Researchers are making “good progress” in developing vaccines against Covid-19, with a handful in late-stage trials, but their first use cannot be expected until early 2021, a World Health Organisation (WHO) expert said on Wednesday. WHO is working to ensure fair vaccine distribution, but in the meantime it is key to suppress the virus’s spread, said...
China is scheduled to launch an unmanned probe to Mars on Thursday, aiming to demonstrate its technological prowess as it makes a bid for global leadership in space with its first independent mission to visit another planet. The probe, due to blast off on the Long March 5 Y-4 rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre...
Britain's Prince George, third in line to the throne after his grandfather Prince Charles and father Prince William, was shown flashing a gap-toothed smile in two photos released to mark his seventh birthday. The photos, taken earlier this month by his mother Kate, officially known as the Duchess of Cambridge, were issued by Kensington Palace late...
Social media influencer Sean Buranahiran, accompanied by his lawyer, went to the Pak Kret Police Station on Tuesday (July 21) to acknowledge allegations related to the donations he had collected to deal with forest fires in the North. On June 30, Ronnarong Kaewpetch, leader of the Network of Campaigning for Justice, had filed a police complaint...
After almost a month of taking gradual steps to reopen the economy, Indonesia has seen its Covid-19 cases and deaths double as crowds reemerge in virus epicentres like Jakarta. Experts have cautioned that the country is at risk of becoming one of the worst hit worldwide. Indonesia had recorded 86,521 total cases and 4,143 deaths as of...
Britain will on Monday (July 20) suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in a further escalation of its dispute with China over the introduction of a security law in the former colony, British newspapers reported. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who on Sunday (July 19) accused China of gross human rights violations, will announce the suspension of...
The Covid-19 crisis has affected people in multiple ways. One jobless man was fortunate enough to be uplifted by the generosity of compatriots, although he previously looked for work every day as a struggle for survival. When the story of the hardships of a jobless man from Si Sa Ket province went viral, Thai people poured...
When Liam Mak Wai-hon began a part-time bartending job at a steakhouse in Hong Kong’s Tsuen Wan earlier this year, he did not sense anything amiss at work. Mak, born a female, started his hormone treatment in around August last year to embark on his transition to becoming a man. Boasting a stylish comb-over, and a totem...
A word of advice became the trigger of a brawl in Hougang Ave 5 on Saturday (July 18 ) evening. When a man approached a food delivery rider to tell him to slow down on the footpath, the latter shouted at him, telling him not to malign him because he was not in the wrong. The pair...
The Trump administration is considering banning travel to the United States by all members of the Chinese Communist Party and their families, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday, a move that would worsen already tense US-China relations. Senior officials discussing the matter have begun circulating a draft of a possible presidential order, but...
