Gabrielle Reyes

Two municipal health workers in southeast China's Shangrao city recently filmed beating a woman's pet corgi to death with a crowbar while she was away from her home undergoing a mandatory coronavirus quarantine have been "criticized and educated" by local authorities, China's state-run Global

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A municipal health worker in southeastern China's Shangrao city beat a woman's pet dog to death with a crowbar on Friday while the woman was undergoing a state-run coronavirus quarantine outside her residence, Taiwan News reported Monday, citing security camera footage from inside the woman's

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday filed his candidacy for a Philippine Senate seat in a May 2022 general election, two days after his daughter, Sara Duterte, filed her candidacy for the Philippines' vice presidency in the same election.

China's latest coronavirus epidemic has forced the country to transition from a "zero infection" strategy to a "zero case policy," which encourages state officials to "prevent viral transmission in communities and to find out and treat patients as soon as possible," China's National Health

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Amnesty International accusedPfizer, a U.S.-based multinational pharmaceutical giant, on Thursday of using "misleading language" to suggest it has supplied poor countries with greater supplies of coronavirus vaccines than it actually has.

Indian Gen. Bipin Rawat, the chief of India's defense staff, told reporters on Friday that although China has recently built villages along its unmarked Himalayan boundary with India, the outposts are "well within" the Chinese side of the border, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

Northeast China's Dalian city documented 52 new coronavirus cases on Thursday — more than double the number of such infections detected a day earlier — prompting the coastal tourist hub and major port to "limit outbound travel, cut offline school classes, and close a few cultural venues,"

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A resident of southwestern China's Chengdu city claimed on social media this month local health workers killed her pet cats after she was forced to enter a state-run coronavirus quarantine facility, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported Friday.

Tickets for international flights out of Kabul's main airport are prohibitively expensive, meaning most people in Afghanistan are unable to fly abroad, Tolo News reported Thursday.

A Hong Kong District Court sentenced a man who dressed up as the comic book character "Captain America" to protest China's encroachment on the city's limited freedoms last year to nearly six years in prison on Thursday for violating Hong Kong's national security law.

Organizers of the 2021 Shanghai Marathon — originally scheduled for November 28 — have postponed the race indefinitely.

A doctor in British Columbia, Canada, recently diagnosed a woman as suffering from "climate change" after she developed breathing difficulties amid a summer heatwave in the western province, Euronews reported Wednesday.

Singapore's government — which currently provides free medical care tocoronavirus patients — announced Monday it will no longer cover the costs of coronavirus-related medical bills for people who choose not to receive a Chinese coronavirus vaccine starting next month, Australia's Seven News

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School closures across Japan in spring 2020 did not prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus, according to a new study published by the medical journal Nature Medicine, the U.K.

Government authorities in China's northeastern Russian border city of Heihe declared a "people's war" against the community's latest coronavirus epidemic on Sunday, offering rewards of 100,000 yuan ($15,640) to people who "provide clues" to local officials that help them trace the outbreak's

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About 2,000 people marched through Wellington to the New Zealand parliament on Tuesday to protest the country's recent coronavirus vaccine mandate and strict lockdowns.

China's state power grid said Sunday it will be unable to ensure steady supplies of electricity to all of the Chinese regions it services in the coming months, warning that some provinces will face continued power outages "through winter until spring.

Police in India's northeastern Tripura state have launched criminal cases against 102 Twitter account holders for allegedly "spreading fake and distorted information" that police say incited mob attacks on local buildings affiliated with Muslim residents in October, Asian News International

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Philippine senator and retired boxing legend Manny Pacquiao vowed Thursday to ensure that China does not "abuse" or "bully" the Philippines if he is elected president of the country next year, the Philippine Star reported Friday.

World food prices spiked to a ten-year high in October led by "firmer price quotations" for cereals and vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (U.N.