Japanese girl rewrites Chinese song to help fight COVID-19
Ayaka Nakata (C) sing a Japanese version of a Chinese anti-epidemic charity song with her friends on the Tokyo street. (Photo courtesy of Ayaka Nakata) "When the warm spring will…
Traditional Kuwaiti market shifts to digital due to coronavirus outbreak
A grocery store vendor uses his mobile phone to check online orders of customers at the Al-Mubarakiya market in Kuwait City, Kuwait, April 5, 2020. The novel coronavirus pandemic leads…
Virus-hit cruise ship docks in Australia
Carnival Corp's troubled Ruby Princess cruise liner, the biggest single source of coronavirus infections in Australia, docked south of Sydney on Monday to get help for sick crew members requiring urgent medical…
Deadly Pacific storm hits Vanuatu
A deadly Pacific cyclone intensified as it hit Vanuatu on Monday, threatening a natural disaster that experts fear will undermine the impoverished Pacific nation's battle to remain coronavirus-free. Tropical Cyclone…
Disgraced cardinal awaits appeal verdict
Cardinal George Pell will learn whether his appeal against child sex abuse convictions has been successful this week, when Australia's High Court hands down its judgment on Wednesday. The former…
Indians light lamps to heed Modi’s call for coronavirus comradeship
Residents light candles and turn on their mobile phone lights outside their home to observe a nine-minute vigil in a show of solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus in…
Russia ready to coordinate cooperation, stabilize oil markets: Kremlin
Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Namdar Zangeneh (C) attends the 6th Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting in Vienna, Austria, July 2, 2019. Ten non-OPEC…
Japan to declare coronavirus emergency, launch $990 bln stimulus – PM
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, wearing a face mask amid concerns over the spread of COVID-19, attends an upper house committee meeting at the parliament in Tokyo on Wednesday. Photo:…
Chinese experts help Iraq diagnose COVID-19 through medical imageology
Chinese medical team members arrive at Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad, Iraq, on March 7, 2020. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood) By Li Qiao Chinese expert volunteers dispatched by the Red Cross Society…
Medical supplies delivered to the world from China
Workers unload boxes of protective medical equipments and material from a Ukrainian AN-124 cargo plane, arriving from China, on Saturday at Liszt Ferenc Airport in Budapest, Hungary amid the spread of…