With China-bashing appearing to have become a convenient and lazy way for Western politicians to divert attention from the issues in their own countries, the most sensible response on Beijing's part is a cool-headed reminder that sorting things out in their own house would serve them better than blaming China. Which is what a spokesperson […]
A security guard patrols around the Opera House on Oct 11, 2021, as Sydney ended their lockdown against the COVID-19 coronavirus after 106 days. (SAEED KHAN / AFP) Australia is grappling with a new wave of COVID-19 infections in its winter season, with case numbers rising due to highly transmissible Omicron variants. The fresh outbreak […]
HONG KONG, Jul 24, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Gotion High-tech Co., Ltd. (“Gotion High-tech” or the “Company”) announced on the evening of July 22 that the Company recently received the “Approval for Gotion High-tech Co., Ltd.’s initial public offering of Global Depositary Receipts and listing on the SIX Swiss Exchange AG” issued […]
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) MANILA / HANOI / SINGAPORE / YANGON / YEREVAN / JERUSALEM / BAGHDAD / RIYADH / DHAKA / KUALA LUMPUR / WELLINGTON / SUVA / SEOUL / CANBERRA – Australians' confidence in the country's healthcare system has fallen, a […]
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) MANILA / HANOI / YANGON / SEOUL / KUALA LUMPUR […]
Passengers and loved ones reunite at the arrivals hall on the first day of New Zealanders returning from Australia after the border reopened for travelers observing home self-isolation rules, at the Auckland international airport on Feb 28, 2022. (DAVID ROWLAND / AFP) MANILA / KUWAIT CITY / BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / NEW DELHI / SYDNEY / […]
Orwa Staif, a Syrian student in the city of Kharkiv, looks out of the balcony of his parents' apartment in Nuremberg, Germany, on March 3, 2022. (AP) BERLIN – The number of Syrians who became naturalized German citizens was three times higher in 2021 than the year before, as many of those who fled between […]
Mami Kaneko (right) smiles while holding her baby born on the first day of Japan's 'Reiwa' era, next to her husband (left) at a hospital in Kawagoe city, Saitama prefecture on May 1, 2019. (JIJI PRESS / AFP) TOKYO – Japan recorded a record low number of births in 2021, prompting the biggest ever natural […]
A woman walks into a pharmacy to purchase medicine in Pyongyang on May 27, 2022. (KIM WON JIN / AFP) SEOUL – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s daily fever cases dropped to below 100,000 for the first time, state media said on Saturday, less than three weeks after the country's first acknowledgement of a […]
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) NEW DELHI / HANOI / SINGAPORE / DHAKA / CANBERRA / SEOUL / TOKYO – Australia's top health authority has flagged a move away from reporting the number of coronavirus deaths in the country […]
Hong Kong’s top badminton player Angus Ng has withdrawn from the Swiss Open having tested positive for coronavirus after arriving in Basel. The 27-year-old was hoping to use this tournament to climb back into the world’s top ten. He had been seeded sixth. That leaves world number 17 Lee Cheuk-yiu as Hong Kong’s only representative. […]
Pedestrians walk past an electronic quotation board displaying stock prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on Feb 28, 2022. (KAZUHIRO NOGI / AFP) TOKYO – The number of women who died by suicide in Japan rose for a second straight year in 2021 although the overall number of people who took their own […]
Daniil Medvedev was sent crashing out of the Indians Wells Masters in a stunning defeat to Gael Monfils on Monday that ended the Russian’s three-week reign as world number one. French world number 28 Monfils produced a vintage performance to down Medvedev 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 in just over two hours to advance to the fourth […]
Former world number one Andy Murray notched a milestone win and US Open champion Emma Raducanu made a victorious return from injury in a one-two punch for Britain on Friday at the Indian Wells WTA and ATP Masters hardcourt tennis tournament. Murray, a three-time Grand Slam champion now ranked 88th in the world and playing […]
Police stand guard as people take part in a rally against COVID-19 coronavirus vaccinations, outside the main gates at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan 22, 2022. (MARTIN KEEP / AFP) KUALA LUMPUR / GAZA / SINGAPORE / HANOI / SEOUL – Australian police have given thousands of protesters until the end […]
Protesters gather in wet conditions as they voice their opposition to coronavirus vaccine mandates at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, Feb 12, 2022. (GEORGE HEARD / NZME VIA AP) BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN / BISHKEK / CANBERRA / YANGON / SEOUL – Days-long rallies against COVID-19 vaccination mandates picked up in numbers in New Zealand and […]
