A Birmingham pilot has told how he is trapped in Pakistan with his family during the coronavirus pandemic – despite offering to flay other stranded Brits home. Taariq Iqbal is with six other relatives …
Pakistan’s Swat River fouled by untreated waste, dumping
The Swat River is a vital supply of water for Pakistan’s northern region of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. But local authorities, residents and tourists have been dumping raw sewage and trash into its waters …
Indonesia reports highest number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia
Indonesia reported on Friday 407 new cases, taking the total number of cases to 5,923 and surpassing the Philippines as the country with the highest number of infections in Southeast Asia. Health …
Pakistan Struggles to Fight COVID-19
Pakistani government employees crowd together waiting to receive their salaries ignoring social distancing recommendations to help avoid the spread of coronavirus, outside a bank in Peshawar …
China’s economy shrinks almost 7%; Wuhan revises up deaths
China’s economy shrank by 6.8 percent in the first three months of the year, its first quarterly contraction on record, the National Bureau of Statistics of China reported on Friday.
China Says Sudden Jump in Wuhan Coronavirus Death Toll Is Due to Statistical Verification, Not Cover Up
Wuhan city—where the COVID-19 coronavirus originated before spreading across the world to become a pandemic—revised its death toll up 50 percent on Friday, according to the state-run CCTV news channel …
China Raises Wuhan Death Toll by 50 Percent: Live Updates
Germany’s national health institute says the country’s average rate of new coronavirus infections had dropped significantly. Israel begins mapping out a controlled lifting of restrictions.
China Records First Ever Contraction in Quarterly GDP on Coronavirus
China’s economy shrank 6.8% in the first three months of 2020 compared with a year earlier, the first such contraction since Beijing began reporting quarterly gross domestic product in 1992.
Crucial coronavirus antibody tests destined for New York City caught in red tape in China
The first 100,000ntibody tests authorized by the Food and Drug Administration and headed to New York City could have been deployed days ago, but they’ve been stuck in red-tape limbo in China, …
Waste not, want not: Hong Kong cafe zeros in on reducing trash
A zero food waste cafe in Hong Kong is trying to tackle the financial hub’s escalating trash problem by providing meals that are fully compostable, such as vegetables and herb flatbreads, and …