BANGKOK: Thailand has found a second case of the new Chinese coronavirus, authorities said on Friday (Jan 17), as the country ramped up checks of Chinese visitors ahead of the Lunar New Year's holidays. The Chinese woman, 74, had been quarantined since her arrival on Monday and was found to be ...
SYDNEY: Heavy rain fell on bushfires in eastern Australia on Friday (Jan 17) for a second straight day, offering further relief from a months-long bushfire crisis; but it also meant that koalas and other native animals had to be rescued from an animal park hit by flash floods. This week's wet ...
BEIJING: China's birth rate fell to its lowest last year since the founding of the People's Republic of China 70 years ago, posing a long-term challenge for its government. The country's birth rate stood at 10.48 per thousand, the lowest since 1949, data from the National Bureau of Statistics ...
A Canadian court on Monday will consider a US request to hand over Chinese tech executive Meng Wanzhou, whose arrest 13 months ago on fraud charges plunged Canada-China relations into a deep freeze.
BEIJING: China's economy weakened to its slowest pace in three decades last year as weaker domestic demand and trade tensions with the United States took their toll, official data showed Friday (Jan 17). The world's second-largest economy grew 6.1 per cent in 2019, the slowest in 29 years but ...
TOKYO: Japanese environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi, who has said he will take paternity leave in a rare move for a Japanese man, announced on Friday (Jan 17) the birth of his first child: A boy. Koizumi, son of charismatic former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi and seen as a future leader ...
SHANGHAI: A second person has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan following an outbreak of a previously unknown virus, local health authorities said late on Thursday (Jan 16). The 69-year-old man had been admitted to hospital with abnormal renal function and severe damage to ...