SEOUL - South Korea launched its COVID-19 inoculation campaign on Friday, with shots to be administered in some 200 nursing homes, in an effort...

AFTER sitting on the sidelines as the US and Europe plowed headlong into vaccinating against COVID-19, the part of the world that contained the coronavirus most successfully is finally starting to administer shots.

MODERNA, INC. said on Wednesday it is working with US government scientists to study an experimental booster shot that targets a concerning new variant of the coronavirus, and has raised its global COVID-19 vaccine production goal for this year by 100 million doses.

WASHINGTON — US President Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday revoked a proclamation from his predecessor that blocked many green card applicants from entering the United States.

AUSTRALIA’s parliament passed a world-first law to force digital giants such as Facebook, Inc. and Google pay local publishers for news content — a move that may unleash more global regulatory action to limit their power.

WASHINGTON — Jubilee USA Network, Oxfam and 215 other civil society groups on Wednesday urged Group of 20 finance officials to back an issuance of $3 trillion of the IMF’s own currency, or Special Drawing Rights, to help countries weather the COVID-19 pandemic.

SINGAPORE — Facebook on Thursday said it had banned the Myanmar military from using its Facebook and Instagram platforms with immediate effect, as weeks of mass demonstrations continue in the Southeast Asian country after the military seized power.

SINGAPORE — Traveloka, Southeast Asia’s largest online travel startup, plans to launch financial services in Thailand and Vietnam as it eyes a US listing through a blank-check company, its president said.

A new coronavirus variant that shares some similarities with a more transmissible and intractable variant discovered in South Africa is on the rise in New York City, researchers said on Wednesday.

Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) one-dose coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine appeared safe and effective in trials, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said...

JERUSALEM — The first big real-world study of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to be independently reviewed shows the shot is highly effective at preventing coronavirus...

SINGAPORE — Singapore received its first batch of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine made by China’s Sinovac Biotech on Tuesday, its health ministry...