An award-winning Hong Kong journalist has been convicted of providing false statements to access a database as part of an investigation into alleged police mishandling of a violent mob attack on pro-democracy protesters in 2019. [...]

How the European Super League united football against the game's wealthy owners

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Protests and demonstrations banned at 2020 Tokyo Olympics as Rule 50 upheld

The ban preventing athletes from protesting or demonstrating at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been upheld by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). [...]

300 passengers flee airport in Assam to avoid testing

Criminal action to be initiated against passengers. [...]

Special: When will the pandemic end? 2025 or later, say scientists

What governments can do immediately is close the vaccine access inequity gap as much as possible, they said. [...]

UAE's Ramadan food donation drive meets target in 10 days

Over 185,000 donors helped raise Dh100 million in 10 days to secure food parcels in 30 countries. [...]

500k more Sinovac doses arrive in PHL; total Sinovac doses delivered reach 3 million

(Eagle News) – Another 500,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine arrived from China on Thursday, April 22, as scheduled, bringing the total number of Sinovac doses delivered to the country at 3 million. Total vaccine doses now reached 3.525 million including the 525,600 AstraZeneca doses from the COVAX Facility. The Philippine government said that the additional SInovac doses would be used to vaccinate those in the A1 to the A4 priority list. The A1 group […] [...]

UAE warns of restrictions for unvaccinated as doses near landmark

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — The UAE announced Wednesday it had given nearly 10 million vaccine doses, equal to one for every resident, after warning that those who remained unvaccinated would face restrictions on their movement. The United Arab Emirates has mounted an energetic coronavirus vaccination campaign for its citizens as well as the foreigners who make up the majority of the population. However, daily infection rates remain high after it became one of […] [...]

Germany seeking to buy 30 million Sputnik doses from Russia: state premier

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany is in talks with Russia to buy 30 million doses of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine once it is approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Saxony state premier Michael Kretschmer said on Thursday. “Germany is negotiating 3 x 10 million doses for June, July, August. The prerequisite for this is the swift EMA approval of the vaccine,” Kretschmer, who is in Moscow for talks, wrote on Twitter. © Agence […] [...]