COVID-19

While mainland China's case numbers are small compared to many other countries, they are the highest since the pandemic began.

The city of 7.4 million people is in the grip of a spiraling Omicron outbreak.

Helping North Korea help itself will require creativity, flexibility, and patience.

The Philippines will soon conduct one of Asia’s largest elections in 2022. One expert says the campaign period is beginning to look like a “public health nightmare.”

Logistics performance is a good indicator of a country's vaccination success, but some intriguing exceptions also offer lessons for countries hampered by poor logistics.

The cautious easing of restrictions stirred both hope and worry for the roughly half-a-million foreigners locked out of Japan since early 2020.

What led to Sri Lanka’s “Delta peak” in 2021, after a promising start to pandemic containment?

If vaccine diplomacy is the new great game, it is being played wrong by all sides, with the risk that no one will be left a winner.

On March 15, the government plans to reopen the country fully to international tourists.

Despite surging daily caseloads, the government is hoping to smooth the way for a return of international visitors.

“The whole world knows we have to live with the virus, only the Hong Kong government does not know,” said taxi driver Chan Tai-man. 

A currency crunch has hindered imports of fuel and other essentials from overseas, including milk powder, cooking gas, and petrol.