Earlier, six Chinese provinces have lowered their coronavirus emergency response measures from the highest level. China decided to postpone the annual meeting of its parliament, due in March, for the first time since the Cultural Revolution, as the country is fighting the coronavirus outbreak, according to state media. According to CCTV, a state broadcaster, the new date for the parliament meetings,... 

Japan’s global suicide mission has now begun. Hours ago, Japan’s Ministry of Health (which should be called the “Ministry of Suicide”) authorized the release of thousands of cruise ship passengers onto the streets of Tokyo, even though previous testing has found that up to 26% of tested people on the ship are infected with the coronavirus. The justification for the release was that passengers... 

The deaths have been blamed on soy dust and hydrogen sulfide a byproduct of oil but while they are blaming it on anything but Coronavirus, they are calling it an “outbreak” which is weird. An outbreak of soy dust??? Maybe they are hiding the truth from us. An illness which affects the lungs and has killed 14 people and hospitalized over 200 in Karachi, may have been caused by soybean dust,... 

Our immune systems normally remember viruses in the memory cell and info is preserved there on how to fight that virus in the future and in the future if you get reinfected with the exact same virus, your immune system will destroy it before it gets the chance to multiply and manifest itself again but not in this case. This has got to be the world’s strangest virus we’ve ever seen. This... 

Covid-19, as they’re now calling it, also known as the Wuhan coronavirus, is spreading so quickly into nearby Vietnam that the southeast Asian country has now implemented its own mandatory quarantine, the first outside of China. Roughly 10,000 people living near Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, are reportedly under a government-imposed lockdown after six new cases of the coronavirus were identified at... 

The announcement of Carolina Shiino, an ethnic Ukrainian woman, as Miss Japan 2024 has ignited a lively debate in the country, shedding light on persisting racial barriers and perceptions of Japanese identity. Crowned with tears of joy on Monday, the 26-year-old model, who relocated to Japan at the age of five and was raised in Nagoya, expressed the challenges she faced in gaining acceptance as Japanese.... 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has deemed South Korea the hermit kingdom’s top enemy, eschewing any chances of reunification between the two nations divided by the 38th parallel. In a Jan. 15 speech, Jong Un said he concluded that peaceful reunification was no longer possible. He added that Pyongyang would scrub any reference to South Koreans as fellow countrymen or partners for reconciliation.... 

Lai Ching-te of Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been elected as the self-governing island’s new leader following Saturday’s presidential election. Lai, who entered the election as Taiwan’s vice president, claimed victory after the candidate representing the island’s main opposition party, Hou Yu-ih, conceded defeat. The DPP, which was seeking a third term in power,... 

A war over Taiwan between the United States and China could cost an unimaginable $10 trillion, equal to about 10 percent of the global GDP, dwarfing the impact of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. This is according to an analysis conducted by Bloomberg Economics, which noted that both the Global Financial Crisis and the 2019 pandemic only affected global... 

South Korea is planning to provide even more childcare and housing subsidies for new parents to combat the country’s rapidly crumbling fertility rate. The proposed measures, introduced by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, seek to encourage more couples to raise children to improve the country’s low fertility rate. This low rate has been attributed to a variety of factors, including high... 

Tensions escalate once again on the Korean peninsula as North Korea conducts live-fire drills near its maritime border with the South for the third consecutive day, prompting fears of a significant escalation in hostilities. Residents on Yeonpyeong Island, a border island last hit by North Korean shells in 2010, are urged to stay indoors as gunfire echoes nearby. While none of Pyongyang’s artillery... 

In a deeply unsettling incident that unfolded at Tokyo’s Akihabara station, a woman has been taken into custody following a stabbing rampage aboard a train. Reports from local media on Wednesday indicate that at least four individuals may have sustained injuries during this shocking episode, which has sent shockwaves through the city. The East Japan Railway Company, the train operator, indirectly... 

Transport Minister Tetsuo Saito confirmed that five Japan Coast Guard members died on Runway 34R at Tokyo’s Haneda airport after their plane collided with Japan Airlines flight JL516. An Airbus A350, operated by Japan Airlines and carrying hundreds of passengers, collided with a Japan Coast Guard (JCG) plane while landing at Haneda Airport in Tokyo late Tuesday. Flight tracking website Flightradar24... 

Japan’s western coast faced a significant 7.6 earthquake followed by a tsunami on Monday, creating concerns about the impact on nuclear power plants. The authorities reassured that, although several plants were affected, there have been no signs of “abnormalities” so far. The initial quake registered seven on the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Shindo seismic scale, indicating... 

In a resolute statement on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized that Beijing is committed to preventing the secession of Taiwan and asserted that the reunification of the island with the mainland is an inevitable trend. Speaking at a symposium marking the 130th birthday of Mao Zedong, President Xi addressed the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, outlining the determination...