As protests continue in cities across China over the government’s harsh “zero-COVID” policy, a separate battle is taking place on social media sites within China and around the world, a fight that is testing the strength of China’s online censorship

MANILA – The Philippines reported 1,326 new COVID-19 infections yesterday, pushing the number of confirmed cases in the country to 4,033,682.   The Department of Health said, the number of active cases rose to 18,482, while 23 more patients died

SEOUL– Five people were killed, as a helicopter crashed, in the eastern coastal county of Yangyang, Gangwon province, South Korea, today.   The fire authorities have found five bodies, after extinguishing the fire, according to report.   The chopper crashed

Protesters, angry about long COVID-19 lockdowns, have taken to the streets in Urumqi, the capital of China’s far western Xinjiang region.   The protests followed a high-rise apartment building fire in Urumqi on Thursday that killed 10 people and concerns

JAKARTA– The death toll of Monday’s earthquake in west Indonesia has jumped to 268, and 151 others are still missing, a local official said, yesterday.   “The number of deaths has reached 268 people now,” Head of the National Disaster

KUALA LUMPUR– Malaysia reported 2,121 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight, bringing the national total to 4,969,420, according to the Health Ministry.   There were no new imported cases, with all 2,121 cases being local transmissions, data released on the