A fisherwoman rests in front of her house in Malaysia. File photo: VCGWalking across a swamp, retired fisherman Ilias Shafie and a small group of villagers plant mangrove saplings on Malaysia's west coast, one tree at a time. They have put in some 400,000 mangrove trees since a restoration i...
History justifies China's claim to Zangnan: FM Same old tricks were played by some Indian media and politicians once again as they hyped that Chinese border soldiers had "kidnapped" a 17-year-old boy in Zangnan, in the southern part of Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. H...
Refugee school children attend an official ceremony to return to school at one of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) schools at a Palestinian refugee camp al Wehdat, in Amman, Jordan, on Sept. 2, 2018. (Xinhua/Mohammad Abu Ghosh)The United Nations Relief and W...
In a memorandum, La Union schools division superintendent Donato Balderas Jr. said online and in-person classes as well as training and other activities in public schools in the province are suspended from Jan. 17 to 29.DAGUPAN, Philippines — Classes in La Union and in this city have been suspended...
People remain outside as men work at the Monaco building, which was once home to Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, and has been covered with pictures of victims of his Medellin cartel, in Medellin, Colombia, on Tuesday. Photo: AFPA Colombian court has ruled that the government cannot conduct...
The rate of vaccination against COVID-19 is displayed in the form of a temperature tower at an intersection in Gwangjin-gu district, Seoul in South Korea on January 12. Photo: VCG South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases exceeded 13,000 for the first time on Wednesday, driven by the spre...
People line up to receive COVID jabs outside a vaccination site at the Double Dragon Plaza building in Pasay yesterday. The national government started implementing on Monday a ‘no vax, no ride’ policy for public transport to limit the movement of unvaccinated people and curb the spread of the dis...
Chinese model of donating, helping countries access vaccines an example for other major powers like US: expertsThe first batch of the single-dose COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese company CanSino Biologics is seen at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Aug. 20, 2021. Phot...
A police officer stands guard just outside the University of Tokyo on January 16, 2022, one of the venues for nationwide university entrance exams, a day after two high-school students and a man were wounded in a knife attack that led to the arrest of a teenager on suspicion of attempted murder.Pho...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses a crowd via a video conference in the capital Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2022. Negotiating does not mean giving in to the enemy, he said as talks are taking place in Vienna between his country and world powers on the nuclear issue.Photo: AF...
