BEIJING (AP) : China on Saturday finished building a 1,500-room hospital for COVID-19 patients to fight a surge in infections … More
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Haute cuisine: Thai hospital rolls out cannabis-laced menu
PRACHINBURI (Thailand) : From spicy “happy” salads to soups sprinkled with cannabis shoots and deep-fried marijuana leaves — a Thai … More
Cambodia thanks ‘friend’ China for 1 mil Sinovac shots
Hun Sen says doses will vaccinate 500,000 people, starting with frontliners, his bodyguards, officials around king PHNOM PENH : China will … More
Government to form Emergency Management Technical Committee, says PM
KUALA LUMPUR : The government has agreed to form the Emergency Management Technical Committee to ensure that matters related to … More
Asia Today: China’s COVID-19 hospitalizations, cases rise
BEIJING (AP) : China says it is now treating more than 1,000 people for COVID-19 as numbers of cases continue … More
WHO team arrives in Wuhan to investigate pandemic origins
WUHAN, China (AP) : A global team of researchers arrived Thursday in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was … More
Police seek clues on ‘k-powdered milk’ makers
Police are at their wit’s end trying to find the producers of “k-powdered milk”, a new drug cocktail which is … More
President Jokowi gets Sinovac jab to officially launch Indonesia’s COVID-19 vaccination programme
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo received the first dose of Sinovac Biotech’s CoronaVac on Wednesday (Jan 13), becoming the first person … More
The Broken windows theory
EVEN before Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s announcement of the new measures that the government would take to curb … More
Khairy: Vaccine plan delayed by absence of trials
DELAYS in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in Malaysia have been attributed to the absence of clinical trials at home, … More
Cannabis: Amsterdam mulls ban on foreign tourists at its ‘coffee shops’
Amsterdam is to discuss banning foreign tourists from entering coffee shops to legally buy marijuana. The move has been proposed … More
‘Powdered milk’ drug cocktail kills six
The national police chief has pledged to crack down on a “new” type of drug better known as “powdered milk … More
Agong assents to emergency until August 1, or until Covid-19 comes under control
BREAKING NEWS | Sultan Abdullah decided this after an audience with Muhyiddin. In view of the growing number of Covid-19 … More
Distress, exasperation as MCO returns minus safety nets, clear SOPs
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 12 : Malaysians reacted with frustration to the government’s announcement of a renewed lockdown to contain Covid-19 … More
The Latest: England invites over 80s to get virus vaccine
LONDON : Thousands of people 80 and older have started receiving invitations to get the coronavirus vaccine in England, officials … More
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine granted conditional registration for use in Malaysia — Khairy
KUALA LUMPUR : The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 has received conditional registration from the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA), according to Science, … More
Japan PM Suga declares COVID-19 state of emergency in Tokyo area
TOKYO : Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency for Tokyo and three adjacent prefectures on Thursday (Jan 7) … More
Health Ministry projects 8,000 daily Covid-19 cases in March if R-nought is 1.2
KUALA LUMPUR : The Health Ministry today warned that daily Covid-19 cases could hit 8,000 by mid-March if the basic … More
UK first in world to start using Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
LONDON (AP) : The U.K. on Monday became the first nation in the world to start using the COVID-19 vaccine … More
The Latest: France criticized for slow vaccine rollout
PARIS : France’s cautious approach to its virus vaccine rollout appears to have backfired, leaving just a few hundred people … More
Covid: How the war on the virus attacked freedom in Asia
Safoora Zargar was more than three months pregnant when she was arrested in the Indian capital Delhi for participating in … More
Some COVID-19 survivors haunted by loss of smell and taste
As the coronavirus claims more victims, a once-rare diagnosis is receiving new attention from scientists, who fear it may affect … More
Indonesia starts nationwide Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine distribution
JAKARTA : Nationwide distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine that was developed by Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech started on Sunday (Jan … More
Coronavirus: Israel leads vaccine race with 12% given jab
Israel has given vaccinations against coronavirus to more than one million people, the highest rate in the world, as global … More
