COVID-19 infections in Japan rise to 804
A pedestrian wearing a face mask passes by the office building of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 25, 2020. (Xinhua/Du Xiaoyi) Japan's health ministry…
Aussie supermarkets offer priority shopping to elderly, vulnerable customers
Residents do shopping in the supermarket Costco in Canberra, Australia, March 4, 2020. With a jump in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Australia, many residents have been…
Death toll at 5 as Australia battles COVID-19 outbreak with enhanced measures
A woman wearing mask walks in a shopping mall in Sydney, Australia, on March 2, 2020. Australia's first person-to-person transmissions of COVID-19 were confirmed in the State of New South…
Suspected neo-Nazi charged with terrorism near Sydney: police
The mother of a 27-year-old Pakistani man stabbed to death reacts as she leaves an Athens court where two suspected members of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn accused of…
Australian grocers start ‘elderly hour’
Health Minister of the State of New South Wales (NSW) Brad Hazzard attends a press conference in Sydney, Australia, on March 2. Photo: Xinhua An Australian supermarket chain will start…
Ex-employee gets death for murdering 19 at Japanese care home
Takashi Ono, father of one of the victims who was injured when patients at a care home were attacked in 2016, speaks during a press conference in Yokohama on Monday,…
Maldives COVID-19 cases rise to 13, allocates $13 bln for emergency measures
The number of COVID-19 cases in Maldives rose to 13 on Monday after three more people tested positive to the virus, according to Maldives' Health Protection Authority (HPA). Two…
Western states’ ‘surrender’ to COVID-19 shocks Chinese
People wear protective face masks as they walk down Whitehall in the Spring sunshine on Wednesday in central London. The Bank of England slashed its interest rate to a record…
China to take actions to help Spain fight COVID-19 epidemic: Chinese FM
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Photo: Xinhua Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday that China will take a series of actions to…
China willing to do its utmost to help the Philippines: Chinese FM
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) meets with Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin in Vientiane, Laos, Feb. 19, 2020. (Photo by Kaikeo Saiyasane/Xinhua) Chinese State Councilor and…