Fully vaccinated New Zealanders and other eligible travellers from all other countries will be able to enter from February 13

Factory output across Malaysia, Vietnam and other nations bounced back in the past month as Covid-19 infections declined and production limits were raised

Fully vaccinated travellers from Singapore are now allowed into Melbourne or Sydney without the need to quarantine

Limits on social interactions and dining out to be expanded to five people from the current rule of up to two vaccinated people

Hong Kong's Secretary for Food and Health said adolescents aged 12 to 17 will be accorded priority to receive the CoronaVac vaccine

People will be able to cross from Hong Kong to mainland China in early December, but the initial quota will be limited to just a few hundred a day, the South China Morning Post said on Friday

The three countries' progress on vaccination, plus falling or low case numbers and relatively large tourism sectors were factors in them topping this rating, Oxford Economics said

Tokyo is also looking to beef up its storage battery sector as part of its multi-trillion-yen recovery plan

State agency says sector has been growing since 2016 and improves economic entrepreneurs who venture into the businesses

Crippled by Covid-19, Southeast Asian country's industrial sector tries to lure back former employees who returned to home provinces

The Chinese president has already urged leaders of the 21-member APEC group not to return to tensions of the Cold War era

The 7.5 million residents in the northeastern port face curbs on public transport and citizens were warned against leaving for unnecessary reasons