Taiwan on Tuesday said it was "disappointed and angry" with the World Health Organization (WHO) for not inviting Taipei to joining this year's World Health Assembly (WHA.)
A major revamp of Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index is set to pave the way for Chinese tech giants to benefit and expand their trading presence in Asia, while letting more investors gain access to their stocks.
55% of respondents in a recent Nikkei/TV Tokyo poll said they do not have a favorable view of the Japanese government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
Newsom said the reopening is conditioned on California's ability to hold the rate of Covid-19 transmissions steady and no additional stress is added to the hospital system.
Vaccination coverage fell in all age groups except for hepatitis B, which is typically administered in the hospital setting at birth, U.S. health officials said.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 350,100 people across the state as of Monday.
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will present a new Franco-German initiative later on Monday, in a surprise move from Europe's most influential leaders.
A large proportion of companies in the Asia Pacific have been facing issues of unpaid receivables and delayed payments over the last three years, an industry survey found.
As countries globally grapple with the coronavirus outbreak and the resulting economic fallout, Malaysia faces an additional threat — the fragility of its current government.
"Early on in this crisis the CDC, which really had the most trusted brand around the world in this space, really let the country down with the testing," Navarro told NBC.
The number of cases in India surpassed that of China, climbing to a total of 85,940 infections. It is now the 11th worst-hit nation.
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