COVID-19

As the pandemic rages across the country, holding in-person Class 12 exams would have risked a super spreader event.

Despite some concerns and criticisms abroad, most Chinese (and expats) are eager to roll up their sleeves for the jab.

As the country battles hard to stop an ongoing surge of infections in the border districts, structural difficulties and public indifference about the pandemic are fueling the fire.

An alliance of civil society organizations in Fiji has demanded the economy minister’s resignation amid a bleak economic outlook. 

Prime Minister Muhyiddin is facing increasing pressure from the opposition – and from within his own coalition.

Around 82 percent of Thailand's confirmed COVID-19 infections have occurred since April.

Taiwan’s government is attempting to recapture public trust amid its first large-scale community coronavirus outbreak.

So far this month, the number of “brought in dead” has tripled over April's total.

Around 16 percent of those infected in the latest outbreak have been prison inmates.

Biden in a statement said the majority of the intelligence community had "coalesced" around two possible scenarios.

Japan’s second-largest newspaper by circulation called for the Olympics to be scrapped amid an ongoing COVID-19 surge.

Curfew lifted in Phnom Penh but case numbers remain high.