North Korea canceled two major annual festivals in Pyongyang celebrating the birthday of late communist dictator Kim Jong-il due to fears of a potential spread of coronavirus, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Friday.
Deadly leftist riots throughout Latin America and the leftist regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua enabling them are unequivocal signs of how fragile Latin American democracies still are.
Pro-democracy Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was arrested on Friday for participating in an “unauthorized assembly” in August. Lai’s arrest was greeted with international outrage and interpreted as a dark omen for the future of freedom in Hong Kong. Chinese state media countered with a tornado of propaganda that portrayed Lai as a monstrous symbol of lawlessness whose arrest was a vital step toward subduing the long-running protest movement.
The U.S. Navy disclosed on Friday that a Chinese destroyer in the western Pacific targeted an American plane flying over international waters with a laser. The U.S. Pacific Fleet denounced China’s action as an “unsafe and unprofessional” provocation that violated both international maritime codes and agreements reached between America and China.
Two medical workers from hospitals in Guangzhou, China, wrote a profoundly disturbing letter to famed British medical journal the Lancet this week, detailing hideous working conditions in coronavirus wards, dire shortages of medical supplies, and an atmosphere of anxiety and despair among nursing staff. The letter was suddenly retracted on Wednesday at the request of the authors, raising suspicions they were pressured to discredit themselves by the Chinese Communist Party.
Hollywood studios are reportedly bracing to lose billion of dollars in ticket sales in Asia and other countries due to fears surrounding the coronavirus as major blockbusters including “Mulan,” “No Time to Die,” and “F9” (Fast & Furious 9) are set to roll out around the world.
Hong Kong police arrested the owner of anti-communist newspaper Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai, along with pro-democracy Labour Party vice-chair Lee Cheuk-yan and former lawmaker Yeung Sum, on Friday morning for participating in protests in August.
A passenger from a cruise ship which was quarantined in Japan has died, the first Briton known to have succumbed to Coronavirus worldwide.
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday once again downplayed the notion China poses a threat to the United States, telling South Carolina supporters in a speech it’s “bizarre” to say the communist regime posses any competition.
A Hong Kong coronavirus patient has revealed her pet dog has a “low level” of the virus, local health authorities confirmed early Friday.
WASHINGTON — The National Symphony Orchestra canceled the five remaining performances in Japan of its Asian tour because of a new virus epidemic.
SEOUL, South Korea — K-pop superstars BTS canceled an upcoming concert series in South Korea’s capital as the country that exports entertainment worldwide tries to contain a soaring virus outbreak.
Chinese multiple Olympic and world swimming champion Sun Yang has been banned from the sport for eight years for breaking anti-doping rules after a vial of his blood was smashed with a hammer.
The first confirmed case of Chinese coronavirus in Latin America is triggering concern across socialist Venezuela, whose healthcare system is dismally ill-prepared to handle the challenge of a mass health epidemic.
Uyghur activists say the situation their oppressed people face in China’s Xinjiang province is even worse than previously believed, with hunger sweeping the area and medicine shortages caused by the coronavirus lockdown.
According to reports, Disney cut a kissing scene from its upcoming Chinese release of ‘Mulan,’ because Chinese censors demanded the change.
According to Chinese state media reports, five officials in the city of Jingmen – located in Hubei province, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak – have been mildly disciplined for reporting a negative number of virus infections.
Dr. Zhong Nanshan, China’s “top respiratory specialist” according to state-run media, on Thursday floated a completely unsubstantiated theory that the Wuhan coronavirus did not originate in China.
Social media giant Facebook has reportedly banned ads related to the coronavirus that the site categorizes as “misinformation and harmful content.”
Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo ordered the closure of all elementary, middle and high schools on Thursday until the beginning of the country’s spring holidays in late March in a bid to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Italy’s patient one was forced to wait 36 hours before he was tested, potentially losing precious time in preventing the spread of the virus.
Authorities have stolen and wasted food donated to a Chinese city struggling under the pressure of a Coronavirus lockdown in China’s Hubei Province, The Epoch Times reported Tuesday.
Chinese state media continued their efforts this week to mitigate political damage from the coronavirus epidemic by claiming Western concerns about the spread of the disease, and complaints about China’s lack of transparency, are founded in “xenophobia” and “white supremacist racism” reminiscent of the “Yellow Peril” hysteria of the late 19th Century.
The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen wants local restaurants to take dogs and cats off their menus as the country clamps down on the wildlife trade scientists suspect led to the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
Australia declared Thursday it is ready for any coronavirus global pandemic as it extended a travel ban on visitors from China with immediate effect.
Nearly 90 percent of the world’s most polluted cities are in China and India, and the majority of the rest are in Pakistan and Indonesia, researchers from the 2019 World Air Quality Report revealed on Tuesday.
A senior Indonesian Health Ministry official baffled journalists by insisting that a man who tested positive for “SARS-CoV-2” did not have “COVID-19,” the Jakarta Post reported on Tuesday. The former is the virus that causes the latter.
Tech giant Apple is facing a shareholder vote on a proposal critical of the company’s decision to remove apps from its store at the request of the Chinese government. Shareholders want to ask Tim Cook and his company if it is “publicly committed to respect freedom of expression as a human right.”
A Korean Air flight attendant who worked flights from Los Angeles International Airport has been infected with the deadly coronavirus, according to South Korean national daily newspaper, JoongAng Ilbo.
Homeland security chief Chad Wolf suggested Tuesday that the flu is as dangerous as China’s novel coronavirus, even though China’s virus seems to be ten times as deadly.
First Lady Melania Trump departed New Delhi, India, in a bright pink gown and an updo as she and President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump criticized cable news on Wednesday for hyping fears of the coronavirus spreading further into the United States.
Authorities in western Germany said Wednesday that a man who contracted COVID-19 is in critical condition and has been taken to hospital.
“And insists on it. And insist, insist, insist. I could get that done,” Biden said, struggling to describe how he would get China to change its coronavirus policies.
Chinese state media reported on Monday that the sale of wild animals and consumption of their meat has been banned to slow the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, which is generally believed to have spread from animals to humans. The wild animal trade in China is valued at almost $75 billion and employs over 14 million people.
Chinese officials announced the first confirmed coronavirus cases among the oppressed Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang province last week.
“Current global circumstances suggest it’s likely this virus will cause a pandemic,” Principal Deputy Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Anne Schuchat, told reporters at a news briefing on Tuesday.
At least 10 people have died since Sunday evening in Delhi, India, following riots over a law to protect victims of religious persecution fleeing Muslim countries during President Donald Trump’s first official visit to the nation.
Tuesday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) sounded off on President Donald Trump requesting $2.5 billion to be used to combat the coronavirus.
A recent episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight has been blocked in India after host John Oliver went on an extended rant criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to a new report. The censorship didn’t come from Modi’s administration but rather a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Co.
