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Sun, May 22, 2022 | 23:19
China reports 13,146 COVID cases, highest number since peak of first wave 2 years ago
China reports 13,146 COVID cases, highest number since peak of first wave 2 years ago
China reported 13,146 COVID cases Sunday, the highest number since the peak of the first wave more than two years ago, as the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant spread to more than a dozen provinces.
2022-04-03 11:30
  • COVID-19 cases rise in Shanghai with millions under lockdown
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka declares 36-hour nationwide lockdown
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka declares 36-hour nationwide lockdown
Sri Lanka declared a 36-hour nationwide curfew Saturday and deployed troops backed with sweeping new powers under a state of emergency to quell protests against the president, his relatives and even his most trusted shaman.
2022-04-02 20:42
  • Sri Lanka declares emergency after violent protests over economic crisis
Shanghai separates COVID-positive children from parents in virus fight
Shanghai separates COVID-positive children from parents in virus fight
Esther Zhao thought she was doing the right thing when she brought her two-and-a-half year-old daughter to a Shanghai hospital with a fever March 26.
2022-04-02 17:38
  • Chinese state media tries to rally support for zero-COVID as discontent grows over lockdowns
Sri Lanka declares emergency after violent protests over economic crisis
Sri Lanka declares emergency after violent protests over economic crisis
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a nationwide public emergency late Friday following violent protests over the country's worst economic crisis in decades.
2022-04-02 13:32
  • Crisis-hit Sri Lanka declares 36-hour nationwide lockdown
'We demand an explanation!' Shanghai residents vent COVID lockdown irritation
'We demand an explanation!' Shanghai residents vent COVID lockdown irritation
Frustrated and locked down, residents of Shanghai have taken to social media to vent, questioning the practicality of persisting with China's zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19 in its most populous city.
2022-03-30 17:46
  • Shanghai expands lockdown to more areas as new local cases hit 5,982
Singapore hangs drug trafficker in resumption of executions
Singapore hangs drug trafficker in resumption of executions
A Singaporean man on death row for drug trafficking was hanged Wednesday in the first execution in the city-state in over two years, rights activists said.
2022-03-30 15:13
Shanghai expands lockdown to more areas as new local cases hit 5,982
Shanghai expands lockdown to more areas as new local cases hit 5,982
Shanghai extended its shut downs to some western parts of the city earlier than scheduled, Wednesday, after it reported a total of 5,982 new local cases.
2022-03-30 09:54
  • 'We demand an explanation!' Shanghai residents vent COVID lockdown irritation
Japan whitewashes wartime atrocities in new school textbooks
Japan whitewashes wartime atrocities in new school textbooks
The Japanese government has deleted words that show the coercive nature of its World War II atrocities against Koreans - forced labor and sexual enslavement - in school textbooks for use starting in 2023, according to a related ministry's announcement.
2022-03-29 16:05
Singapore court dismisses mentally disabled Malaysian man's death sentence appeal
Singapore court dismisses mentally disabled Malaysian man's death sentence appeal
Singapore's top court Tuesday dismissed a mentally disabled Malaysian man's last-ditch appeal against a death sentence, with his family saying they were "devastated" and "shocked" by the ruling.
2022-03-29 14:05
Shanghai starts China's biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years
Shanghai starts China's biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years
China began its most extensive coronavirus lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing outbreak in Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation's ``zero-COVID'' strategy.
2022-03-29 09:35
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