ANKARA, July 4 — Australia has abolished the mandatory declaration of Covid-19 vaccination status for travellers beginning this week, officials said on Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 4 — S&P Global Market Intelligence is projecting the aggregate dividend payout of the Asia-Pacific banking sector to grow at a slower pace of seven per cent year-on-year for the fiscal year (FY) of 2022 to US$209 billion (RM921.7 billion).

JAKARTA, July 3 — The traditional dry season for the southern region of Southeast Asia — comprising Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and southern Thailand — have started, said Asean Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC).

DAK LAK, July 3 — Vietnam aims to replant or transplant about 107,000 hectares of coffee in the 2021 - 2025 period, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

SEOUL, July 3 — South Korea's new Covid-19 cases stayed above 10,000 for the second consecutive day Sunday as the daily cases seemed to be rising again after months of subsiding.

SEOUL, July 2 — South Korea's new Covid-19 cases bounced back to over 10,000 Saturday as the daily cases seemed poised to take an upturn again after months of decline.

MOSCOW, July 2 — The number of monkeypox cases in Europe has tripled during the last two weeks, surpassing 4,500 cases, and was mostly detected in people aged from 21-40 years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge, said on Friday.

ROME, July 2 — Italy's Covid-19 transmission rate has increased for the fourth consecutive week, according to a weekly government report released Friday.

BANGKOK, July 1 —The Asia-Pacific population is ageing faster than any other region in the world and there are now 630 million people aged 60 years or over, representing 60 per cent of the world’s older persons.

TOKYO, July 1 — The Tokyo metropolitan government raised its Covid-19 alert to the second-highest of four levels Thursday amid a continuous rise in coronavirus infections for two consecutive weeks.

TOKYO, July 1 — The Tokyo metropolitan government raised its Covid-19 alert to the second-highest of four levels Thursday amid a continuous rise in coronavirus infections for two consecutive weeks.

MANILA, July 1 — An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 rattled Cagayan province in the northern Philippines before dawn on Friday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.

HANOI, June 30 — Vietnam’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is estimated to increase 7.72 per cent in the second quarter of this year, the highest rate in the same quarters in the last 10 years, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

SINGAPORE, June 30 — Indonesia has been approved as a new source to export frozen, chilled, and heat-processed chicken meat and chicken meat products to Singapore, Singapore Food Agency (SFA) announced today.

JAKARTA, June 30 — The delay in the repatriation of detainees due to travel restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic has been identified as the main cause of deaths of Indonesian detainees at the immigration depots in Sabah, Malaysia, according to the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

JEDDAH, June 30 — Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court announced that the Day of Arafah, the day Haj pilgrims make their way to Mount of Arafah, shall be on Friday, July 8 and Aidiladha shall be celebrated on the following day (Saturday, July 9).

JAKARTA, June 30 — Indonesia's parliament passed on Thursday legislation to create three new provinces in its underdeveloped region of Papua, a move critics fear could undermine the standing of the area's indigenous population and threaten special autonomy powers.

SINGAPORE/ JAKARTA, June 30 — Muslims in Singapore and Indonesia will celebrate Hari Raya Haji on July 10, 2022.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 — Moody's Investors Service (Moody’s) said the outlook for global credit conditions this year has turned more negative amidst slower global growth, rising borrowing costs, surging prices for energy and commodities, supply-chain disruption and increased financial market volatility.

MANILA, June 30 — Ferdinand Marcos starts his six-year term as Philippines president on Thursday facing a host of challenges, from rising inflation and pandemic recovery to balancing relations between competing superpowers the United States and China.