A health worker (right) walks past people queueing up for coronavirus swab tests outside a gymnasium in Manila on Jan 7, 2022. (STR / AFP) NEW DELHI / JAKARTA / SINGAPORE / KUWAIT CITY / JERUSALEM / BEIRUT / ANKARA / SUVA / SYDNEY / SEOUL / WELLINGTON / TOKYO / MANILA / COLOMBO – The Philippines will allow entry of fully […]
This photo taken on May 24, 2017 shows a social worker caring for babies at the Jusarang Community Church in southern Seoul. (JUNG YEON-JE / AFP) SEOUL – South Korea's childbirth hit a record low in November 2021, fueling worry about the so-called demographic cliff, statistical office data showed Wednesday. The number of newborn babies […]
Crowds gather at Mrs Macquarie's Point ahead of the New Year's Eve fireworks display in Sydney on Dec 31, 2021. (DAVID GRAY / AFP) SYDNEY / JERUSALEM / ANKARA – Australia started 2022 with a record number of new COVID-19 cases as an outbreak centred in the eastern states grew, and New South Wales eased […]
TOKYO, Nov 30, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that the company will conduct a total of 42 poster presentations, including the latest data on its in-house discovered and developed anti-epileptic agent (AED) perampanel (product name: Fycompa) and in-house discovered and developed E2730, an investigational novel small compound for […]
A four-year-old girl receives COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Xuhui district of Shanghai, East China, Nov 20, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) There seems to be enough reason for people to be concerned about the new Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. Scientists have found that it contains several mutations that could help it […]
Visitors gather at a booth promoting "5G plus industrial internet" during the 2021 China 5G+ Industrial Internet Conference in Wuhan, Hubei province, over the weekend. (GAO YONG / CHANGJIANG DAILY) The world in general, and China in particular, is entering a new era of technological innovations enabled by not only 5G technology, but also artificial […]
Novak Djokovic began his attempt to equal Roger Federer’s record number of ATP Finals triumphs with a straight-sets 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 win over Casper Ruud on Monday. World number one Djokovic is looking to complete a remarkable year with a sixth Finals title after only just missing out on claiming all four Grand Slams in […]
World number one Novak Djokovic won a sixth Paris title and record 37th Masters crown on Sunday, beating 2020 champion Daniil Medvedev 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the final. The 34-year-old Serbian gained a measure of revenge over his Russian opponent who dashed his dreams of a Grand Slam sweep in the US Open final in […]
TOKYO, Oct 8, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; TSE:4004) hereby announces that, in connection with the issuance of new shares by way of the Third-Party Allotment, which its board of directors resolved on August 23, 2021 concurrently with the resolution on the issuance of new shares by way of […]
Naomi Osaka dropped out of the world’s top 10 on Monday for the first time since winning the 2018 US Open title as she continues to take a break from tennis. The Japanese star, a former world number one, has not played since exiting the US Open in the third round last month. Osaka has […]
In this Aug 30, 2021 photo, pedestrians at promenade, opposite the Sydney Opera House, are reflected in a building at The Rocks in Sydney, Australia. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG) SYDNEY / DHAKA / TEHRAN / JERUSALEM / KUALA LUMPUR / ULAN BATOR / YANGON / KATHMANDU / WELLINGTON / ANKARA – Australia plans to open its […]
TOKYO, Sep 8, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Showa Denko K.K. (TSE:4004) hereby announces that, relating to the issuance of new shares of its common stock which its board of directors resolved on August 23, 2021, the number of shares to be issued by exercise of the option to purchase additional newly issued […]
Roger Federer faced serious questions over his future on Wednesday after crashing out of Wimbledon in the quarter-finals, just five weeks shy of his 40th birthday. Eight-time Wimbledon champion and 20-time Grand Slam title winner Federer lost 6-3, 7-6 (7/4), 6-0 to a Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz, a player 15 years his junior. It was only […]
UEFA said Thursday it was scrapping the away goals rule for all of its club competitions from next season. Introduced in 1965, the rule was used to determine the winner of a two-legged knockout tie in cases where the two teams had scored the same number of goals on aggregate over the two matches. From […]