WHO vaccine experts said Wednesday that an interim analysis of clinical trial data from two Chinese COVID-19 vaccines showed they demonstrated “safety and good efficacy”, but...
BioNTech-Pfizer said Wednesday their vaccine showed 100 percent efficacy against the coronavirus in 12 to 15 year olds, as they eye approval for adolescents to get...
A senior BBC correspondent said Wednesday he had left China, after facing legal threats and pressure from authorities over his reporting on Xinjiang rights abuses and...
China deflected questions over an investigation into the origins of Covid-19 on Wednesday, after the WHO chief revived a theory it may have leaked from a...
Five pro-democracy activists in Thailand were charged Wednesday with the rarely used criminal offence of attempting to harm the queen, over an encounter with a royal...
Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears in good health despite two months of detention, her legal team said Wednesday as diplomatic pressure on...
An Indonesian national who was working as a domestic helper to a physically challenged elderly woman was found lying at the foot of a block of...
For the period from 1 April to 30 June 2021, electricity tariff before GST will increase by an average of 8.7 per cent or 1.77 cents...
by Teo Soh Lung Read the caption on this photo, taken from The Straits Times on 26 January 2021. “Supporters of Ms Zhou Xiaoxuan outside a...
Some 50 Myanmar refugees who fled air strikes to neighbouring Thailand “voluntarily” returned across the border Wednesday, Thai authorities said, despite reports of continued bombings in...
