Malaysia offers free COVID-19 vaccinations to foreign residents, undocumented migrants
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia will extend its free coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program to all foreigners residing in the country, including students, refugees and undocumented migrants, the government said on Thursday.
Dollar struggles for traction after soft U.S. inflation
SINGAPORE - The dollar was pinned near two-week lows on Thursday, as softer-than-expected U.S. inflation and another Federal Reserve promise to keep interest rates...
Taiwan, U.S. hold first Washington meeting under new administration
TAIPEI - Taiwan and the United States have held their first publicly acknowledged formal meeting in Washington under the new Biden administration, with the...
Singapore Airlines begins flights with fully vaccinated crew
SINGAPORE - Singapore Airlines (SIA) began operating flights on Thursday with full sets of crew members vaccinated against COVID-19 as the city-state seeks to...
Suu Kyi aide among new wave of arrests in Myanmar as Biden approves sanctions
A close aide to ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was detained in a new wave of arrests following last week's military coup,...
South Korea unemployment at 21-year high as a million jobs lost
SOUTH KOREA’S jobless rate surged to its highest in more than two decades, raising concern that an export-driven recovery could be masking a harsher scarring of the economy.
J&J CEO says annual COVID-19 vaccine shots may be needed
JOHNSON & JOHNSON ((J&J) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Alex Gorsky told CNBC on Tuesday that people may need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 annually over the next several years, like seasonal flu shots.
COVID may have taken ‘convoluted path’ to Wuhan, WHO team leader says
WUHAN — The head of a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) said bats remain a likely source and that transmission of the virus via frozen food is a possibility that warrants further investigation, but he ruled out a lab leak.
Bolder climate action could save millions of lives each year by 2040
TORONTO — Countries could save millions of lives annually by 2040 if they commit to bolder plans to cut planet-heating emissions and curb global warming in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change, researchers said Tuesday.
Eli Lilly’s antibody combination receives FDA emergency use authorization for COVID-19
Eli Lilly’s combination antibody therapy to fight COVID-19 has been granted emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Lilly said on Tuesday.
Senators vote to proceed with Trump’s impeachment trial, but conviction may prove elusive
WASHINGTON — A divided US Senate voted largely along party lines on Tuesday to move ahead with Donald J. Trump’s impeachment trial on a charge of inciting the deadly assault on the Capitol, but conviction appears unlikely barring a major shift among Republicans.
‘I’m not a cat,’ says lawyer after Zoom filter mishap
When Judge Roy Ferguson opened up virtual proceedings of the 394th Judicial District Court in Texas on Zoom on Tuesday, he was not expecting...