Health Minister Ma Xiaowei tells party journal the bottom line is to prevent outbreaks and consolidate hard-won results.

With public beaches and playgrounds closed under city’s social-distancing curbs, residents packed onto ferries to reach outlying destinations.

Images of C/2014 UN271 – a comet 128km in diameter and completing an orbit of the sun every few million years – were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

People in South Korea will still be required to wear masks, however, with the government planning to review whether to lift a rule for masks outdoors in two weeks.

Sri Lanka is in the grip of its worst ever economic crisis, as the country deals with shortages of fuel, food and essential medicines, and is seeking up to US$4 billion from the IMF.

Syrian fighters have reportedly signed up to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, including Syrian soldiers, former rebels and experienced fighters who fought for years against Islamic State in Syria’s desert.

Leading paediatrician urges parents to get their children vaccinated ahead of a resumption of in-person classes.

President Joko Widodo’s appointment of Maudy Ayunda is being criticised as a way to woo Indonesia’s young population that is battling high unemployment.

Pyongyang’s recent weapons test came a day before an annual US-South Korea military drill, and ahead of a visit to Seoul by the US envoy for North Korea

The war in Ukraine is one of the fastest-growing displacement and humanitarian crises ever.

New party revelations threaten another difficult week for Boris Johnson, who was recently fined for breaking lockdown restrictions by attending his own birthday gathering in June 2020.

Chinese companies have large investments in Guinea, and about half of China’s imports of bauxite – a mineral used to make aluminium – are from the West African nation.

Shootings in South Carolina and one in Pittsburgh, in which two minors were killed early Sunday, also left at least 31 people wounded.

China’s economy grew by 4.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2022 compared with a year earlier, up from the 4 per cent growth seen in the fourth quarter, data released on Monday showed.

Local authorities are embarking on a plan to gradually restore production and business activity in China’s commercial centre after more than two weeks of lockdown

The city state is studying a future with nuclear energy as it seeks to diversify its energy sources to reach net-zero emissions in the second half of the century.

Singapore was among the first in Asia to ease travel restrictions by establishing vaccinated travel lanes, while travel in Hong Kong has slowed to a trickle.

Officials freed to work on pandemic, but lawmakers hope the limit on questions does not set a precedent

The event, that starts after darkness, involves six wooden wheels that are filled with straw, set alight, then rolled down a hillside into the valley of the Emmer river.

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The Wall Street Journal reported that Riyadh’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gave Hadi a written decree delegating his powers to the council.

Potential strategies include tightening Beijing’s own legislation, finding areas for joint projects and offering more market access to European firms, academic says.

Demonstrators had protested against a rally by anti-immigration and anti-Islam group Hard Line, led by the Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan.

Ukraine’s president accused Russia of wanting to ‘destroy’ the entire eastern region of Donbas, as the last remaining forces in the strategic port of Mariupol prepared for a final defence.

Clashes in Jerusalem that have stoked tensions during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan are putting further strain on Israel’s coalition government.

The 83-year-old, who has served 15 years of a 25-year term, suffered a drop in blood pressure and an irregular heartbeat and was urgently transported to a hospital.

‘As we face threats to our peace and prosperity from autocratic states, it is vital that democracies and friends stick together,’ Johnson said ahead of his first to India as British leader.

Queen Elizabeth, who turns 96 on Thursday, is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee this year, marking 70 years on the throne.

Heavy rains have triggered floods and mudslides that have left thousands homeless, knocked out power and disrupted operations at Durban airport.

The Ever Forward, owned by the Taiwan-based company Evergreen, became lodged in mud in the US east coast’s Chesapeake Bay on March 13.

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The Ukrainian leader said he believed France’s president was shying away from using the term ‘genocide’ because he thinks it would hurt the chances for diplomatic engagement with Russia.

The latest clashes take the number of wounded since Friday to more than 170, at a tense time when the Jewish Passover festival coincides with the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Blaze broke out in Shek Tong Tsui flat at 5.45pm on Sunday.

Border tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have risen since the Taliban seized power last year.

Space engineering chief says two cargo spacecraft will go up annually over the next decade as well.

Former No 2 official also vows to communicate more frequently with lawmakers and maintain a proactive relationship with them if elected.

Running the city has traditionally been a route to the very top of Chinese politics, but that may change at this year’s Communist Party national congress.

The key port city of Mariupol appeared on the brink of falling to Russian forces on Sunday after seven weeks under siege

Markets have grown used to thinking that the worst that can happen is an increase in the cost of money rather than money being taken off the table. The risk of a stock market collapse is real and the next crisis could be in shadow banking.

State media reports offer some examples of the vaguely defined category of state secrets.

He pleaded for an end to the violence in Ukraine, and also exhorted peace and reconciliation for the peoples of Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.

The Kenyan auditor general had warned that port could be seized if the country fell behind in its loan repayments for a railway – a conclusion now disputed by a group of researchers in the US.

Three Philippine presidential candidates have doused speculation they will withdraw from the race to improve VP Leni Robredo’s chances of defeating Bongbong Marcos.

This SCMP Conversations: Education event was held on April 16, 2022 Education experts from Singapore discusses the latest trends on international education in the Lion City

Officials in the northeastern province say they have reached ‘social zero Covid’, with hundreds of new cases – but only among people already in quarantine.

Shehbaz Sharif faces an uphill battle as he seeks to stabilise a shaky economy, mend ties with New Delhi and Beijing – and fend off his predecessor’s claims of US interference in Pakistan’s politics.

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A US study found that about half of patients shed traces of Covid-19 in their waste in the week after infection, and almost 4 per cent patients still emit them seven months later.

Reports that China delivered weapons to the Balkan state were criticised by its neighbours as a threat to their own security.