All of the four personnel onboard were killed Monday after a helicopter plunged into Erhai Lake in Dali City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, local government said o
The European Union signed a new contract with Pfizer-BioNTech to receive 1.8 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Saturday.
China has administered over 300 million COVID-19 vaccine doses as of Friday, said China's National Health Commission (NHC).
At least 10 workers died and several others are feared trapped by debris in a quarry in India's Kadapa district after an explosion occurred Saturday.Local media said the incident happened when the wo
Nepal's tourism authorities have refuted reports of the COVID-19 outbreak at Mount Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest, and other mountain base camps.Nepal's Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civi
Japan's Fukuoka prefecture will cancel its Olympic torch relay, Kyodo News agency reported on Friday.It would be a first for a whole prefecture not to have runners participate in the event, the repor
India witnessed a record rise in COVID-19 cases as well as related deaths in a single day, registering 412,262 new cases and 3,980 casualties, said the country's health ministry on Thursday.
The box office revenue on the Chinese mainland during the May Day holiday reached 1.6 billion yuan (about 247.2 million U.S. dollars) as of 5 p.m. Wednesday, the country's film regulator said.Roma
Last year, Americans had the lowest number of babies in more than four decades, according to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Health
Facebook on Wednesday said it will not allow former U.S. President Donald Trump back onto the platform.
230 million domestic trips were made on the Chinese mainland during the May Day holiday, a year-on-year rise of 119.7 percent, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said
A magnitude-5.5 earthquake hit 154 kilometers north of Ishigaki, Japan, at 0507 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.The epicenter, with a depth of 189.23 kilometers, was initially d
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that it expected to finalize its review of two Chinese vaccines developed by Sinopharm and Sinovac "by the end of this week."
Twenty soldiers have lost their lives as militants attacked a military post in Balablok district of Afghanistan's western Farah province on Monday, Deputy to Provincial Council Khair Mohammad Norzai
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck off the shore of Coquimbo in Chile, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Sunday.The quake was at a depth of 30.7 km, USGS added.There was no immediate repor
China on Wednesday said it is "a positive step" for the U.S. to ease COVID-19 restrictions on Chinese students and other international students traveling to the U.S. this fall.China hopes that the U.
India's death toll due to COVID-19 surpassed the 200,000 mark on Wednesday, said the federal health ministry.
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