The Asian tiger mosquito doesn't pose a serious threat for Zika virus epidemics, in accordance with a brand new research.

Shares in Asia-Pacific have been buying and selling increased on the ultimate day of this 12 months as vaccine rollout elevated hopes for subsequent 12 months’s financial restoration. Nevertheless, the market’s optimism additionally pushed the greenback decrease. ...

India’s financial system is predicted to develop by 9.9 p.c subsequent yr, in keeping with Japanese brokerage Nomura, which has stated the nation is on the cusp of a cyclical restoration and will effectively be the fastest-growing Asian financial system. ...

The yuan has continued to strengthen in opposition to the US greenback on the finish of the week, rising most of all currencies within the Asia area, amid the sturdy restoration of the Chinese language economic system. ...

The US Division of Justice has sued Yale College for racial discrimination in its admissions course of, arguing the college intentionally put Asian and white candidates at a drawback for many years. ...

As relations between India and China worsen, New Delhi is contemplating measures to forestall commerce companions primarily in Southeast Asia from re-routing Chinese language items to India with little added worth. ...

The coronavirus outbreak has been very pricey to Asian financial growth, the Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF) stated because it revised down its forecast for the area and warned of attainable protracted restoration. ...

A small fowl carving - -the oldest occasion of East Asian three-dimensional artwork ever found -- is described in a brand new research.

The coronavirus pandemic may chop almost 10 p.c off world gross home product (GDP), the Asian Improvement Financial institution (ADB) predicts, greater than doubling its earlier forecast. ...

Shares in Asia completed the primary buying and selling day of the week with losses monitoring destructive sentiment on Wall Road because the Trump administration continues verbal assaults on China over the coronavirus pandemic. ...