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By Ruma Paul and Victoria Waldersee DHAKA (Reuters) - Major global retailers agreed to extend for a further two years a legal agreement with garment workers and factory owners in Bangladesh that subje...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's coronavirus task force on Wednesday called on pregnant women in the country to get vaccinated against COVID-19, citing a higher risk of deaths among those who become inf...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Sprint queen Elaine Thompson-Herah says she has set her sights on lowering the long-standing record for the women's 100 metres, believing it is now within reach. The ...

By James Pomfret and Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's former chief judge urged the city's solicitors to continue speaking up for the rule of law, saying it was their duty to the public, a...

By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) - Non-fungible token (NFT) sales surged in August, according to the largest platform for the burgeoning digital asset class, as speculators bet growing interest ...

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In the first week following the Taliban conquest of Kabul, COVID-19 vaccinations in Afghanistan have dropped by 80%, the U.N. agency UNICEF said, warning th...

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam is offering patients who have recovered from the coronavirus a monthly allowance if they agree to stay on at stretched hospitals to help health workers struggling to cope wit...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse has asked all non-vaccinated staff in the United States to work from home beginning Sept. 7, as it pushes back its return-to-office plans over concerns about the sprea...

By Chen Lin SINGAPORE/HANOI (Reuters) - While the rapid spread of the Delta variant and low vaccinations have caught much of Asia off-guard, no country shows more vividly than Vietnam how easily the h...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will supply millions of additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to its states to try to inoculate all school teachers by early next month, the health minister said on Wednesday, ...