31-01-2020 09:58
The United States on Thursday (Jan 30) welcomed the European Union's new rules on fifth-generation internet but pressed them to go further after the bloc resisted Washington's pressure to ban China's Huawei directly.
31-01-2020 09:16
Infection from China's coronavirus spread to more than 8,100 people globally on Thursday (Jan 30), surpassing the total from the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic in a fast-spreading health crisis forecast to deal a heavy blow to the world's second-largest economy.
31-01-2020 09:05
China suspended all football in the country Thursday (Jan 30), hours after the World Indoor Athletics Championships and World Cup skiing were postponed, adding to a long list of sports events hit by the coronavirus outbreak.
31-01-2020 08:53
The World Health Organisation on Thursday (Jan 30) declared a global emergency over the deadly coronavirus spreading from China, after the Asian giant reported its biggest single-day jump in the death toll.
31-01-2020 08:40
Thai authorities arrested two people for posting "fake news" about the coronavirus as a senior official on Thursday (Jan 30) warned Internet users to think twice before sharing incorrect information about the pathogen.
30-01-2020 14:42
Shares plunged on both national stock exchanges on Thursday morning – the first trading session after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday – due to volatility on the global markets given developments of the virus outbreak in China.
30-01-2020 10:19
As scientists race to find a vaccine for the deadly Wuhan virus, the Indian government said on Wednesday (Jan 29) that ancient homeopathy and Ayurveda remedies could hold an answer.
30-01-2020 09:43
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on January 29 asked tourism sectors of localities nationwide to pay special heed to well controlling and keeping close watch on the acute respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus originated from Wuhan, China (2019-nCoV).
30-01-2020 08:49
Sweden's IKEA, the world's biggest furniture retailer, said it was temporarily closing around half of its 30 stores in China as deaths in the country from the fast-spreading new coronavirus rose to 132 on Wednesday (Jan 29).
30-01-2020 08:44
A virus similar to the SARS pathogen has claimed more than 130 lives since emerging in a market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, and spread around the world.
30-01-2020 08:36
Japanese citizens evacuated from Wuhan, the epicentre of a deadly virus outbreak, described an atmosphere of confusion and fear in the Chinese city and expressed relief as they arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday (Jan 29).
28-01-2020 22:04
The 17 Vietnamese students and their relatives in Wuhan city, the Chinese province of Hubei, where an acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (nCoV) is raging, are currently in stable health and psychological condition, the Vietnamese Embassy in China said on January 26.
28-01-2020 21:42
Japanese authorities said Tuesday (Jan 28) a man with no recent travel to China has contracted the novel strain of coronavirus - apparently after driving tourists visiting from Wuhan, where a deadly outbreak began.
28-01-2020 21:37
China said on Tuesday (Jan 28) that 106 people had died from a new coronavirus that is spreading across the country, up from the previous toll of 81.
28-01-2020 21:33
China's capital on Monday (Jan 27) recorded its first death from a deadly coronavirus as it struggles to contain a rapidly spreading disease that has sparked global alarm, with countries scrambling to evacuate their citizens from the epicentre of the epidemic.