A woman receives a shot of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in Yangon, Myanmar, Aug 29, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) YANGON / SINGAPORE / HANOI / MANILA / DHAKA – Myanmar has vaccinated more than 37.53 million people for COVID-19 as of Tuesday, the Ministry of Health's data showed. The figures comprised over 30.77 million people aged 18 and […]
John Lee Ka-chiu, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said on Tuesday that the central government in Beijing was "highly concerned" about the possible security risks that might arise from foreign lawyers being involved in national security cases, and that he had requested a legal interpretation on the matter by the National […]
A girl walks past a poster at a vaccination centre in New Delhi on April 10, 2022, after government announced the paid precaution dose against the coronavirus to be available for everyone above 18 years of age at private vaccination centers. (MONEY SHARMA / AFP) NEW DELHI / YANGON / HANOI / SINGAPORE / MANILA […]
Staff check a client at a drive-through COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on Jan 8, 2022. (MARK BAKER / AP) BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / SINGAPORE / MANILA / HANOI / SYDNEY / NEW DELHI / SEOUL / KUALA LUMPUR – Australia's largest state will withdraw or refund tens of thousands of fines issued during […]
Workers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant at Suri Seri Begawan Raja Pengiran Anak Damit Mosque in an effort to counter the spread of the COVID-19 in Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei on March 17, 2020. (PHOTO / AFP) BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / SINGAPORE / MANILA / HANOI – The COVID-19 Steering Committee of Brunei announced on Monday the […]
Staff check a client at a drive-through COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on Jan 8, 2022. (MARK BAKER / AP) CANBERRA / NEW DELHI / SEOUL / SINGAPORE / ISLAMABAD – Australia has reported a small uptick in active COVID-19 cases as the country nears the peak of its fourth wave […]
People wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk near a landmark lion statue of a department store that also wears a mask in the Ginza shipping area of Tokyo on July 28, 2022. (SHUJI KAJIYAMA / AP) TOKYO / YANGON / SINGAPORE / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – Japan's health ministry granted emergency […]
In 2013, the Department of Justice issued its Prosecution Code. It is described as “a set of instructions to guide prosecutors in conducting prosecutions”, and the department’s prosecutors have recourse to it almost daily. In its introductory paragraph, it asserts that the “golden thread that runs through the fabric of the Prosecution Code is the […]
People walk along the Cheonggye stream in Seoul on May 2, 2022. (JUNG YEON-JE / AFP) SEOUL / WELLINGTON / KUALA LUMPUR / YANGON / SINGAPORE – South Korea reported 23,091 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Sunday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 26,581,856, the health authorities said Monday. […]
Staff check a client at a drive-through COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on Jan 8, 2022. (MARK BAKER / AP) TOKYO / MANILA / HANOI / SINGAPORE / SEOUL / NEW DELHI – Australia has reported a 38 percent increase in COVID-19 cases amid a fourth national wave of infections. According to data published by […]
A woman wearing a face mask checks out her mobile phone as she walks across an intersection of the famed Ginza shopping district in Tokyo on June 3, 2022. (HIRO KOMAE / AP) TOKYO / MANILA / HANOI / SINGAPORE – The Tokyo Metropolitan government on Thursday raised its COVID-19 alert to the second-highest level on its four-tier […]
Medical staff transport a patient from the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne on Oct 9, 2021. (WILLIAM WEST / AFP) YANGON / SINGAPORE / HANOI / MANILA / CANBERRA / SEOUL / KUALA LUMPUR / NEW DELHI – In all four waves of COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, the highest proportion of deaths have occurred in people who are most […]
A woman receives a shot of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in Yangon, Myanmar, Aug 29, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) YANGON / SINGAPORE / HANOI / MANILA – Myanmar has vaccinated more than 37.46 million people for COVID-19 as of Tuesday, the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday. The figures comprised over 30.74 million people aged 18 and above […]
People walk along the Cheonggye stream in Seoul on May 2, 2022. (JUNG YEON-JE / AFP) SEOUL / TOKYO / MANILA / YANGON / SINGAPORE / KUALA LUMPUR / NEW DELHI / ISLAMABAD – South Korea reported 66,587 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Tuesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 26,357,464, the […]
A person wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus stands in front of a public awareness notice for COVID-19 protection in Shinjuku district on July 14, 2022, in Tokyo. (EUGENE HOSHIKO / AP) TOKYO / MANILA / YANGON / SINGAPORE / KUALA LUMPUR – New daily COVID-19 infections in Japan will exceed 100,000 […]
