The latest outbreak is tiny by global standards but authorities are proceeding with the testing campaign that has seen many people locked in residential compounds for days

Karana has partnered with restaurants in San Francisco to offer products to Empress, a Cantonese restaurant by Michelin-starred chef Ho Chee Boon, and Wildseed, best known for its vegan pizza

Research revealed a doubling of gross tropical forest carbon loss worldwide from 0.97 gigatonnes of carbon per year in 2001–2005 to 1.99  gigatonnes in 2015–2019 due to rapid forest loss

EQT Mid Market Asia III fund made the investment in Guardian Shanghai Hygiene Service, which has a substantial presence in China's populous southern and eastern provinces.

ADB prescribed easing barriers to transport and trade, and boosting investments in education, training, health systems, social assistance, green infrastructure and technology

The US FDA had said it would approve drugs based on China-only trials. Last month it did a U-turn, arguing that single-country trials are a step backward in achieving the racial diversity the US needs.

Signs of growing public frustration and anger have emerged across China as authorities enforce their 'zero-Covid' policy to try to counter the more infectious Omicron variant

Vietnam reopened its doors to foreign tourists with relaxed entry rules last week, but experts are worried the absence of tourists from China, Japan and Korea will be difficult to fill

The latest wave of Covid-19, driven by the more contagious Omicron virus, has resulted in more than 20,000 infections all over the country

Major Apple supplier said in a statement it has "basically resumed normal work order and production operations" in Shenzhen

Hesta chief executive Debby Blakey said Facebook's social licence to operate had been undermined by successive scandals involving poor oversight of content regulation

Analysts however await a significant recovery in inbound tourism, with tourists currently a fraction of travellers entering under vaccinated travel lane scheme