City officials ordered nearly 13 million residents to take Covid tests on Wednesday after a handful of cases were found, as China bids to stamp out the virus ahead of Beijing's Winter Olympics

Hong Kong announced a two-week ban on incoming flights from eight countries on Wednesday and tightened Covid-19 restrictions as authorities feared a fifth wave of the coronavirus

Other urban hubs where clusters have been detected face restrictions while Hong Kong authorities recall a giant cruise ship back to port

China's Zero-Covid policy threatens to worsen supply-chain disruptions and exacerbate inflationary pressures, says research firm Eurasia Group.

Pictures and videos from Vietnam News Agency showed thousands of trucks held up at border following reports that imported cases had been detected in Guangxi province

Restaurant groups and investment banks said they forked out millions of dollars on quarantine costs in 2021 so their staff could visit their families

The global technology and gadget show will now end on January 7

Israel's flag carrier will receive tens of millions of dollars from the state and El Al's controlling shareholders to help it weather the pandemic

The Omicron cluster identified in the northeastern province of Kalasin on Christmas Eve has been linked to a couple who had travelled from Belgium

Gross domestic product (GDP) is seen expanding 5.4% from the same period a year earlier, according to the median forecast of economists

The seasonally adjusted jobless rate in Japan rose 0.1 percentage point from the previous month for the first increase in six months

The Nasdaq-listed biotechnology firm approached Samsung to sell its shares, which could be valued at more than 50 trillion won ($42 billion)