Tag: COVID-19

HONG KONG: The world's top dragon boat competition will ditch Hong Kong in favour of Thailand next year due to the city's stringent coronavirus rules, organisers announced on Saturday (Sep ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan is eyeing an earlier end to its mandatory quarantine for all arrivals and has been making relevant preparations, Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Friday (Sep 16), as the ...

BEIJING: The Chinese city of Chengdu will on Thursday (Sep 15) lift a full COVID-19 lockdown in all districts still facing curbs as a recent outbreak comes under control, local ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian government will procure new COVID-19 vaccines which are tailored to fight new strains of the virus, said Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin. The vaccines will be administered ...

TOKYO: Japan's government is planning to waive tourist visa requirements as part of a further easing of border controls enacted to stop the spread of COVID-19, Fuji News Network reported ...

'SENSE OF DOOM' Schools offering up overseas curricula have traditionally been a big draw for the ex-pat professionals that Hong Kong relies on for its reputation as a cosmopolitan finance ...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong will scrap its quarantine rules for locally based airline crew from Saturday (Sep 10), the government said on Friday, a key step in unwinding draconian COVID-19 ...

SHENZHEN: When COVID-19 case numbers started ticking up in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen last week, Robin Chen got in his car and fled to nearby Huizhou. It wasn't ...

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has suggested that the isolated country could begin COVID-19 vaccinations in November, state media reported on Friday (Sep 9). In a speech on ...

CHICAGO: Scott Taylor never got to move on from COVID-19. The 56-year-old, who caught the disease in spring 2020, still had not recovered about 18 months later when he killed ...