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A delivery service vehicle tipped over on a slippery road in Tseung Kwan O in Hong Kong’s New Territories on October 13, 2021, amid a heavy rainstorm caused by Typhoon Kompasu. The driver was sent to hospital for examination, according to a colleague who spoke to the Post. One person died in a separate road accident…
Florida developers have started construction on the world’s first Covid-19-conscious and pandemic-ready skyscraper. The building in Miami, called the Legacy Tower, will feature bacteria-killing robots, touchless technology and modern air-purification systems which will aim to protect residents against future pandemi…
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A suicide bombing at a packed Shia mosque in Afghanistan killed more than 70 people on October 8, 2021, local health officials told Reuters. More than 140 were injured in the explosion that detonated during the crowded Friday prayers, according to state-run Bakhtar News Agency.
A drugs crackdown is the latest sign of the Taliban making its presence known in the Afghan capital Kabul. The militant group that seized power in the country in August 2021 has reportedly been rounding up illicit drug users since late September, as part of its efforts to impose a harsh interpretation of sharia Isla…
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The World Health Organization on October 6, 2021, approved the first vaccine shown to prevent malaria, recommending it be rolled out for children in African nations where the infectious disease is endemic. Developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, the vaccine, called RTS,S – or Mosquirix – marked a major advan…
China’s Shenzhen Luohu People's Hospital has unveiled the first fully automated nasal swab-collecting robot. The robot uses a camera and force-control technology to identify precisely where to inject the swab. It also has deep-learning technology to help improve the robot’s performance. Experts say the idea behind t…
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre has been retraining dogs to sniff out the Covid-19 virus. The animals in the programme originally were put to work detecting underground explosives in the country where an estimated 4-6 million landmines were buried during the nation’s 1968-1975 civil war. Handlers say dogs are more …
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on October 5, 2021, that the country’s "return to zero" goal for combating Covid-19 would be difficult to achieve after an outbreak of the highly transmissible Delta variant. Ardern says the country will have to transition from heavy lockdowns to a larger focus on vacci…
At least five civilians have been killed by a roadside bombing at the entrance to a mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on October 3, 2021. An Italian-funded emergency hospital said it is treating four other people who were injured in the blast. It was the first major attack in Kabul since a suicide bombing at the …
Tony Chung is working on his master’s degree in Biomedical Science and has long dreamed of going to medical school. But the Covid-19 pandemic has him considering an additional goal, working alongside his father running a Vietnamese restaurant, Pasteur Grill and Noodles, in New York’s Chinatown. “I started to help ou…
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The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games will be held without overseas spectators, the International Olympic Committee announced on September 29, 2021. Organisers in Beijing are planning to stage the second Games held during the Covid-19 pandemic with more stringent measures than in Tokyo, including a closed bubble, va…
Former foreign minister Fumio Kishida was elected to lead Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in a run-off vote on September 29, 2021. His victory virtually ensures that Kishida will succeed Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in the post since the LDP holds a majority in the country’s parliament. Kishida was on…
A brawl broke out on the floor of Taiwan's legislature on September 28, 2021, after opposition lawmakers interrupted an annual address by the chamber's head, Su Tseng-chang. While Su was delivering the speech on the government's performance, the lawmakers rushed to the podium, sparking a melee during which several p…
A shipment of 3,493 shark fins destined for Hong Kong was confiscated by Colombian authorities on September 23, 2021. According to environmental authorities in the capital Bogota, 900-1,000 sharks measuring 1-5 metres (3-16ft) would have been killed for the amount of fins seized. Colombian police are handling the in…
China had fully vaccinated about 78 per cent of its population against Covid-19 as of September 22, 2021, after getting two doses of the shots into the arms of 1.1 billion of the nation’s 1.41 billion people. Government figures as of September 25 said a total of 2.19 billion doses have been administered ahead of the…
The World Food Programme said on September 23, 2021, that only 5 per cent of Afghan families have enough to eat daily. This comes as the nation faces the second severe drought in three years. Complicated by other issues, including an economic crisis following the takeover of the Taliban as well as the Covid-19 pande…
A widespread alcohol sale restriction as part of Covid-19 measures has one of Japan’s largest izakaya – or pub – chains embracing a hi-tech, but low staff solution: robot servers. Miki Watanabe, the CEO of Watami, is converting 40 per cent of his izakayas into barbecue, or yakiniku, restaurants to curb mounting loss…
Afghanistan’s crumbling health care system will see an injection of US$45 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund, according to the world body’s humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths. Announcing the release of funds on September 22, 2021, Griffiths said the move is meant to keep hospitals and other health …
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The Australian city of Melbourne continued to be racked by protests on September 22, 2021. For the third straight day, demonstrators marched in the capital of the southeastern state of Victoria to oppose Covid-19 lockdowns and mandatory vaccine rules in the construction industry. Riot police and mounted units later …
Hongkongers are subject to some of the world’s toughest pandemic-related travel restrictions, decimating the city’s tourism industry. However, the SCMP's Mercedes Hutton says it’s not just travel that “fortress” Hong Kong’s barricades are hurting – the spirit of the city itself is being eroded.
Health officials in the Thai capital Bangkok arranged for about 1,500 pupils aged 12-18 to get Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations on September 21, 2021. Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang has set a goal of getting vaccines into the arms of 70 per cent of the city’s estimated over 1 million students aged 12 to 18 by November…
Bat researchers in Cambodia are on a mission to help track the origins of the pandemic by collecting samples from horseshoe bats in the country’s northern regions near Laos. Coronaviruses considered very similar to Covid-19 were found in animals in the area a decade ago, and in bats as recently as 2020. Bats have be…
Thousands of devotees have amassed in cities across India on September 19, 2021, for immersion ceremonies marking the last day of the 10-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival which took place as a high number of coronavirus cases continued to be reported across the country. During the Visarjan ceremonies, devotees head to b…
When Wong Yee-nga’s flat was broken into and ransacked in July 2019, the 82-year-old woman was left distraught that she spent more than a year sleeping at 24-hour McDonald’s branches. When the Hong Kong government banned overnight dine-in services at restaurants because of the coronavirus pandemic, she ended up spen…
About 200 taxis left idle by Covid-19 pandemic curbs have been transformed into mini vegetable gardens and frog ponds in the Thai capital Bangkok. Many drivers have left for their home villages since Thailand imposed tough pandemic restrictions, including a curfew, to deal with a deadly spike in coronavirus cases …
The three Chinese astronauts who spent a record three months on China’s Tiangong space station landed safely in the afternoon of September 17, 2021. Their landmark mission represents a milestone in the country’s ambitious space programme. The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said the re-entry capsule carrying the a…
Two white terriers, named Sasha and Piper, are among a growing number of pet influencers on social media in Singapore. The lucrative trend is fuelled by a rise in online shopping and pet ownership during the Covid-19 pandemic. With 24,000 Instagram followers, the duo bring in about S$500 (US$373) for each marketing …
Wearing a face mask in most public spaces has been mandatory in Hong Kong since July 2020 as part of the city’s battle against the pandemic. But face masks have had a negative impact on the daily lives of the city's hearing-impaired community, especially for those who lip-read to communicate. Hong Kong’s Lingnan Uni…
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The northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has been hit by an outbreak of dengue fever since September 2021. At least 58 people, many of them children, have died in one of its districts alone, amid growing concern that Uttar Pradesh is facing its worst outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in years. Hospitals in th…
