Bloomberg The Philippines has decided to ban travellers from 20 nations with the new Covid-19 strain, Labour Secretary Silvestre Bello said on Tuesday. The travel ban covers Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, and the UK, Bello said. The ban will be effective December ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who was charged earlier this month with colluding with foreign forces under city’s new national security law, resigned as chairman of Next Digital Ltd, the company he founded said in a filing on Tuesday. Lai, 73, tendered his resignation “in order to spend more time dealing with his personal affairs,” according to the ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump’s campaign to cut North Korea’s economy off from the world worked. But it also may have accelerated Kim Jong Un’s efforts to build a military less reliant on foreign support. The North Korea awaiting President-elect Joe Biden is more dangerous and more self-reliant, possessing at least three different intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear ...