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Australia's Victoria logs 17 days with no community COVID-19 cases

Reuters
Posted at Jan 23 12:57 PM

Australia's Victoria state recorded its 17th straight day without any new local coronavirus cases on Saturday as officials focus on keeping the community separated from staff and players here for next month's Australia Open. Read more »

Myanmar receives first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from India

Shoon Naing, Reuters
Posted at Jan 23 12:55 PM

India is donating millions of doses of vaccines to a string of countries in Asia, drawing praise from neighbors and pushing back against China's dominating presence in the region.   Read more »

UK police break up COVID rule-breaching wedding with 400 guests

Reuters
Posted at Jan 22 09:06 PM

British police said on Friday they had broken up a wedding with almost 400 guests in a "completely unacceptable breach" of COVID lockdown rules which only allow six people to attend. Read more »

BARMM working to pass electoral, local gov't, and civil service codes in Q1: chief minister

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 22 06:12 PM

MANILA - Bangsamoro authorities on Friday is looking at the first quarter of the year to finish remaining priority codes, as it celebrates the second year anniversary of the ratification of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).   Read more »

Hungary buys Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, first in EU, minister says

Krisztina Than and Anita Komuves, Reuters
Posted at Jan 22 05:23 PM

Hungary has signed a deal to buy Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the first European Union country to do so, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a briefing during talks in Moscow on Friday. Read more »

German scientists make paralyzed mice walk again

Stephane Nitschke and Zuzanna Szymanska, Reuters
Posted at Jan 22 01:13 PM

German researchers have enabled mice paralyzed after spinal cord injuries to walk again, re-establishing a neural link hitherto considered irreparable in mammals by using a designer protein injected into the brain.   Read more »

Will Joe Biden meet Xi Jinping? China awaits clues to future of US relations

Sarah Zheng, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 22 12:50 PM

As the new US president begins to phone allies, his domestic and global priorities will help shape how he deals with Beijing. Observers believe that the Chinese president will be the keener of the leaders to make early contact.    Read more »

Japan privately concludes Tokyo Olympics should be canceled due to coronavirus: report

Reuters
Posted at Jan 22 10:36 AM

TOKYO - Japan's government has privately concluded the Tokyo Olympics will have to be cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Times reported, citing an unnamed senior member of the ruling coalition.  Read more »

Fire breaks out at India's Serum Institute complex; COVID vaccine production unaffected

Reuters
Posted at Jan 21 07:51 PM

There was no immediate word on the cause of the fire. Read more »

On Britain's COVID-19 frontline, medics and patients fight for life

Paul Sandle and Natalie Thomas, Reuters
Posted at Jan 21 05:22 PM

"It's difficult to keep going on a day-to-day basis for staff, just to see death in death out, every day."  Read more »

Carpio: Joint explorations in West PH Sea must follow service contract

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 21 05:14 PM

This is to assure the Philippines is not giving up its sovereign rights in the West Philippine Sea, retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said Thursday. Read more »

Taiwan invited to US inauguration for first time since 1979

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 21 01:43 PM

Hsiao Bi-khim, Taipei's envoy, posted a video of herself at Wednesday's inauguration saying she was "honored to represent the people and government of Taiwan here at the inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Harris."   Read more »

Vaccines become latest frontline in China's campaign to win hearts of Taiwanese

Yimou Lee, Reuters
Updated as of Jan 21 12:56 PM

China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, is making the free-of-charge offer at a time when the democratic island has yet to begin vaccinations of its own, with Chinese government departments and state media quoting Taiwanese in China in support of the program.   Read more »

Dead whale, one of Mediterranean's largest, found off Italy

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 21 12:52 PM

The carcass of a huge whale has been recovered from the waters off southern Italy, the coastguard said Wednesday, calling it "probably one of the largest" ever found in the Mediterranean.  Read more »

Biden seen to take pandemic 'seriously' as US reaches 400,000 COVID deaths

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 21 11:06 AM

US President Joe Biden is taking the COVID-19 pandemic "seriously" as the divided nation reached a grim toll of 400,000 deaths, some of whom were Filipino frontline workers, a government relations expert said Thursday.   Read more »

Zimbabwe's foreign minister dies after contracting COVID-19

Reuters
Posted at Jan 20 07:32 PM

Zimbabwe's foreign minister, Sibusiso Moyo, has died after contracting COVID-19, presidential spokesman George Charamba said on Wednesday. Read more »

Partial lockdown in Beijing over COVID-19 outbreak

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 20 04:32 PM

A partial lockdown was imposed on the Chinese capital Wednesday, with 1.6 million residents banned from leaving Beijing, after a handful of cases were detected.   Read more »

N. Korea cracks down on foreign media, speaking styles

Josh Smith, Reuters
Posted at Jan 20 01:43 PM

North Korea is imposing stiff fines or prison for anyone caught enjoying South Korean entertainment or copying the way South Koreans speak as leader Kim Jong Un steps up a war on outside influences and calls for better homegrown entertainment. Read more »

10 domestic helpers arrested in Hong Kong over bank accounts linked to money laundering and online scams

Clifford Lo, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 20 01:42 PM

Ten domestic helpers and a Hong Kong resident have been arrested for receiving payment in return for opening bank accounts that were used to collect and launder millions in swindled cash.   Read more »

'UP-DND Accord abrogation curtails students' freedom to think, speak'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 20 12:04 PM

The termination of an agreement between the University of the Philippines and the Department of National Defense that bars state forces inside the campuses curtails the students' freedoms, the chairman of UP Los Baños' student council said Wednesday. Read more »