In this photo released by the Press Information Department, newly elected Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif addresses during the National Assembly session, in Islamabad, Pakistan on April 11, 2022. (PRESS INFORMATION DEPARTMENT VIA AP) BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / YANGON / SINGAPORE / HANOI / MANILA / SEOUL / KUALA LUMPUR / SYDNEY / TOKYO / NEW DELHI […]
Workers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant at Suri Seri Begawan Raja Pengiran Anak Damit Mosque in an effort to counter the spread of the COVID-19 in Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei on March 17, 2020. (PHOTO / AFP) BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / YANGON / SINGAPORE / HANOI / MANILA – Brunei logged a daily average […]
A photo taken on March 27, 2021 shows the logo on the facade of the new manufacturing site of German company BioNTech for the production of the vaccine against the coronavirus in Marburg, central Germany. (THOMAS LOHNES / AFP) SYDNEY / MANILA / HANOI / SINGAPORE / YANGON / WELLINGTON / SEOUL / KUALA LUMPUR […]
The Coral Princess cruise ship is seen docked at the International Terminal on Circular Quay in Sydney on July 13, 2022. (MUHAMMAD FAROOQ / AFP) SYDNEY / MANILA / HANOI / SINGAPORE / YANGON / WELLINGTON – Australia's Home Affairs Minister on Saturday sought to reassure the public that COVID-19 protocols were adequate after a […]
A man has a sample collected at a drive-through COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Jan 8, 2022. (MARK BAKER / AP) CANBERRA / TOKYO / SINGAPORE / MANILA / HANOI / YANGON / ISLAMABAD – Australia has reported an almost 50 percent increase in new coronavirus cases amid warnings of a […]
People walk down Takeshita Street in the popular Harajuku area of Tokyo on Sept 23, 2022. (RICHARD A. BROOKS / AFP) TOKYO / SINGAPORE / MANILA / HANOI / YANGON – The Japanese government on Thursday decided on a policy to allow each prefectural government to declare stepped-up coronavirus measures, amid growing concerns about the […]
People walk along the Cheonggye stream in Seoul on May 2, 2022. (JUNG YEON-JE / AFP) YANGON / SINGAPORE / MANILA / HANOI / SEOUL / KUALA LUMPUR / NEW DELHI / ISLAMABAD – South Korea recorded 55,365 more COVID-19 cases as of midnight Wednesday compared to 24 hours ago, taking the total number of infections to 26,037,020, […]
A heath worker receives a COVID-19 vaccine at the Ayeyarwaddy COVID treatment center, Jan 27, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. (THEIN ZAW / AP) YANGON / SINGAPORE / MANILA / HANOI / SEOUL / KUALA LUMPUR – Myanmar has vaccinated more than 37 million people for COVID-19 as of Tuesday, the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday. The […]
Staff check a client at a drive-through COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on Jan 8, 2022. (MARK BAKER / AP) TOKYO / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / MANILA / HANOI / YEREVAN / KUALA LUMPUR / SEOUL / NEW DELHI / CANBERRA – Australia's Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Pual Kelly has said the country is in the […]
A person wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus stands in front of a public awareness notice for COVID-19 protection in Shinjuku district on July 14, 2022, in Tokyo. (EUGENE HOSHIKO / AP) TOKYO / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / MANILA / HANOI / YEREVAN – An advisory panel for the finance minister on Monday […]
People wearing masks as a precaution against the coronavirus walk through a market in New Delhi, India, Aug 11, 2022. (ALTAF QADRI / AP) YANGON / MANILA / SINGAPORE / HANOI / NEW DELHI / SEOUL / KUALA LUMPUR / WELLINGTON – India's daily COVID-19 caseload on Monday fell below the 1,000 mark, officials said. According to […]
A woman receives a shot of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in Yangon, Myanmar, Aug 29, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) YANGON / MANILA / SINGAPORE / HANOI – Myanmar has vaccinated more than 37.4 million people for COVID-19 as of Saturday, showed the latest data from the Ministry of Health. The vaccinated people include over 30.7 million people […]
In this file photo taken on October 26, 2022, patients infected in an outbreak of Vibrio cholera receive treatment in a mosque hall converted into a field hospital in the town of Bebnine in the Akkar district in north Lebanon. (IBRAHIM CHALHOUB / AFP) BEIRUT – The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that […]
Commuters leave a train station during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Singapore, Sept 23, 2021. (EDGAR SU / REUTERS) HANOI / MANILA / SINGAPORE – Singapore reported 2,686 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the total tally to 2,121,435. Of the new cases, 299 were detected through PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests and […]
Students wait for their turn to receive their first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Sydney on Aug 9, 2021. (DEAN LEWINS / POOL / AFP) SYDNEY / CANBERRA / SEOUL / KUALA LUMPUR / SINGAPORE / NEW DELHI – Australia has reported an increase in its weekly number of coronavirus cases. In its weekly update […]