December 8, 2020 Mount Everest has grown taller China and Nepal jointly announced a new official height for Mount Everest on Tuesday, ending a discrepancy between the two nations.
November 29, 2020 Singapore mother had COVID-19, gave birth to boy with antibodies Cases of antibodies in infants have been studied in China, with most cases showing a rapid decline in antibody presence after birth.
November 28, 2020 Taiwan lawmakers throw pig guts, punches on parliament floor Lawmakers in Taiwan got into a fist fight and threw pig guts at each other Friday over a soon-to-be enacted policy that would allow imports of U.S. pork and beef.
November 24, 2020 Firefighters, neighbors rescue 2-year-old boy dangling from high-rise building in China, video shows A 2-year-old boy in China was rescued by firefighters and neighbors after he fell out a window on the 13th floor of a hi-rise building in the city of Hefei on Sunday night.
November 14, 2020 Vietnam braces for Typhoon Vamco, 53 dead in Philippines Vietnam was bracing for Typhoon Vamco to make landfall in the country’s central coast early on Sunday local time, as the death toll in the Philippines rose to 53 from that country’s deadliest storm this year.
November 12, 2020 Typhoon-ravaged northeast Philippines pummeled by new storm A typhoon swelled rivers and flooded low-lying areas as it passed over the storm-battered northeastern Philippines, where rescuers worked Thursday to help people flee the rising waters.
November 12, 2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy legislators hand in resignations Hong Kong’s pro-democracy legislators began resigning in protest Thursday, one day after the government ousted four members of their camp.
November 5, 2020 Election 2020: As votes tallied up, rest of the world awaits results It is not just Americans hanging on the edge of their seats as they await definitive news on who will be their next president – incumbent Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden.
November 4, 2020 US officially withdraws from Paris climate pact The United States on Wednesday formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact forged five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change.
November 1, 2020 Powerful typhoon lashes Philippines, killing at least 10 A super typhoon blew into the eastern Philippines with disastrous force Sunday, killing at least 10 people and triggering volcanic mudflows that engulfed about 150 houses before weakening as it blew away from the country, officials said.