Julia Hollingsworth

Those who aspire to join China’s Communist Party face tighter membership rules -- a move that Xi Jinping hopes that will leave only the most devoted members.

Last weekend, 44% of Nepal’s Covid tests came back positive, according to government figures quoted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), as it warned of an impending crisis.

When cases rose in India, the country didn’t go into lockdown. Instead, the government allowed mass gatherings at religious festivals and political rallies to go ahead.

New Zealand and Australia were once lauded for their success in containing the spread of the coronavirus. But now they’re being criticized for their failure to quickly vaccinate their populations against Covid-19. What went wrong?

Reva-Lou Reva is worried. For the first time he can remember, he says hospitals around the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are so overburdened they are closing their doors to patients.

After a 150-year fight, Whanganui River has legal personhood. What happens next?

Sachimi Mochizuki has worked in Japan for two decades, but she’s never taken a day off for her period.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed victory in the country’s first major state election held during the pandemic.

More than 100 people are dead and thousands of homes have been submerged in some of Vietnam’s most severe floods in decades, with authorities warning that more bad weather is to come.

In mid-March, as the coronavirus pandemic began to take hold in Europe and the United States, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern presented her country with a choice.

New Zealand has extended a lockdown in its most populous city as the country battles a fresh community coronavirus outbreak that comes after months without any locally transmitted cases.

In Christchurch, New Zealand, seeing a wizard isn’t completely out of the ordinary. For decades, the city has had an official wizard.

More than half of residents living in Mumbai’s crowded slums may have contracted coronavirus and are likely being infected at a much higher rate than those not living in slum areas, a new study has found.

Experts warn that more people in New Zealand could become vulnerable to trafficking in the post-pandemic world.

For years, New Zealand has been seen as a plan B for wealthy preppers. So when disaster came in the form of the coronavirus, did they reap the rewards?

In two months, 19-year-old Tianyu Fang is due to start his first semester at one of the most prestigious schools in America: Stanford University in California. Now, the Chinese national isn’t sure if he’ll make it.