Bloomberg China criticised US President Donald Trump’s move to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) and pledged to support the global health body. Trump said he ordered the move against the WHO because it took China’s claims about the coronavirus “at face value” and failed to share information about the pandemic as it spread. China has “serious ...

Bloomberg South Korea’s ruling party may have won an outright majority in parliament in elections held on Wednesday, in a show of confidence for President Moon Jae-in’s handling of the pandemic that gives him fresh momentum to reshape the economy. Moon’s Democratic Party of Korea, which had 120 seats before the vote, and its satellite party could win at least ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned Tokyo could be facing as many as 80,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in a month if no action is taken as he declared a state of emergency in the capital and its surrounding regions. In what Abe said was the country’s greatest economic crisis since the end of World War Two, he declared a one-month ...