WHO experts give nod to China jabs, boosting global vaccine drive
China has already approved four homegrown vaccines
China has already approved four homegrown vaccines
Along with Fijian Drua, Moana Pasifika has been granted a conditional license to join a planned Super Rugby competition with New Zealand and Australian teams in 2022. While Fijian Drua will be based in Fiji, Moana Pasifika will be mainly based in New Zealand due to cost concerns, although comprised mainly of Tongan and Samoan players.
Traders had a muted reaction to news in the UK that unemployment had unexpectedly fallen to 4.9%.
It’s been a long time between test wins for Sri Lanka, a record coach Mickey Arthur has ensured the players are acutely aware of. Sri Lanka will start a two-match series against Bangladesh on Wednesday, aiming for its first test win since January 2020. The run since then has included two losses in South Africa, two losses at home to England and two draws in the Caribbean against the West Indies.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 20 — The Health Ministry has today reported 2,341 new Covid-19 infections, with the majority of cases detected in Sarawak. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham...
A freelance tuition teacher who sought teenage boys online for sexual activities was given eight years of corrective training and six strokes of the cane on Tuesday (20 April).
PETALING JAYA, April 20 — A Singaporean police duo is getting praise online for rescuing a monitor lizard from becoming potential roadkill on a busy highway. A group from the educational Facebook...
A man who passed himself off as a social escort agent to have sex with potential sugar babies and shoot nude photos of them was jailed three-and-a-half years on Tuesday (20 April).
KUALA LUMPUR, April 20 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has branded the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration a dictatorship that is ruled by decree, adding on to past criticism against its decision to...
Indians have shown this trust despite the fact that government apps, websites, and databases in India have witnessed security flaws time and again.
Although it is commonly assumed that an employer must give a reference and writing a 'bad' one is illegal, this is not technically the case.
As lockdown eases, what are your thoughts on trying to return to normal?
Honest Glaswegians admit they are not doing enough to be green.
Japan's third most populated region will on Tuesday ask the central government to impose a state of emergency over the coronavirus as infections rise just three months before the country hosts the Olympics.
The world's chemical weapons watchdog will decide this week whether to impose unprecedented sanctions on Syria for its alleged use of toxic arms and failure to declare its arsenal.
A British parliamentary committee will summon finance minister Rishi Sunak and former Prime Minister David Cameron to appear before it to answer questions about the ex-leader's lobbying for the now failed supply-chain finance firm Greensill Capital. A series of inquiries have been launched into what access lobbyists have had to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government after questions were raised about Cameron's attempts to get support for Greensill. Cameron has denied breaking any code of conduct or government rules and the government has repeatedly said the outcome of his discussions on Greensill's proposals for access to a COVID-19 loan scheme were not taken up.
Netflix head of global TV Bela Bajaria says that staying authentically local is key to global success for the giant streaming platform. Speaking at the opening day of the annual Asia Pacific focused APOS conference, a virtual affair for the second year in a row due to COVID-19, Bajaria said that the localization process is […]
Netflix and Working Title have started production on “The Swimmers,” directed by “My Brother the Devil” helmer Sally El Hosaini. The film tells the true story of swimming sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini’s journey as refugees from war-torn Syria all the way to the 2016 Rio Olympics. In 2015, after their house was destroyed in […]
PBS is teaming with U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 and Arte France for feature-length documentary “Generation 9/11,” which marks the 20th anniversary of the twin tower attacks by following the children born to fathers who perished in the disaster. Produced by London-based outfit Arrow Pictures, the 120-minute doc introduces the youth born in the wake of […]
A new TV series will chart the rise and fall of Finnish cell phone company Nokia. Rabbit Films has begun production on “Mobile 1.0” (working title), a six-part scripted drama that explores the meteoric rise of Nokia to become the world’s leading manufacturer of mobile phones before a dramatic fall from grace. The Finnish and […]
Israel has registered eight cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India and believes that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is at least partially effective against it, an Israeli health official said on Tuesday. An initial seven cases of the Indian variant were detected in Israel last week among people arriving from abroad and who have since undergone preliminary testing, the Health Ministry said. "The impression is that the Pfizer vaccine has efficacy against it, albeit a reduced efficacy," the ministry's director-general, Hezi Levy, told Kan public radio, saying the number of cases of the variant in Israel now stood at eight.