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Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited soldiers who were wounded during fighting in Ukraine. The May 25, 2022, appearance was the first time Putin is known to have visited wounded troops since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Dressed in white medical coat, Putin spoke with soldiers at Moscow’s Mand…
Parts of Beijing are under lockdown to control the Chinese capital’s recent outbreaks of Covid-19. The city has confirmed 1,729 cases since April 22, 2022. Many shopping centres have turned off most of their lights and closed the majority of the shops inside in response to citywide orders to restrict activities in a…
Malaysia announced on May 23, 2022, that it will stop the export of chickens from June 1 to ensure there is sufficient supply in the domestic market. “The government’s priority is our own people,” Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said in a statement. Malaysian customers have complained of rising chicken prices ami…
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Some lucky dogs in Japan were able to join their owners on board a special bullet train journey on May 21, 2022. The pilot scheme organised by Japan Railways allowed the animals in carriages on a one-hour ride from Tokyo’s Ueno station to the resort town of Karuizawa. Organisers hope to set up similar rides in the f…
A severe shortage of medicines was spreading across Sri Lanka as of May 23, 2022, with doctors saying they fear the crisis could be deadly for some of their patients who otherwise would be saved. The country imports most of its medical supplies, and with foreign currency reserves drying up amid a recent economic cri…
CanSino’s Covid-19 vaccine has been approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization, making it the third Chinese product to be given the green light for international use. Post reporter Holly Chik speaks with the CEO of Chinese vaccine producer CanSino, Yu Xuefeng, about the new vaccine and what it means…
The global spread of monkeypox outside Africa is causing alarm, but experts say it is not likely to infect people like the coronavirus epidemic has. First identified in monkeys, monkeypox typically spreads through close contact and largely occurs in west and central Africa. Monkeypox is usually a mild viral illness,…
Every day for the past week, a North Korean health official named Ryu Yong-chol has appeared on state television at 9:30am to report on the country’s Covid-19 outbreak. He has become the public face of the isolated country’s battle against the epidemic, similar to Dr Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the US Pr…
Around 300 protesters gathered outside the historic Fort railway station in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on May 18, 2022. They called for the arrest of former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa who resigned on May 9, while his younger brother, Gotabaya, continued to rule as president. Sri Lanka has been facing its w…
Taiwan posted a new daily record of Covid-19 cases on May 18, 2022, as the island undergoes its second coronavirus wave that started in early April, sparked by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. The island’s health ministry records 225 deaths in the past week and acknowledges the virus is spreading rapidly am…
Some restaurants have set up stalls on the pavement for takeaway as the Chinese capital Beijing has banned people from dining out, in a bid to contain its small Covid-19 outbreak. The ban on people consuming food inside restaurants, imposed on May 1, 2022, means eateries in the city have to rely on takeaway to survi…
Unvaccinated North Korea is battling drug shortages amid a surge in Covid-19 cases. As of May 17, 2022, North Korea has reported 1.72 million cases of “fever” and 62 deaths. The country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, slammed officials for their “non-positive attitude, slackness and non-activity” in handling the Covid-19 out…
The doctor who died in the Laguna Woods church shooting in California on May 15, 2022, has been hailed as a hero. Dr John Cheng died from a gunshot wound after he tackled the shooter to the ground. According to Orange County sheriff Donald Barnes, his action saved dozens of lives. The suspect, David Chou, is a Chine…
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As daily Covid-19 infection numbers continue to drop, Shanghai health authorities plan to start lifting the months-long lockdown, beginning June 1, 2022. The prolonged city wide lockdown since April 1 emptied the city’s streets and wreaked havoc on the global supply chain. Shanghai’s airports resumed limited domesti…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said on May 14, 2022, that the country’s first reported Covid-19 outbreak has put the country in “great turmoil” and called for an all-out battle to overcome the epidemic. The statement, reported by the country’s state media, followed Pyongyang’s first official report on May 12 of a C…
A dim sum restaurant owner in Chicago has fused the best of traditional Cantonese cuisine and Chicago culture. Spencer Ng, a second-generation business owner, took over his parent’s restaurant determined to further develop his family’s centuries-old Cantonese tradition. Amid the economic recession brought on by the …
An animal hospital in India says it has treated thousands of fallen birds in the past few weeks. Soaring temperatures have dried up water supplies that normally sustain bird life. Birds are reportedly dropping out of trees and from the sky due to dehydration.
