SHANGHAI: The Chinese language city of Chengdu will continue to impose COVID lockdown curbs in most of the city and conduct more city-wide mass testing through Monday to Wed (Sep 4), the city’s government announced on Sunday. The southern metropolis, which positioned its 21 mil people under lockdown on Thursday,Continue Reading
THREE-TIER MANAGEMENT Based on the results of the weekend testing, Shenzhen will classify its areas into three categories, reflecting low, medium, and high risk of infection, Lin said. In areas deemed low risk, the city will remove restrictions that confined much of its population to residential compounds over the weekend,Continue Reading
BEIJING/SHANGHAI: China’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen, which went into a weekend lockdown upon Saturday (Sep 3) for mass COVID-19 testing, said it can adopt tiered anti-virus restriction measures beginning on Monday. The city furthermore announced a new round of COVID-19 tests, vowing to “marshal all available sources, mobilise allContinue Reading
KARACHI: Authorities in flood-hit Pakistan strategically breached the country’s largest freshwater lake on Sunday (Sep 4), a minister said, displacing up to 100,000 people from their homes but saving more densely populated areas from gathering flood water. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in Pakistan’s northern mountains have brought floodsContinue Reading
FAZILPUR, Pakistan: Truck driver and father-of-seven Mureed Hussain was planning for his daughter’s October wedding when floodwater inundated his home, taking away the entire back wall and, with it, her hard-earned dowry. “I had been collecting her dowry for almost three years,” Hussain told AFP from the courtyard of hisContinue Reading
TOKYO: A Japanese government panel tasked with tackling rising prices and wage issues will meet on Friday and consider additional policy measures that should be taken, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Sunday (Sep 4). Speaking to reporters in northern Japan’s Niigata prefecture, Kishida said the government should consider reviewingContinue Reading
HONG KONG: China’s CanSino Biologics Inc said on Sunday (Sep 4) that its recently developed COVID-19 vaccine has been approved by the country’s drug regulator for emergency use as a booster, potentially benefiting its business. The inhaled version of CanSino’s adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccine has obtained the green light from theContinue Reading
SHANGHAI: China’s top legislator Li Zhanshu will attend the seventh Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok this week, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday (Sep 4), becoming the most senior Chinese official to visit Russia since the Ukraine war began. Li, chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee,Continue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was discharged from hospital on Sunday after being admitted for COVID-19, his office said in a statement. The 97-year-old, who served for more than two decades as prime minister and is still an active lawmaker, has a history of heart troubles. HeContinue Reading
Trolling has become lucrative for more than a few Filipinos, and it entered high gear for this year’s Philippine elections. The programme Undercover Asia gained entry to the shadowy networks spreading falsehoods to get politicians.Continue Reading