Beijing's Fengtai district said residents in more areas should not leave their residential compounds for unnecessary reasons and must have a daily covid test

Covid prompts soul-searching among many relatively affluent expats in Singapore, where foreigners workers make up a fifth of the 5.5 million population

The Adelaide, a landing helicopter dock ship, was deployed as part of an international aid effort after the January 15 volcano eruption

Plan comes as carrier restructures its business with passenger flights grounded since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020

"We anticipate an exodus of foreigners, probably the largest that Hong Kong has ever seen, and one of the largest in absolute terms from any city in the region in recent history," it said.

The consumer sentiment index rose as investors became more optimistic about the outlook of Asia’s fourth-largest economy

US Embassy sends request to Washington for formal sign off, as China ramps up Covid-19 containment protocols ahead of the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics

China should "recalibrate" its aggressive anti-Covid-19 policy to try to ease the negative impact the pandemic continues to have on global supply chains and economic growth, the IMF's No.2 said

The city said travellers arriving from the financial hub would be required to spend 14 days at designated facilities and another week at home

The city-state saw a historically low 330,000 visitors in 2021, according to the Singapore Tourism Board, due to the impact of restrictions

The territory’s financial sector faces losing thousands of foreign professionals who have had enough of its strict Covid lockdowns and restrictions

Flare-ups persist ahead of the Winter Olympics in Beijing in two weeks. Officials in four provinces have found infections linked to clusters in the capital, it was revealed on Monday