WHO launches regional forum for phc-oriented health system

The World Health Organisation South-East Asia Region and partners on Tuesday launched the South-East Asia Regional...

Locally-grown school meals can be beneficial

School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic brought a decade's growth in school feeding programmes to a dramatic...

No legal compulsion to get COVID-19 vaccination, Centre tells SC

The Centre on Tuesday clarified to the Supreme Court that there was no legal compulsion to get a vaccination for...

Respect right to peaceful protest, rights group tell China

Over the weekend, thousands of people in Shanghai, China's biggest city and financial center, began publicly...

New analysis finds pandemic didn't dampen deforestation

Despite the massive upheavals in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, deforestation globally proceeded more or...

Gut microbes disturbed by COVID-19 infection, antibiotics

In an intensive look at the effects of the virus causing COVID-19 on patients' microbiome - the collection of...

China says fight against Covid 'will be successful'

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian's statement comes a day after protests erupted in Shanghai...

Shanghai protesters face off with police

Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over China's severe COVID-19...

Uyghur community holds protests in Turkey against Chinese govt

In Turkey, a protest was carried out by Uyghur activists in Istanbul at 2:00 am in the early hours of November 26...

Departing Foxconn employees trapped at China train stations

Violent worker protests erupted at the world's largest iPhone factory in central China as authorities at the Foxconn...

Tibetans tortured, harassed, jailed under Covid restrictions

Extreme Covid restrictions by Chinese authorities are making living conditions worse in Tibet.

Covid in China: Protests erupt in Xi Jinping's alma mater

In defiance of China's zero-Covid policy, hundreds of students on Sunday protested at President Xi Jinping's alma...