Director of Wuhan Laboratory Dismisses Claims COVID-19 Originated There In line with Chinese government and Communist Party officials, the director of Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory has aggressively dismissed claims… 04/19/2020 Aimeast
Research Finds Traces Of COVID-19 In Raw Sewage Australian researchers are developing a new sewage test that could help identify coronavirus hot spots.They believe the sewage test could… 04/19/2020 Aimeast
Experts: Pyongyang’s Anti-Virus Measures Put Stability Over Public Health Experts fear North Korea could be using its tough anti-virus measures to gain tighter centralized control over its people by… 04/18/2020 Aimeast
Myanmar Clashes Take Heavy Toll on Ethnic Groups in Rakhine, Chin States The U.N. human rights office is calling for an end to escalating clashes between Myanmar’s army and the ethnic armed… 04/18/2020 Aimeast
Hong Kong Police Arrest 15 Veteran Pro-Democracy Figures Hong Kong police Saturday arrested 15 prominent democracy activists on charges of illegal assembly in the biggest crackdown on the… 04/18/2020 Aimeast
Save Afghan Sikhs and Hindus From Genocide, Activists Urge Four-year-old Tanya Kaur woke up her father, Harinder Singh, to tell him she wanted to wear some new clothes to… 04/18/2020 Aimeast
Hong Kong Police Arrest 14 Veteran Pro-Democracy Figures Hong Kong police Saturday arrested 14 prominent democracy activists on charges of illegal assembly in the biggest crackdown on the… 04/18/2020 Aimeast
China Top Office in Hong Kong Declares Itself Not Bound by Basic Law China’s top representative office in Hong Kong said Friday it is entitled to get involved in Hong Kong affairs and… 04/18/2020 Aimeast
Indian Sailors Test Positive For COVID India’s navy said Saturday that at least 21 of its sailors at a key base have tested positive for COVID-19.The… 04/18/2020 Aimeast
US Pledges New Financial Aid to Help Pakistan Fight Virus The United States announced Friday several new programs worth more than $8 million to assist Pakistan in stemming the spread… 04/18/2020 Aimeast
Spread of Coronavirus in India Has Ignited Intolerance Toward Minority Muslims As the coronavirus outbreak spreads around the world and countries take various measures to contain it, the pandemic in India… 04/18/2020 Aimeast
Pakistan Criticizes Proposed Sale of US Missile Systems to India Pakistan said Friday that a proposed new multimillion-dollar sale of American missile systems to Islamabad’s archrival, India, would destabilize an already “volatile” situation in South Asia. The U.S. Department of State… 04/17/2020 Aimeast
Asian Media Battles Officials to Report on Coronavirus Media outlets covering the coronavirus pandemic in Asia are having to circumvent authorities to report about the disease—including the threat… 04/17/2020 Aimeast
Japan Supports WHO During COVID-19 Pandemic Japanese President Shinzo Abe said Friday he absolutely would not think of reducing funding for the World Health Organization (WHO)… 04/17/2020 Aimeast
In Virus Battle, China’s Economy in Worst Downturn Since ’60s China faces a drawn-out struggle to revive an economy that suffered its biggest contraction since possibly the mid-1960s after millions… 04/17/2020 Aimeast
RFE/RL Chief Welcomes Kazakh Court Ruling Over Police Inaction in Attack on Its Reporters Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has welcomed a Kazakh court ruling that an investigation should continue into the failure of police… 04/17/2020 Aimeast
Asian Media Battle Authorities to Report on Coronavirus Media outlets covering the coronavirus pandemic in Asia are having to circumvent authorities to report about the disease—including the threat… 04/17/2020 Aimeast
45-Minute COVID-19 Tests Aid Remote Australian Aboriginal Communities Australia will start rapid coronavirus testing for more than 80 remote indigenous settlements. The 45-minute test will help authorities to… 04/17/2020 Aimeast
Wuhan Raises Number of COVID-19 Deaths, Cases Health officials in Wuhan, China’s COVID-19 epicenter, revised the death toll from the virus by more than 50 percent Friday.An… 04/17/2020 Aimeast
China’s Virus-Hit Economy Set To Post First Decline Since at Least 1992 China’s coronavirus crisis is expected to have tipped its economy into its first decline since at least 1992, data is… 04/17/2020 Aimeast