Tag: Asia

The Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations has made a new $15 billion offer to Vietnam to agree during a ...

Asian shares spiked higher on Friday, while the dollar nursed steep losses after a smaller-than-expected increase in US consumer prices ...

US President Joe Biden has invited Africa's leaders to the White House for a summit set to be held in ...

The pandemic added 4.7 million more people to Southeast Asia's most extreme poor in 2021, reversing gains made in fighting ...

The rand is closing in on R15 to the dollar in midday Asian trading, after having started the year at ...

The World Health Organisation said it is looking into allegations a regional director in Asia bullied staff, used racist language ...

Asia-Pacific countries should boost their healthcare capacity and fully vaccinate their people to prepare for a surge in COVID-19 cases ...

Some of the world's biggest crude oil buyers said on Thursday they are looking at tapping strategic oil reserves after ...

The highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus is surging through Asia this week, with record numbers of infections in ...

Southeast Asian countries will discuss the crisis in Myanmar at a summit in Jakarta on Saturday, the ASEAN bloc's secretariat ...

Australia began its mass COVID-19 vaccine programme, while the United States approached a staggering half-million deaths despite a recent decline ...

As the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, resources are being sucked away from the fight against a host of debilitating ...

Three mutant COVID-19 variants that emerged in Britain, South Africa, and Brazil pose a high-risk in Europe, Europe's disease surveillance ...

China defended its early actions taken to fight the COVID-19 outbreak, saying it immediately notified the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Several countries welcomed 2021 amid stringent coronavirus restrictions as the world looked to move on from a tumultuous 2020 that ...

Several countries looked to approve coronavirus vaccines developed by AstraZeneca-Oxford and Sinopharm, amid the spread of the virus variant, while ...

Countries braced for higher infections ahead of the New Year long weekend, with Australia tightening curbs on gatherings in Sydney, ...

More countries detected the mutated variant of the coronavirus, with India reporting its first few cases, while the U.S. House ...

A new variant of the coronavirus first seen in Britain was detected in several nations, amplifying worries about its rapid ...

In this week's Global COVID-19 Wrap, SABC News captures highlights from all corners of the globe, as the number of ...