Hong Kong has decided to ban flights from India, Pakistan, and the Philippines for 14 days beginning on Tuesday (April 20) after a rise in COVID-19 cases in those countries.
"India, Pakistan, and the Philippines all had a seven-day cumulative number (...)
The efficacy of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines is "not high" and authorities are weighing options to bolster protection — including mixing different shots, China's top disease control official has said.
"The protection rates of existing vaccines are not (...)
Military activity in the South China Sea spiked over the weekend as a Chinese aircraft carrier entered the region and a US Navy expeditionary strike group wrapped up exercises.
Meanwhile, the US and Philippines were preparing for joint drills as the (...)
China's government has passed a new law that will drastically restrict the right of Hong Kongers to stand for election and reshape the city's parliament, further entrenching Beijing's power over the supposedly semi-autonomous territory.
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China has issued more retaliatory sanctions over Xinjiang, targeting individuals and entities in the United Kingdom it says "maliciously spread lies and disinformation" regarding Beijing's treatment of Uighur Muslims.
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Concern is growing for the safety of residents in parts of Myanmar's largest city after the military moved to seal off several key areas and impose an information blackout in an apparent bid to quash opposition.
The military, which seized power in a (...)
Bloodshed continues in Myanmar after another violent day on Thursday saw at least 12 people killed by the ruling junta, according to a watchdog group, prompting a top UN official to say the crackdown on peaceful protests is "likely meeting the legal (...)
An official from ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party has died in custody following alleged torture, the second such death while in detention of junta forces this week, according to a watchdog group.
The deaths have raised concerns about (...)
China and Russia have agreed to jointly construct a lunar space station that will be "open to all countries," the China National Space Administration said in a statement on Tuesday.
The leaders of the two countries' respective space agencies signed (...)
China is assembling an increasingly offensive military and expanding its regional footprint, as Beijing steps up efforts to supplant American military power in Asia, a top US commander warned Congress on Tuesday.
"I cannot for the life of me (...)
The Chinese government's alleged actions in Xinjiang have violated every single provision in the United Nations' Genocide Convention, according to an independent report by more than 50 global experts in human rights, war crimes and international (...)
Japan's military performed 25 missions in 2020 in defense of US ships or planes, a sign of the growing integration of two of Asia's most powerful armed forces.
The number of what Japan calls "asset protection" missions was up from 14 in 2019 amid a (...)
Hong Kong has introduced sweeping new restrictions for how schools operate, months after the Beijing government imposed a new national security law giving authorities wide-ranging powers to crack down on vaguely defined political crimes.
For years, (...)
A team of World Health Organization investigators in Wuhan are visiting a laboratory on Wednesday that has been the focus of conspiracies and speculation about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.
The WHO investigators began research in the (...)
A team of World Health Organization (WHO) investigators examining the origins of the coronavirus pandemic left their hotel in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday afternoon, after completing a two-week quarantine.
The 13 team members could be seen (...)
Thousands of Hong Kong residents were locked down on Saturday in an effort to contain a worsening outbreak of coronavirus in the city. There have been more than 4,300 cases of coronavirus in Hong Kong since November, making up nearly 40% of the (...)
A Chinese court has sentenced the former chairman of a huge state-owned financial company to death after finding him guilty of bribery. It's a rare use of the most severe punishment in a long-running crackdown by Beijing on corruption.
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will ban all flights arriving from the United Kingdom from midnight local time on Monday, becoming the first city in Asia to announce such a halt after a new super-virulent strain of the novel coronavirus was identified in Britain, Reuters (...)
Hong Kong will ban all flights arriving from the United Kingdom from midnight local time on Monday, becoming the first city in Asia to announce such a halt after a new super-virulent strain of the novel coronavirus was identified in Britain, Reuters (...)
Normalization of relations between Qatar and its neighbors would be credit positive for Qatar, but high public sector debt will remain a drag on the country's sovereign ratings, says Fitch Ratings.
There have been recent signs of progress towards a (...)
Pro-democracy opposition lawmakers in Hong Kong have resigned en masse in protest over the expulsion of their four colleagues.
Authorities in Hong Kong said in a statement the four legislators — Kwok Ka-ki, Alvin Yeung, Dennis Kwok, and Kenneth (...)
Billionaire Jack Ma's Ant Group blockbuster IPO — which could raise $34.5 billion — puts the fintech giant's valuation at a dizzying $315 billion.
The Chinese tech champion's shares will begin trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Shanghai's (...)
Researchers in Hong Kong on Monday reported about a healthy man in his 30s, contracting the coronavirus infection again four and a half months after his first bout in what appears to be the first confirmed case of COVID-19 reinfection.
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Fitch Ratings has assigned Indonesia's proposed US dollar-denominated sovereign global certificates (sukuk) an expected rating of 'BBB(EXP)'. The expected rating is in line with Indonesia's Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) of (...)
The coronavirus pandemic is set to result in a near-doubling in external funding needs over 2020-2021 for rated high-yield sovereigns in the Middle East and Africa (MEA), says Fitch Ratings. This will largely reflect the impact of a widening of (...)
