Infectious disease expert Joseph Tsang suggests requiring people to provide negative test results for entry into regulated premises to minimise risk of infection.

China’s regulators have restricted minors from the country’s booming live-streaming industry, citing the need to protect ‘their physical and mental health’, in the latest crackdown on internet platform operators.

Government report finds coastal waters swollen by rising water temperatures and melting glaciers and polar ice caps.

It is not known if Beijing is invited to the event the White House says will be a forum to discuss efforts to end the pandemic and prepare for future health threats.

Buildings in Taipei shook briefly on Monday but the weather bureau says the tremors were felt across the island.

Russia is marking its 1945 victory over Nazi Germany with a show of military might in Moscow.

Suspect allegedly tried to sell two tickets to Canto-pop band’s concert at Hong Kong Coliseum for HK$10,000.

Chaoyang and Shunyi parklands off-limits until further notice as residents’ complaints mount in the Omicron-hit capital.

The comment set off a flood of sarcasm and anger on Monday, though much of it was aimed at a Japanese government many said did little to address the falling birth rate.

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The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has interviewed nearly 1,000 people. But the nine-member panel has yet to talk to the two most prominent players in that day’s events.

Lee expresses gratitude to Lam for brief session a day after he clinched the top job, pointing out his team is working on a tight schedule to July 1.

New symptomatic Covid-19 cases bounced back in Shanghai, prompting local authorities to double down on curbs to prevent a resurgence of the outbreak.

China’s exports grew by 3.9 per cent in April compared with a year earlier, down from 14.7 per cent growth in March, while imports remained flat, trade data released on Monday showed.

The deadly shooting happened shortly after voting got under way on Mindanao island. It came after five grenades exploded outside a polling station on the island late on Sunday.

Rodrigo Chaves, elected despite a cloud of sexual harassment allegations, took the oath of office with promises to revive the economy and end the abuse of women in his country.

The country has signed deals with eight countries totally US$3.5 billion over the past 20 years to buy equipment and build bases.

Former tiger killer now helps to convince other hunters to retrain, but Indonesia’s fight to protect wildlife remains a struggle as demand for skin and other animal parts persists.

South Korea is the world’s largest consumer of tungsten per capita and relies on China for 95 per cent of its imports. The metal is used in everything from phones and chips to electric vehicles and missiles.

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Many factories in the southern tech hub have prepared to operate a ‘closed-loop’ system, illustrating how the Chinese government has kept up certain economic activity amid tight restrictions.

Evacuees, some with young children, left buses that had transported them to a shopping centre car park in Zaporizhzhia, a city in southern Ukraine.

Pro-Beijing parties offer names, some of Lee’s campaign team members tipped for cabinet posts.

Seoul hopes the centre can help it learn more about cyberattacks and ways to fend them off.

The incoming chief executive has shown ambition in pledging to tackle Hong Kong’s lingering issues. His administration should also take a fresh look at the city’s birth rate as an indicator of social ills that need fixing.

The outgoing vice-president on Monday raised concerns over reports of election-linked violence and malfunctioning vote-counting machines as millions of Filipino headed to the polls.

Frontman Bono and guitarist The Edge played some of the band’s biggest hits as well as other classics such as ‘Stand By Me’, – adapted to ‘stand by Ukraine’.

‘Berlin made a mistake by prohibiting Ukrainian symbols,’ Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted. ‘It’s deeply false to treat them equally with Russian symbols.’

The unrest came hours after the arrest of two Palestinians suspected of axing three Israelis to death, and as a series of anti-Israeli attacks and bloody violence has left dozens dead since late March.

Long before campaigning began for May’s federal election, Canberra talked of national security threats from Beijing, like cyberattacks or even war; racism has also reared its head.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in his remarks in Cuba’s capital Havana, also said he would keep pushing for the US to lift its decades-old embargo against Cuba.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was responsible for ‘war crimes’, during a visit to Ukraine where he met with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The 29-year-old Scot, who was born in Rwanda, said he had been keeping the news secret since he was cast in February. Gatwa will play the 14th incarnation of the Time Lord.

The G7 club of wealthy nations issued a scathing statement accusing President Vladimir Putin of bringing ‘shame’ on Russia with his invasion of Ukraine.

More than two dozen staff will support Lee as he starts selecting ministers, prepares policy plan

Statement from the EU said chief executive poll was ‘yet another step in the dismantling of the “one country, two systems” principle’.

The deadly attack in Elad, populated by mainly ultra-Orthodox Jews, was the sixth in which Israelis have been targeted since March 22.

With only 54 days to go before he is sworn in, Lee says forming his cabinet will be a top priority.

The China-Solomons deal has not been publicly released but a leaked draft alarmed countries in the region, particularly sections that would allow Chinese naval deployments to the Solomons.

As diners shunned the indoors for outdoor dining, so did the city’s rats. Now city data suggests that sightings are more frequent than they’ve been in a decade.

Chaoyang district is at the centre of the capital’s outbreak and has already ordered businesses to close and residents to work from home.

War analysts believe infernos in Bryansk, which hit facilities sending oil to Europe, were deliberate and tied to the war.

In a 5,000-word article, the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office lauds election for its orderliness and commends Lee as a good leader for city.

Sole candidate secures 1,416 votes, or 99.4 per cent of all ballots cast, a record for a chief executive election in Hong Kong.

Premier Li Keqiang says China’s employment outlook is complicated and grim and local authorities need to focus on job stability.

Dozens of people carried hand-written placards and chanted slogans demanding that ‘thieves’ be banned from the sacred city, 200km north of Colombo.

Former schoolmates at Wah Yan College, Kowloon recall the boy who aced exams but kept a low profile.

The office was set up this year and will be officially opened next month when party chairman Eric Chu visits America.

A growing number of fake charities are placing ‘donation bins’ across China and tricking unsuspecting donors into giving them used clothes that are then sold for ‘easy golden’ profits.