Malaysia’s king met political party chiefs Tuesday as the hunt began for a new prime minister, a day after the last leader quit. Muhyiddin Yassin resigned...
New Zealand imposed a snap three-day lockdown Tuesday after identifying a single case of locally transmitted COVID-19 suspected to be the Delta variant, Prime Minister Jacinda...
Project Management Institute (PMI) and Deloitte Consulting Southeast Asia (Deloitte) on Tuesday (17 Aug) announced their collaboration to increase awareness of the important role project management...
Having suffered a cardiac arrest after his first COVID-19 vaccine jab, a 16-year-old boy has received S$255,000 under the Vaccine Injury Financial Assistance Programme (VIFAP), said...
Starting 19 August, people can visit hospitals if they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or are able to show a valid negative COVID-19 test. This...
Hong Kong’s leader on Tuesday warned one of the city’s top legal bodies against getting involved in politics, in the latest sign of the government telling...
There is “enormous concern” over a coronavirus outbreak in vulnerable Australian Indigenous communities, authorities said on Tuesday, prompting them to deploy military personnel to deliver vaccines...
Japan’s government said Tuesday it will expand a coronavirus state of emergency to seven new regions as it battles a record wave of infections a week...
In an interview with Singapore Press Holdings’ (SPH) radio station Kiss92 FM yesterday (16 Aug), Health Minister Ong Ye Kung told the audience that Singapore is...
Rapper Subhas Nair called out Mediacorp for being “racist” in a Twitter thread on Sunday (15 Aug), where he revealed that Channel NewsAsia (CNA) had rejected...
A director of a security firm was sentenced to 10 months’ jail for bribing a Takashimaya’s senior manager with S$121,000 over more than three years to...
Pfizer and BioNTech on Monday submitted preliminary clinical data to US health authorities as part of their effort to seek authorization for a third dose of...
New Zealand recorded its first locally transmitted case of COVID-19 in six months on Tuesday, sparking efforts to trace the origins of the infection as officials...
Low-profile political insider Muhyiddin Yassin had a swift and unexpected rise to Malaysia’s premiership — but his time in power was fraught with instability, and he...
Indonesia’s weather agency has warned the government to stay alert for the weather conditions and updates as the country brace for severe weather conditions in this...