Divers have found what they believe is the wreck of a U.S. Navy submarine lost 77 years ago in Southeast Asia, providing a coda to a stirring but little-known tale from World War II.
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Public trust in vaccine safety is slowly growing in Europe even as it dips in parts of Asia and Africa, researchers said Friday, calling for more investment in health information campaigns for the forthcoming Covid-19 vaccine.
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Tens of thousands of girls across Asia are being forced into marriage by desperate families plunged into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, as campaigners warn years of progress tackling the practice is being undone.
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South Korea counted its 11th straight day of triple-digit daily jumps in coronavirus cases Monday and health officials pleaded for people to follow guidelines or risk further restrictions or strains on hospitals.
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South Korea added its most new virus cases in months on Friday, driven by a surge around the capital that appears to be spreading nationwide.
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Yale University discriminates against Asians and whites in the undergraduate admissions process, the Department of Justice claimed Thursday.
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Vietnam on Friday reported its first death of a person from the coronavirus as it struggles with a renewed outbreak after 99 days with no local cases.
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Mountainous regions are home to a breadth of biodiversity found in few other ecosystems on Earth, but where does it all come from? Scientists have traced back plant life in the mountains of China 30 million years to its formation and the ensuing monsoons to find the answer.
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NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Tiger populations in five countries are making a comeback but the endangered species still faces
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China’s latest coronavirus outbreak has spread to a second city in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
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A group of Rohingya who survived a perilous sea voyage to Malaysia are to be caned for entering the country illegally, activists said Tuesday, decrying the “barbaric” sentence.
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Floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 221 people across South Asia over the past month, officials said Friday.
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A 15-year-old boy has died in western Mongolia of bubonic plague after eating an infected marmot, the country’s health ministry announced.
Read moreThe champion of the world in the fight against Covid-19, without any real competition, is Vietnam. Despite a 900-mile border with China, Vietnam mobilized and halted the spread of the virus with a mere 355 cases, all of whom recovered. No one has died from Covid-19 in a nation of 100 million people.
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The world saw the largest daily increases yet in coronavirus cases over the weekend. Brazil counted 54,771 and the United States was next at 36,617, the World Health Organization said.
Read moreSpreading invisibly online much the same way the coronavirus does, a new study published in Wednesday suggests there is a strong relationship between social media use and prejudice against Chinese Americans during the current pandemic infecting the world.
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The Austria-based International Press Institute has tracked 16 countries that have passed new laws targeting misinformation about the coronavirus. THE
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The Great Recession over a decade ago set off a number of trends for law school enrollment across the United States, according to a study that shows women outnumbered men and enrollment for Asian Americans has declined more than any other ethnic group.
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China and South Korea both reported more coronavirus infections Friday after reopening economies damaged by devastating outbreaks. Around the globe, governments accepting the risks of easing pandemic restrictions that left huge numbers of people without income or safety nets.
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There were signs Monday that the coronavirus pandemic was easing significantly in some parts of Europe but getting worse in India and Russia.
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