The authorities are inspecting homes, tracking purchases of fever medicines and deploying drones as they urge people to join an eradication campaign that echoes Covid measures.
Fogging with insecticide at a hospital in the Chinese city of Foshan, where officials are battling an outbreak of chikungunya, a painful mosquito-borne viral disease.
Record-setting rain has brought chaos to parts of Hong Kong, with submerged streets, stranded buses and landslides. Residents were advised to avoid going out.
Water spilling onto a street in the Quarry Bay area of Hong Kong on Tuesday. Parts of Hong Kong were brought to a standstill by flooding caused by days of heavy rains.
Sotheby’s had canceled an auction of the Piprahwa Gems after pressure from the Indian government. India said the relics were back in their “rightful home.”
A customer’s cash purchases of luxury goods totaling millions of euros in value caught the attention of prosecutors, who say the company should have noticed.
Bed sharing tends to be unpopular and contentious in the United States. But in many Asian countries, the question is often not whether to do it, but when to stop.