PHONM PENH: A shipment of 324,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine will arrive at Phnom Penh International Airport on Tuesday evening, according to a joint press release published by the Ministry of Health, the United Nations Children...

SINGAPORE: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (Asean) foreign ministers will hold a special meeting on Tuesday to discuss Myanmar, Singapore's foreign minister said, calling for the immediate release of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

LOS ANGELES: Britain's Prince Harry, who has blamed press intrusion for contributing to his mother Princess Diana's death in 1997, has told US chat show host Oprah Winfrey he was worried about history repeating itself.

Manufacturing engines across Asia ground ahead last month, with most continuing to expand during the volatile Lunar New Year holiday period.

DUBAI: The United Nations said it hopes to raise $3.85 billion on Monday to prevent large-scale famine in Yemen, warning that life in the war-ravaged nation was unbearable, with children enduring a "special kind of hell".

BEIJING: China is using the Covid-19 pandemic as "yet another way to control journalists", a press group said Monday, warning that Beijing has introduced extra surveillance and restrictions for health reasons as tools to frustrate reporters' work.

WELLINGTON: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern urged New Zealanders to "call out" Covid-19 rule-breakers Monday, as public anger built over a series of infringements that forced the country's largest city back into lockdown.

SAMUT SAKHON: The Central Shrimp Market of this coastal province reopened on Monday after being closed since Dec 19, when the second wave of Covid-19 began spreading from there.

The Philippines launched its Covid-19 vaccination drive on Monday, with health workers, soldiers, police and government officials first in line to get donated Chinese jabs despite concerns over their effectiveness.

Thirty-three people were confirmed injured during the pro-democracy rally outside the 1st Infantry Regiment barracks in Bangkok on Sunday night, and 22 protesters were detained by police.