China's drug regulator has approved the country's first mixed-vaccine trial, a company involved in the study said, as the rapid spread of the Delta variant raises concern about the efficacy of domestically produced jabs.The trial will test the efficacy of combining an "inactivated" vaccine made by China's Sinovac with a DNA-based one developed by United States (US) pharmaceutical company Inovio, a statement issued on Tuesday said.The statement was put out by Advaccine

A massive Chinese-financed dam in Cambodia has "washed away the livelihoods" of tens of thousands of villagers while falling short of promised energy production, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday.The 400-megawatt (MW) Lower Sesan 2 dam in the kingdom's northeast has sparked controversy since long before its December 2018 launch.Fisheries experts had warned that damming the confluence of the Sesan and Srepok rivers – two major tributaries of the resource-rich Mekong River –

The focus immediately shifts to Beijing as the curtain falls on the Tokyo Olympics, with a growing coronavirus outbreak in China and boycott calls looming large just six months from the start of the 2022 Winter Games.The Beijing 2022 Olympics are scheduled to take place from 4 to 20 February, when the Chinese capital will become the first city to host a Winter and Summer Games.New venues have been constructed and some from Beijing 2008, including the "Bird's Nest" National Stad

COVID-19 has now been with us for more than a year and a half. It has stopped societies in their tracks, triggered sharp economic downturns, and killed more than 4.2 million people. But we still do not know where the deadly virus came from, for a simple reason: China does not want us to know. China first reported that a novel coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan weeks after its initial detection. This should not be a surprise.

A Chinese state media interview with an Olympic gold medallist asking when she would get married and have children has sparked backlash online.The CCTV segment with Gong Lijiao, who won the women's shot-put final on Sunday, also described her as a "manly woman".Netizens have criticised the interview calling it sexist and narrow-minded.They discussed it online with the hashtag: "Is marriage the only thing that can be talked about women?"The questions have led many to o

The number of COVID-19 infections recorded worldwide passed 200 million on Thursday, an AFP count showed, as the pandemic surges around the world, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region where the Australian city of Melbourne locked down again.The highly contagious Delta variant has driven the virus to return with a vengeance, the number of daily cases recorded worldwide rising by 68 percent since mid-June.But as more of the world gets vaccinated against the coronavirus – particularly in weal

In March 2020, Cambodian authorities made it clear they would take no chances with COVID-19. Tourism visas were suspended. Land borders were closed, leaving citizens stranded. Curfews and domestic travel restrictions emptied the kingdom’s world-renowned archaeological sites of visitors and shut down once-bustling nightlife spots.For nearly a year, such vigilance made Cambodia a COVID-19 success story.

During the four decades of the Cold War, the United States (US) had a grand strategy focused on containing the power of the Soviet Union.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Tuesday warned the United States (US) against aggressively challenging China, saying Washington's increasingly hard-line views could be "very dangerous."He said the US had moved from an approach of healthy competition with China to the view that America "must win, one way or another.""There is (US) bipartisan consensus today on one thing, which is relations with China," he told the Aspen Security Forum."But th

As the debate continues over the origins of the coronavirus, a heated political battle is taking place over virus research carried out in China using United States (US) funds.It's linked to the unproven theory that the virus could have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city where it was first detected.A report released by Republican lawmakers cites "ample evidence" that the lab was working to modify coronaviruses to infect humans and calls for a bipartisan investigation i