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SINGAPORE: A passenger aboard a Royal Caribbean ‘cruise-to-nowhere’ from Singapore has tested positive for Covid-19, forcing around 2,000 guests to be quarantined in their cabins and the Quantum of the Seas ship to return to dock on…

SYDNEY: Facebook and Google could be required to pay news outlets for their content in a “world first” legislation set to be introduced to Australia’s parliament on Wednesday. In one of the most aggressive moves to check the power of the…

WUHAN: Hundreds of shoppers pack a wet market on a December weekday morning in the Chinese city of Wuhan, jostling to buy fresh vegetables and live fish, frogs and turtles. Almost a year since the city reported the world’s first cases of…

GOMBAK: Diminutive Malaysian delivery rider Muhammad Sidek Osman cuts a striking figure weaving through traffic on a modified four-wheeled motorbike, on his way to drop off food. Birth complications left him stooped and shorter than…

WASHINGTON: Giant pandas will remain at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington for another three years under an agreement reached with Chinese wildlife officials, the zoo said on Monday (Dec 7). The panda loan deal between the United…

SYDNEY: Officials in the Australian State of Queensland reaffirmed their bid to host the 2032 Olympic Games on Monday, after having put their effort on hold to deal with COVID-19. State Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told reporters that…

SYDNEY: Australia's second-largest city welcomed its first international passenger flight in five months on Monday (Dec 7), an arrival that will test the state of Victoria's revamped hotel quarantine system. Australia has since March…

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s social affairs minister was arrested Sunday for allegedly taking US$1.2 million in bribes linked to food aid for those hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Juliari Batubara was named as a suspect after Indonesian…

JAKARTA: Indonesia received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccine from China on Sunday (Dec 6), President Joko Widodo said, as the government prepares a mass inoculation programme. Jokowi, as the president is widely known, said in an…

LIVERPOOL, England: Mohamed Salah scored one and made another as Liverpool thrashed a hapless Wolverhampton Wanderers 4-0 in the Premier League on Sunday (Dec 6) on a night to forget for Wolves captain and former Reds player Conor Coady. A…