Philippine Health Workers Battle Coronavirus, Harassment When Philippine health workers end their daily hospital shifts, they trade the risks of COVID-19 for the risks that they… 04/07/2020 Aimeast
New Zealand PM Declares Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, ‘Essential Workers’ New Zealand’s Prime Minister has announced the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny are “essential workers,” allowing them to do… 04/07/2020 Aimeast
Pakistan Police, on Front Lines of COVID-19 Fight, Lack Gear Police are on the front lines of fighting the spread of the coronavirus in Pakistan. The government has imposed a… 04/07/2020 Aimeast
Taiwan Tells Agencies Not to Use Zoom on Security Grounds Taiwan's cabinet has told government agencies to stop using Zoom Video Communications Inc's conferencing app, the latest blow to the… 04/07/2020 Aimeast
How to Hold an Election in a Pandemic, South Korean Style South Korea has been widely praised as a global model for how to contain the coronavirus. Now, it is trying… 04/07/2020 Aimeast
Australian Court Dismisses Cardinal’s Sex Abuse Convictions Australia's highest court has dismissed the convictions of the most senior Catholic found guilty of child sex abuse. High Court Chief… 04/07/2020 Aimeast
Wuhan Residents Mourn and Breathe Sigh of Relief as Lockdown Ends Residents in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the original epicenter of the coronavirus, are breathing a sigh of relief as… 04/06/2020 Aimeast
China Claims Zero Infections in Its Military While militaries around the world are seeing their soldiers fall victim to the coronavirus, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), the… 04/06/2020 Aimeast
Officials Hopeful Australia Is Flattening COVID-19 Curve Health officials say there is more evidence that Australia's efforts to contain the COVID-19 outbreak are working. While they are… 04/06/2020 Aimeast
Rural-to-Urban Transition May Explain Viral Outbreaks: Vietnam Study Vietnam has a possible lesson for the world as the global community copes with the COVID-19 emergency — monitor the places… 04/06/2020 Aimeast
COVID-19 Diaries: Playing Real Life Pac-Man in Pakistan Things are moving from surreal to downright fiction-y. Yes, I invented that word. Only because I feel like I am… 04/06/2020 Aimeast
Growing Calls for China to Release Rights Lawyer from Compulsory Quarantine One day after his release from prison, Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang told friends that he is being watched by… 04/06/2020 Aimeast
Japanese Prime Minister Declares One-Month State of Emergency for Tokyo, 6 Other Prefectures Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he will declare a 30-day state of emergency in parts of the country in… 04/06/2020 Aimeast
Coronavirus Forces Afghans to Leave Iran An Associated Press report says at least 200,000 Afghans living in Iran have been returning home in recent weeks because… 04/06/2020 Aimeast
Why China is Developing Military Vessels at the Center of its Coronavirus Outbreak As China continues to recover from COVID-19, the city where the now global disease began is stepping up ship production for military and… 04/06/2020 Aimeast
UN Chief: Coronavirus Pressures Leading to Global Surge in Domestic Violence The U.N. secretary-general warned Sunday that the increase in social and economic pressures brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has led… 04/06/2020 Aimeast
US Links International Aid to Fixing Afghan Political Dispute The United States has linked international aid for Afghanistan to the settlement of a protracted political crisis, which has seen… 04/05/2020 Aimeast
China Bars Human Rights Lawyer From Seeing Wife Upon Jail Release Amid Coronavirus Pandemic A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who had been jailed for 4 ½ years for subversion was released Sunday, but… 04/05/2020 Aimeast
Australia to Start COVID-19 Vaccine Animal Tests Government researchers in Australia have started animal tests of two potential COVID-19 vaccines. However, experts caution that even if they… 04/05/2020 Aimeast
Banning Consumption of Wildlife in Asia Difficult, Despite COVID Pandemic Scientists say COVID-19 likely originated through "animal to human" transmission at a wild animal market in Wuhan, China. New studies… 04/05/2020 Aimeast