China toughened its language towards Taiwan on Thursday (Jan 28), warning after recent stepped up military activities near the island that "independen...

The variant of COVID-19 first discovered in England, which is said to have a higher rate of transmission, has been found in 10 per cent of the COVID-1...

The travel plans of millions were thrown into disarray on Thursday (Jan 28) by cancelled trains, flights and Chinese government "advice" to stay at ho...

Oregon health workers who got stuck in a snowstorm on their way back from a mass COVID-19 vaccination event went car to car injecting stranded drivers...

One week into the job, US President Joe Biden has sent a clear warning to Beijing against any expansionist intentions in East and Southeast Asia.

A World Health Organization (WHO) team has emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the o...

South Korea said on Thursday (Jan 28) it would begin COVID-19 vaccinations for the general public in the third quarter of this year, the Korea Disease...

A senior New Zealand minister advised Australia to adopt his country's softly-softly approach to China on Thursday (Jan 28), a rare public disagreemen...

The Philippines' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the emergency use of AstraZeneca PLC's COVID-19 vaccine, the second to be approved in...

More than 260,000 people affected by tropical cyclone in Mozambique

Health workers in Myanmar on Wednesday (Jan 27) became the first people in the Southeast Asian country to be vaccinated against COVID-19, five days af...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday (Jan 26) issued a firm call to heal America's racial divide, taking several steps and promising more to confront racism...

Italy asked the European Commission on Tuesday to take action against Pfizer over cuts to its COVID-19 vaccine deliveries, the government's special co...

China has administered about 22.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, a health official said on Wednesday (Jan 27), as the country steps up its campai...

The United Nations human rights chief has called for an International Criminal Court investigation into Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist conflict, and san...

Indonesia’s most active volcano erupted on Wednesday (Jan 27) with a river of lava and searing gas clouds flowing 1,500m down its slopes.