Beijing urges millions to keep working from home amid Covid outbreak menace
A medical worker takes a swab sample from a person for a nucleic acid test at a makeshift testing site, amid the Covid-19 outbreak, in...
AstraZeneca says EU regulator approves Covid shot as booster
A healthcare worker holds a vial of the AstraZeneca vaccine during a ceremony to announce the AstraZeneca vaccine being produced in the country by Fiocruz...
Chinese province of nearly 100 million to Covid test every two days
People line up to get tested at a makeshift nucleic acid testing site, amid the Covid-19 outbreak, in Beijing, China May 23, 2022. — Reuters...
Taiwan foreign ministry thanks Biden for reaffirming safety commitment
US President Joe Biden said the US would support Taiwan should China attempt an invasion. — Reuters pic Monday, 23 May 2022 4:22 PM MYT...
UN Rights chief’s visit to China will be in ‘closed-loop’ with no travelling media, says China
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet will not have media representatives travelling with her, the ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said. — Reuters pic...
Paris prosecutor’s office confirms one man killed in Qatar Embassy
The Qatar embassy has yet to comment on the apparent shooting of a security guard at its premises. — AFP pic Monday, 23 May 2022...
Denmark registers first case of monkeypox infection
This handout photo taken in the year 2004 and received on May 23, 2022 from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) shows an ultrathin section electron-microscopic...
Facebook-owner Meta to share more political ad targeting data
Meta said it would also include detailed targeting information for these individual ads in its ‘Facebook Open Research and Transparency’ database used by academic researchers,...
UK PM met civil servant to discuss timing of ‘partygate’ report publication, says spokesman
The spokesman said the meeting between Boris Johnson and Gray was not at the request of the prime minister, but rather a suggestion at official...
Taiwan’s youngest Covid-19 fatality: A one-year-old boy
With those two deaths, the number of children in Taiwan under the age of 10 who have died of Covid-19 increased to four, with three...