TOKYO (AFP) – Japan will evacuate all its nationals from China’s quarantined city of Wuhan, the epicentre of a deadly virus, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday(Jan 26). “We have decided to send back all (Japanese citizens in Wuhan) to Japan if they wish so, by every means including a chartered flight,” Abe told […]
Malaysia’s former premier Najib Razak told a court this week that he did not check whether the sum of US$681 million (S$920 million at today’s exchange rate) that came from a company called Tanore Finance and was found in his bank accounts around 2013 was in fact a donation from the Saudi royal family. He […]
BEIJING (REUTERS, AFP) – China on Sunday (Jan 26) ordered a temporary ban on the trade in wild animals as the country struggles to contain a deadly virus believed to have been spawned in a market that sold wild animals as food. Raising, transporting or selling all wild animal species is forbidden “from the date of […]
BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – China is using AbbVie Inc’s HIV drugs as an ad-hoc treatment for pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus while the global search for a cure continues. The Beijing branch of China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said that a combination of lopinavir and ritonavir, sold under the brand name Kaletra by AbbVie, is […]
MELBOURNE (AFP) – Thousands of people joined Invasion Day protests in cities across Australia on Sunday (Jan 26) to mark the beginning of British colonisation of the vast continent. January 26 is officially recognised as Australia Day, a public holiday to celebrate the origins of the modern nation and is commemorated with fireworks, concerts and […]
BEIJING (AFP) – China announced a partial lockdown in the southern city of Shantou on Sunday (Jan 26) in a bid to control the spread of a deadly virus, the first such measure taken outside the epicentre of the disease. From midnight, non-emergency vehicles will be prohibited from entering the city of 5.6 million people, […]
NEW DELHI (THE STATESMAN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – In the wake of the Supreme Court’s declaration, internet access as a fundamental right has been reiterated. The consumption of adequate amount of information is required to achieve sustainable development worldwide, the United Nations asserts. In 2011, the UN declared access to the internet as a human right. […]
MANILA (PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – That the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree was once more starkly demonstrated last week by the dictator’s son and namesake Ferdinand Marcos Jr. This election also-ran who still can’t get over the fact that he lost the vice presidency (and who continues to be indulged by […]
WUHAN, CHINA (AFP) – The number of confirmed deaths from a viral outbreak in China has risen to 54, with authorities in hard-hit Hubei province on Sunday (Jan 26) reporting 13 more fatalities and 323 new cases. The latest numbers from Hubei, the epicentre of the contagion, would put the nationwide total of confirmed infections at […]
SINGAPORE – There is no need for people who are well to use masks. As for those with respiratory symptoms such as a cough or runny nose, a surgical mask will do and an N95 mask is not necessary, stressed the chief of Singapore’s infectious diseases centre. Professor Leo Yee Sin, executive director of the […]