Authorities in northern China are reimposing lockdowns and other emergency measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, with health officials warning of a worsening outbreak after the country recorded more than 100 cases across 11 provinces over the (...)
Australia will soon establish a travel bubble with Singapore, with details of the plan to be revealed next week, says Prime Minister Scott Morrison, BBC reported.
Singapore will be only the second travel corridor for Australia, which has closed its (...)
Diriyah Biennale Foundation (DBF) announced the artists that will be participating in Saudi Arabia's first contemporary art biennale, to be held from Dec. 11, 2021, through March 11, 2022 in the JAX district of Diriyah, just outside of (...)
Singapore is opening its borders to more countries for quarantine-free travel as the country seeks to rebuild its status as an international aviation hub, and prepares to reach a "new normal" to live with COVID-19.
From Oct. 19 fully vaccinated (...)
Scientists and doctors from the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University have developed a way to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the air in indoor settings, the online news portal Channelnewsasia reported.
SARS-CoV-2 RNA refers (...)
Tata Sons will take charge of Air India after a winning bid of $2.4 billion, including equity and debt, the government said on Friday, marking the end of years of struggle to privatize the financially troubled airline.
Salt-to-software conglomerate (...)
Some of the world's biggest importers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are reducing orders in the face of a 500 percent price surge within a year, raising concerns among major producers about potential long-term destruction of demand.
Natural gas (...)
The Saudi Export-Import Bank (Saudi EXIM Bank) approved financing requests to the tune of SR8.95 billion, the bank said in a bulletin on performance for the fiscal year 2021.
The bulletin highlighted the bank's most significant achievements, within (...)
Singapore has passed a controversial law aimed at countering foreign interference in domestic affairs, in a move that critics say could be used to stifle dissent., BBC reported.
The law allows authorities to order social media sites and Internet (...)
With China facing a looming demographic crisis, the government last month passed into law a three-child policy raising the permitted limit on family sizes, CNN reported quoting Chinese media.
But with many couples still hesitant to expand their (...)
The CIA has reportedly removed its station chief in Vienna for not responding appropriately to an outbreak of the mysterious Havana syndrome.
Dozens of US personnel in the Austrian capital and their children have reported symptoms of the syndrome, (...)
The President of Estonia, Kersti Kaljulaid, lauded the world's embrace of online services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, in her high-level General Debate speech at the 76th United Nations General Assembly session.
Kaljulaid said (...)
Chinese authorities declared rejecting Taiwan's application to join the 11-nation Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.
"There is only one China in the world, and Taiwan (...)
The European Union (EU) Thursday announced that it had added Kuwait to the list of epidemiologically safe non-EU countries, for which the EU countries should reopen the borders for non-essential travel.
The EU Council of Ministers updates the safe (...)
Portugal is now the country with the world's highest vaccination rate, according to figures from Our World In Data.
About 84% of the country's 10.3 million population is now fully vaccinated. This is the highest rate in the world, ahead of the UAE (...)
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday that his country is seeking to step up funding for hydrogen projects to boost clean energy production, in response to international pressure to set more ambitious targets to reduce carbon (...)
The 2022 Saudi International presented by SoftBank Investment Advisers will mark the start of an historic chapter in golf, as the prestigious event becomes sanctioned by the Asian Tour as part of a new 10-year partnership.
The tournament, which will (...)
Despite the economic devastation wrought by COVID-19, the new technology sector continued to thrive and prosper last year, the UN's intellectual property agency said in a new report published on Monday.
According to the findings of the World (...)
Copenhagen has been named the world's safest city for the first time, scoring 82.4 points out of 100 in the annual report of Economist Intelligence Unit.
Denmark's capital jumped from joint eighth place in 2019 to the top of the list, largely thanks (...)
Malaysia on Saturday expressed its concern that the US, UK and Australia security pact (AUKUS) may provoke a nuclear arms race in the Indo-Pacific region.
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison called his Malaysian counterpart Ismail Sabri Yaakob (...)
The European Union Thursday released an updated list of epidemiologically-safe countries for which non-essential travel to the EU is allowed.
Uruguay was added to the EU's new list, but six countries were removed, namely Albania, Armenia, (...)
Singapore has warned it may need to reimpose COVID-19 restrictions if a new outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant is not contained, putting at risk the city's shift towards living with the virus.
The number of new COVID-19 infections in (...)
The European Union has recommended its 27 nations members reintroduce restrictions on tourists from the US because of rising coronavirus infections there.
The decision by the European Council to remove the US from a safe list of countries for (...)
North Korea appears to have restarted operations at a power plant capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons, according to the United Nations' nuclear watchdog.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that clues, such as the (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's overall merchandise exports increased by 91.8% in June 2021 compared to June 2020, when international trade was impacted BY COVID-related lockdowns and travel bans in numerous countries.
The value of exports amounted to (...)
