As of Friday noon (20 Aug), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed an additional 40 cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore. This brings the...
Starting 8 September, fully vaccinated Singapore residents will be permitted to travel to Germany and back for leisure without the need to serve Stay-Home Notice (SHN)....
An establishment stalwart was named Malaysia’s new prime minister Friday after the previous government collapsed, the national palace said, with a scandal-plagued party reclaiming the leadership...
The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on Thursday (19 Aug) that Singapore will allow travellers who have been fully vaccinated under the World Health Organisation’s (WHO)...
The Paralympic flame arrived in Tokyo on Friday as virus cases hit fresh records nationwide just four days before the Games begin. Japan’s daily infections topped...
Living with COVID-19 means accepting that it has become an endemic and that there is likely no way to eliminate the virus using current strategies without...
The Taliban are going house-to-house searching for opponents and their families, according to an intelligence document for the UN that deepened fears on Friday that Afghanistan’s...
Facebook released new security measures on Thursday to protect users in Afghanistan after the lightning takeover of the country by the Taliban, who are already barred...
European business leaders have warned that Hong Kong’s stringent quarantine measures have left its residents “indefinitely trapped” in the city, threatening its status as an international...
Agriculture and food ministers from the 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies on Thursday (19 Aug) reaffirmed their commitment to an open, transparent, productive, sustainable, and...
The safety net in Singapore for post-COVID care is “totally inadequate”, said infectious diseases specialist and chairman of Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) Professor Paul Tambyah. “This...
Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said on Thursday (19 Aug) that Singapore will “very likely” have to begin a COVID-19 vaccination booster exercise, adding that it...
New Zealand extended a national COVID-19 lockdown on Friday as case numbers continued to rise and a Delta variant outbreak spread from Auckland to the capital...
China passed a sweeping privacy law aimed at preventing businesses from collecting sensitive personal data on Friday, as the country faces an uptick in internet scams,...
JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Indonesia has been classed as “partly free” in this year’s edition of ‘Freedom in the World‘, an annual global report on political rights...