigo Duterte (pic) told the United States that he would push through with his plan to terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) unless it was able to provide the…

(Reuters) - A private Thai hospital was ordered on Sunday to stop advertising Covid-19 vaccinations for sale in advance on the grounds that no vaccine is yet approved in Thailand. Vibhavadi…

(Reuters) - Global shares climbed on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law a $2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package, backing down from his earlier threat to block the…

(SCMP) - As China prepares to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 12, it is also proposing to toughen powers to prosecute children who leave their victims seriously…

(NST) - The coronavirus crisis will not be the last pandemic, and attempts to improve human health are "doomed" without tackling climate change and animal welfare, the World Health Organization's…

(Bangkok) - Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha appears to have finally smelt the coffee and woken up -- albeit rather late -- to the pressing need to tackle the smuggling of foreign migrants, which…

(Bloomberg) - Iran has found a way to buy coronavirus vaccines following a US exemption to its sanctions, in a breakthrough for the country that's fighting the worst outbreak of the virus in the…

(Bloomberg) - The sudden re-emergence of Covid-19 in places with the world's best records for handling the pandemic is sending a discouraging message to health officials: Strategies to fully snuff…

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday granted pardons to his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former adviser Roger Stone, sweeping away the most important convictions from US…

(NST) - The latest Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand has spread to at least 22 provinces in the kingdom and more than 1,200 cases are reportedly linked to a shuttered seafood market in the…

(Al Jazeera) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed legislation establishing the United States military’s $740bn annual budget, setting up a confrontation with Congress where a broad…

(Bernama) - Singapore yesterday reported one confirmed case with UK B117 virus strain involving a 17-year-old female Singaporean who was studying in the United Kingdom from August 2020, according…