Japan’s salarymen and women, the corporate troops who built one of the world’s biggest economies, are struggling with tents, earplugs and wandering toddlers in their hardest battle yet — the home …
Asia Today: Fewer sick in S Korea, infections rise in Japan
South Korea on Sunday reported eight more cases of the coronavirus, the first time a daily increase has dropped to a single digit in about two months. The Korea Centers …
Coronavirus: UK launches first Bangladesh rescue flights
Britons in Bangladesh will be able to fly home on four repatriation flights this week – the first arranged from the country amid the coronavirus crisis – the Foreign Office has confirmed. It said the …
UK announces first Bangladesh rescue flights
The Foreign Office says up to 850 Britons in the South Asian country will have the chance to get home.
Global brands must not abandon Bangladesh’s factory workers in the coronavirus crisis
Bangladesh’s ready-made garment manufacturers are struggling to survive. Seven years after the Rana Plaza collapse, garment business owners wonder whether their new, gleaming factories will ever start …
Pakistan to allow Ramadan prayers despite virus threat
https://arab.news/ztxqy ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday said it would conditionally allow congregational prayers, including Taraweeh and Friday prayers, in mosques during the holy month of Ramadan, …
Tennis: India governing body plans domestic circuit for struggling players
India plans to launch a domestic tennis circuit from July to support its players who are struggling financially during the sport’s shutdown due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, the country’s tennis …
Trump warns China over Covid-19 outbreak as Europe approaches 100,000 deaths
President said there should be consequences if Beijing was ‘knowingly responsible’ for pandemic …
Dr. Deborah Birx Calls China’s Low Coronavirus Death Rate ‘Unrealistic’
I put China on there so you could see how basically unrealistic this could be,” Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said about China’s relatively-low mortality rate to …
Coronavirus live news: Trump warns of consequences if China ‘knowingly responsible’ for pandemic
US president says he doesn’t believe China or Iran death tolls; Europe fatalities approach 100,000; Spanish PM seeks lockdown extension. Follow the latest updates …