Residents in the Chinese capital Beijing flocked to supermarkets to stock up on food, hoping to avoid Shanghai-style shortages in case of a citywide lockdown. The capital recorded 36 Covid-19 cases on May 12, 2022. Some districts in the city have seen tighter curbs, including taxi and ride-hailing service suspension…
Cremation has become more common in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic and a new way of mourning has emerged – turning loved ones’ ashes or hair into diamonds as keepsakes. The process aims to help the grieving process and lets mourners honour and memorialise their loved ones. The trend grew as social di…
North Korea officially confirmed what it said was its first outbreak of Covid-19 on May 12, 2022, following the discovery of a sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron virus in Pyongyang. State media KCNA reported it as “the biggest emergency incident in the country”. North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, ordere…
Beijing has implemented harsh Covid-19 restrictions to control the city’s recent virus outbreaks. The capital has confirmed 892 Covid-19 cases since April 22, 2022. Beijing’s central business district has been deserted due to strengthening Covid restrictions. Authorities have asked all people in the Chaoyang distric…
Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist for Al Jazeera, was killed while covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank on May 11, 2022. Her Palestinian producer, Ali al-Samoudi, was shot in the back and is in stable condition in hospital. Both were wearing press vests.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on May 10, 2022, that China’s zero-tolerance Covid-19 policy is not sustainable given what is now known of the virus. It was a rare public comment by the UN agency on a government’s handling of the pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said increased knowledge abou…
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A 77-year-old Norwegian man, Herman Aschjem, was arrested for allegedly stabbing a neighbour and a relative with a kitchen knife in central Thailand. He was reportedly intoxicated with alcohol when he barged into his cousin’s home in Mueang district, Chaiyaphum province, on May 3, 2022. The foreigner attacked his co…
After more than two years of pandemic-era restrictions on travel and mass gatherings, life is starting to return to normal, as some Asia-Pacific countries drop their Covid-19 restrictions. From Japan to New Zealand, airports were welcoming travellers once again. In Indonesia, Muslims celebrating the Eid ul-Fitr holi…
Baseball is a national obsession in South Korea and Japan and for the first time since the pandemic, crowds returned to the stands to sing, dance and cheer on their favourite teams. The sport takes on a unique flavour in Asia, where fans perform theme songs for individual players and cheerleaders, which are absent f…
To prevent residents from leaving their flats during lockdown, some pandemic workers used wires and iron bolts to barricade the doors from the outside in northern China’s Hebei province.
The annual rocket competition in Thailand’s Pathum Thani province kicked off on May 1, 2022, for the first time since the pandemic started. The tradition is a way for ethnic Mon people to honour deceased Buddhist monks. The “Look Noo” rockets are stuffed with explosives and wired to cables before being launched at p…
A video shared widely on Chinese social media shows an elderly person outside the Shanghai Xinchangzheng welfare hospital in Putuo district, Shanghai, mistaken for dead. While being transported to a morgue on May 1, 2022, the man was discovered alive. He has since been taken back to the hospital and is in stable con…
A video shared widely on Chinese social media shows an elderly person outside the Shanghai Xinchangzheng welfare hospital in Putuo district, Shanghai, was mistaken for dead. While being transported to a morgue on May 1, 2022, the man was discovered alive. He has since been taken back to the hospital and is in stable…
Police have arrested nine people suspected of covering up the shoddy construction and unsafe conditions of a six-storey building that collapsed in the Chinese city of Changsha, in central China. At least 39 people were missing, most of them students of the nearby Changsha Medical University, after the mixed-use buil…
South Korean professor Kang Dong-wan used to learn about North Korean culture by meeting with tourists in Chinese cities. Restricted travel due to the Covid-19 pandemic has made his job more difficult, but not impossible. Since September 2020, Dong-wan has collected some 2,000 pieces of rubbish washed ashore on Sout…
Taiwan’s health officials said they remain committed to living with the virus, as the self-ruled island’s Covid-19 cases exceeded 11,000 a day on April 28, 2022. Health minister Chen Shih-chung said Taiwan is likely facing a new pandemic wave, with daily cases peaking between 40,000 and 100,000 before it starts subs…
A Japanese woman recognised as the world’s oldest person, Kane Tanaka, has died aged 119, just months short of her 120th birthday. Tanaka died on April 19, 2022, at a hospital in Fukuoka, her hometown in southern Japan where she spent all of her life. The Guinness Book of Records recognised her as the oldest person …
Hundreds of Singaporeans staged a candlelight vigil on April 25, 2022, to protest the death penalty for a Malaysian man named Nagaenthran Dharmalingam. He was arrested in 2009 for trafficking 43 grams (1.5 ounces) of heroin into Singapore. His execution date is set for April 27. Protestors said he should be spared b…
Shanghai resident Kumi Wu was already recovering from a sore throat when she received the order to quarantine at a makeshift Covid-19 hospital in Shanghai’s Pudong district. The 26-year-old began recording her experience entering a system stretched thin by the city’s ongoing lockdowns amid its worst coronavirus outb…
The Chinese capital of Beijing ordered mass testing of some 20 million residents, spread across 10 districts and one zone on April 25, 2022. The city has recorded 80 Covid-19 cases over the last four days, sparking concerns of a potential lockdown as Shanghai, 1,100km (684 miles) to the south, enters a fourth week o…
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Researchers in Beijing said they have developed a robot rat that they hope can be used in post-disaster rescue missions. The team behind the invention, from Beijing Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University, said the rat can squeeze through narrow spaces, climb slopes, get past obstacles and walk on snow. It c…
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Around 59,600 Ukrainians in the US are eligible to apply to remain for up to 18 months under an expanded Temporary Protected Status programme. This has allowed Ukrainians to cross the border faster than other asylum seekers, including Augusto Martinez, a Honduran migrant waiting for the end of a pandemic-era expulsi…
A 35-year-old breast cancer patient had a wonderful wedding photoshoot with her husband and son recently, which went viral online. Although she lost her hair due to chemotherapy, she isn’t afraid to show off her bald head. By sharing daily life videos on social media platforms, she wants to bring positivity to her f…
Shanghai reported its first fatalities from the current Covid-19 wave on April 18, 2022. All three patients who died were over the age of 85 and unvaccinated. The first batch of deaths reported from the latest wave came as the city’s residents continue to cope with stringent measures imposed by the city. Among them …
Three Chinese astronauts safely returned to Earth aboard the Shenzhou 13 capsule on April 16, 2022, after spending 182 days in orbit aboard China’s Tiangong space station. Astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu were all in good physical and mental shape after landing in China’s Inner Mongolia autonomo…
