HONG KONG -- Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government Paul Chan on Friday updated business leaders from Britain on Hong Kong's leading position as a glo

JAKARTA, April 30 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia increased by 5,500 in the past 24 hours to 1,668,368, with the death toll from the epidemic adding by 187 to 45,521, the Indonesian Hea

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SUVA -- Fiji announced on Friday night a curfew in the Suva-Nausori area after the island nation reported one new COVID-19 case, the seventh straight day of registering new COVID-19 cases. A

JAKARTA, April 30 (Xinhua) -- New batches of COVID-19 vaccines produced by Chinese pharmaceutical companies arrived at Indonesia's Soekarno-Hatta Airport on Friday, an Indonesian official said.

Asian markets turned lower Friday as investors struggled to take the lead from a record performance on Wall Street.Hong Kong led the losses with tech firms

A former cinema in Liverpool that gave John Lennon many happy hours has been saved from demolition thanks to a campaign by locals.

JAKARTA -- Indonesia's food and drug authority BPOM has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm, an official source

For most of the last year, the Pacific Islands have been remarkably isolated from the devastating effects of the COVID crisis. By walling themselves off early from the outside world, most Pacific n

JAKARTA, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's food and drug authority BPOM has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm,

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 30 (ANI): Tata Motors Ltd (TML) has appointed Martin Uhlarik as its new Global Design Head. He was till recently Head of Design for Tata Motors European Technical C

Kochi (Kerala) [India], April 30 (ANI): The Indian Navy extended its facilities at Naval Air Station, INS Garuda for the air evacuation of a 75-year-old COVID patient from the island of Kalpeni in Lak

PARIS -- Global electric car sales are set for further strong growth after 41 percent rise in 2020, according to a report released on Thursday by the International Energy Agency. "Despite th

JAKARTA, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian police's Densus 88 counterterrorism squad have arrested 52 suspected terrorists linked to a suicide bombing in Makassar cathedral church in South Sulawe

JAKARTA, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 5,833 within one day to 1,662,868, with the death toll adding by 218 to 45,334, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. Ac

Asian and European markets rallied Thursday as traders welcomed blockbuster earnings from Wall Street titans.Traders were also keeping an eye on Joe Biden'

Asian and European markets mostly rose Wednesday as investors awaited the end of the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting.There was no