HONG KONG: China’s daily new COVID-19 infections hit a peak of more than 7 million per day around Dec 22, while deaths reached a daily peak of more than 4,000 on Jan. 4, the country’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday (Jan…

TAIPEI: Appeasing China will not bring peace, Taiwan’s vice-president said on Wednesday (Jan 18), days after he was elected head of the ruling party in a move that makes him a prime presidential contender at the next election. William Lai, 63, is seen as a likely…

AHMEDABAD: An eight-year-old girl in India who stood to inherit a multi-million-dollar diamond fortune has instead been inducted as a nun to a strict religious order after renouncing worldly pleasures. Devanshi Sanghvi was, until this week, an heiress to the Sanghvi and Sons jewellery business in…

HANOI: Vietnam’s rubber stamp National Assembly on Wednesday (Jan 18) approved the resignation of President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, a day after he dramatically stepped down as part of an anti-corruption drive. His sudden and unprecedented departure comes during a period of significant political upheaval in Vietnam,…

Some aviation experts said footage from the ground of the plane’s last moments indicated the aircraft went into a stall, although it’s unclear why. The search for the only remaining missing person resumed on Wednesday with the help of divers and drones, police said. Workers…

China’s stringent zero-COVID policies that were in place for three years have caused further damage to the country’s demographic outlook, population experts said. China is one of the most expensive places to raise a child, beaten only by South Korea, according to the Beijing-based YuWa…