A worker performs a quality check in the packaging facility of Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech in Beijing, China, September 24, 2020. /Reuters Almost 98 percent of the adult population o
Yet for the first time in her life she admits feeling herself an oppressed and stigmatized minority now that the US government is moving to ditch masks - the single mos
Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | More than 4,000 Indi
03:28 A minimum wage hike seems like good news for any worker around the world, except. Not so, say many workers who depend on the minimum wage, in Venezuela. In early May, the Venezuel
Muslims celebrated Eid al-Fitr in a subdued mood for a second year Thursday as the COVID-19 pandemic again forced mosque closings and family separations on the holiday
Going through a pregnancy in the midst of a pandemic brings its own kind of extreme stress.So the news of a baby being born with COVID-19 antibodies will be a relief to pregnant women in Spain and be
The New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S. /CFP The SP 500 closed lower on Tuesday as rising commodity prices and labor shortages prompted fears that despite reassurances from the U.S.
A gunman attacked a school Tuesday morning in the Russian city of Kazan, sending students running out of the building as smoke poured from its windows. At least nine pe
Flowers laid for the victims of the shooting. /Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP A gunman attacked a school in the Russian city of Kazan, sending students running out of the building as smoke poured fro
Vietnam's health ministry on Friday reported its first death in a patient who received AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine.A 35-year-old female health worker in the southern province of An Giang died on F
GajiGesa, a fintech startup that provides earned wage access (EWA) and other services for workers in Indonesia, has added strategic investors to help it launch new services and expand its user base. I
The first China International Consumer Products Expo kicks off in Haikou, the capital of south China's Hainan Province, May 6, 2021. /CFP Editor's note: Dr. John Gong is a professor at the Uni
A health worker carries out COVID-19 testing at the Joondalup drive-through clinic in Perth, Australia, May 3, 2021. /CFP Editor's note: Daryl Guppy is an international financial technical ana
José Luis Hernández Martínez crossed Mexico City every day on subway Line 12 between his home on the city’s south side and the body shop where he worked repairing mangl
02:33 Strolling down Petaling Street, the main street of Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown in Malaysia, is a somber experience these days. Minus the foreign tourists, the street is nearly desert
A Tunisian healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at El-Menzah sports hall in Tunisia's capital Tunis, May 3, 2021. /CFP Pfizer sharply increased its project
A worker drains a gear box for a three-wheeled electric fun utility vehicle in Oregon, U.S., April 19, 2021. /CFP Restrained by shortages of inputs, manufacturing activity in the U.S. grew at
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