Bloomberg Malaysia will extend its movement control order on Top Glove Corp’s worker dormitories in Klang by two weeks to December 14 because of rising coronavirus cases there, according to Defense Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob at a media briefing. The movement control at at the company’s dormitories started on November 17 and was supposed to end on Monday, but there ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong introduced the city’s toughest public-gathering restrictions in months and decided to send civil servants back to work-from-home arrangements as the government steps up efforts to contain the latest wave of coronavirus infections in the Asian financial hub. Public gatherings will be limited to two people, including at restaurant tables and at sports venues, Chief Executive Carrie Lam ...

Bloomberg Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he was seeking an apology from China after a diplomat in Beijing tweeted an image purporting to show an Australian soldier holding a knife to the throat of an Afghan child. The tweet, posted by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, was “repugnant,” Morrison told reporters in Canberra on Monday. The Australian premier ...