JAKARTA– Transgender Indonesian woman Chika Ananda Putrie wakes every morning in her decrepit rented room in a Jakarta slum, worried for her safety because
BEIJING – Chinese state media defended on Wednesday the retaliatory measures against South Korea and Japan over their COVID-19 travel curbs as “reasonable”, while Chinese tourists decried Seoul’s “insulting” treatment on social media. China re-opened its borders
QUITO – Ecuador reported its first case of human transmission of bird flu in a 9-year–old girl, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday, marking a rare case of human infection a month after the country declared an animal health
HANOI – Chinese display maker BOE Technology Group Co Ltd., a supplier of both Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd., plans to invest a substantial sum to build two factories in Vietnam, two people
FRANKFURT/MUNICH — Hurricane Ian in the United States and floods and Australia helped to make 2022 one of the costliest years on
LONDON — Some 150 years ago, the acclaimed constitutional writer Walter Bagehot wrote that the British monarchy needed reverence and mystery. “We
WASHINGTON — New Jersey and Ohio said on Monday they were joining other states in banning use of the popular video app
BEIJING — China began retaliating on Tuesday against South Korea and Japan, two of the countries which have imposed COVID-19 curbs on
NEWQUAY, England – Britain’s attempt to become the first European nation to launch satellites into space ended in bitter disappointment early on Tuesday when Virgin Orbit said
Pfizer Inc. is not in talks with Chinese authorities to license a generic version of its COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid for use there, but is in discussions about a price for
