South Korea says it will close ski resorts and other tourist attractions during the Christmas and New Year holidays as it grapples with a surge in coronavirus cases.
At least two people died and 15 injured after Ammonia gas leaked from a fertilizer manufacturing plant in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, a local police official confirmed with Xinhua over phone on Wednesday.
The Philippines has imposed a ban on flights from Britain over fears of the transmission of a newly-detected coronavirus variant that is more infectious, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said on Wednesday.
Japan's Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo has agreed with his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh that the two countries will work together to realize a free and open Indo-Pacific region.