GENEVA: The World Health Organisation said a lack of data was making it challenging to help China manage the risks of a COVID-19 surge over the Chinese New Year holiday, as the world’s second-largest economy reopens after three years of isolation. The holiday, known before…

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation said a lack of data was making it challenging to help China manage the risks of a COVID-19 surge over the Chinese New Year holiday, as the world’s second-largest economy reopens after three years of isolation. The holiday, known before…

OSLO: The 1973 Nobel Peace Prize to top US diplomat Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho, among the most disputed in the award’s history, was given in the full knowledge the Vietnam War was unlikely to end any time soon, newly released papers…

BEIJING: Chinese health officials said Wednesday (Jan 11) it was “not necessary” to dwell on the exact number of COVID-19 deaths in the country, days after the World Health Organization (WHO) criticised authorities’ accounting of a surge in cases there. China abruptly dropped its “zero-COVID”…

A spokesperson for the activist group Justice for Myanmar said the discovery also indicated Min Aung Hlaing’s family was hiding assets in Thailand and urged the Thai government to take “urgent action to prevent it from becoming a safe haven for Myanmar war criminals by…

“The national immigration authorities have, with immediate effect, suspended the issuance of visas for Korean and Japanese citizens and the 72/144-hour visa-free transit policy for South Korean and Japanese citizens,” China’s National Immigration Administration said in a statement. Travellers from scores of countries are eligible…