By Emiko Jozuka and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Kane Tanaka, the world’s oldest person, has died in Japan aged 119, according to a statement released by the country’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Tanaka, who was born on January 2, 1903, died on April 19, the ministry said. Guinness World Records said they were saddened
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By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau The shouts of locked-down residents demanding basic necessities, the cries of babies separated from their parents in quarantine, the pleas of a son repeatedly rejected by hospitals to treat his critically ill father, and the sobs of an exhausted local official who admits there is “no good policy”
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By Selina Wang, CNN Beijing is partially locking down to control a Covid outbreak that could completely shutter the Chinese capital. But just as the government is tightening controls in the city — testing 21 million residents, shutting schools and some shopping malls — I’m trying to get in. Flights from Tokyo to Beijing this
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By Emiko Jozuka, Junko Ogura, CNN and Reuters Eleven people have been confirmed dead after a Japanese sightseeing boat with 26 people on board went missing on Saturday. A child passenger who was rescued on Sunday has died, becoming the latest victim, a spokesman for the Japanese Coast Guard said Monday. The other victims included
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By Simone McCarthy Beijing is racing to track a Covid-19 outbreak that may have been spreading in the capital for a week, city authorities said over the weekend, raising the prospect more stringent restrictions could soon be implemented in line with other Chinese cities. Chaoyang, one of the city’s largest districts, announced Sunday that it
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy Beijing is racing to track a Covid-19 outbreak that may have been spreading in the capital for a week, city authorities said over the weekend, raising the prospect more stringent restrictions could soon be implemented in line with other Chinese cities. Chaoyang, one of the city’s largest districts, announced Sunday that it
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy Beijing is racing to track a Covid-19 outbreak that may have been spreading in the capital for a week, city authorities said over the weekend, raising the prospect more stringent restrictions could soon be implemented in line with other Chinese cities. Chaoyang, one of the city’s largest districts, announced Sunday that it
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By Junko Ogura, CNN and Reuters Nine people from a Japanese tour boat that went missing with 26 people on board have been found, the country’s coast guard said Sunday, as search and rescue efforts continue. They were found near the tip of Cape Shiretoko on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, according to the coast
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By Celine Alkhaldi and Ehsan Popalazai, CNN Separate explosions in northern Afghanistan on Thursday have killed at least 15 people and left dozens more injured, local officials said. An explosion at a Shia mosque in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif killed at least 10 and injured 32, Ghawsuddin Anwari, the head of a hospital treating
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By Eric Cheung, CNN The Taiwanese government is investigating a local TV news station after it aired alarming false reports of a Chinese invasion against the self-ruled island. During a Wednesday morning newscast on the government-affiliated Chinese Television System (CTS), part of the public Taiwan Broadcasting System, the network ran several fictional news tickers about
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By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau The men came after 2 a.m. on Tuesday in the dead of the night, banging on an apartment door in a rundown housing complex in Shanghai. When nobody answered, they pried open the lock and barged in, rousing a 92-year-old woman from her bed. The visitors demanded to
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau The shouts of locked-down residents demanding basic necessities, the cries of babies separated from their parents in quarantine, the pleas of a son repeatedly rejected by hospitals to treat his critically ill father, and the sobs of an exhausted local official who admits there is “no good policy”
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau The men came after 2 a.m. on Tuesday in the dead of the night, banging on an apartment door in a rundown housing complex in Shanghai. When nobody answered, they pried open the lock and barged in, rousing a 92-year-old woman from her bed. The visitors demanded to
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By Ehsan Popalzai, Nicola Careem and Hannah Ritchie, CNN At least six people have been killed and 11 others injured after multiple explosions rocked a high school and educational center in western Kabul on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear how many of the dead were students, but seven injured children were taken to a
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By Nectar Gan, CNN Shanghai reported three Covid-19 deaths Monday, the first officially announced fatalities from a raging Omicron outbreak that has infected hundreds of thousands of people despite a government-enforced city-wide lockdown. Three elderly people aged between 89 and 91 died from Covid on Sunday, after their condition deteriorated in hospital, the Shanghai Municipal
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN Shanghai reported three Covid-19 deaths Monday, the first officially announced fatalities from a raging Omicron outbreak that has infected hundreds of thousands of people despite a government-enforced city-wide lockdown. Three elderly people aged between 89 and 91 died from Covid on Sunday, after their condition deteriorated in hospital, the Shanghai Municipal
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By Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Russia has warned Japan of “retaliatory measures” if it expands joint naval exercises with the United States near Russia’s eastern borders. The threat is just the latest salvo from Moscow, which has been angered by Japan’s support for Ukraine and its growing ties with NATO countries, and is
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By Blake Essig, Junko Ogura, Daniel Campisi and Emiko Jozuka, CNN On most days, fisherman Kazushi Kinjo leaves port on the Japanese island of Yonaguni to catch deep sea red snapper in waters to the north. There, fish are plentiful — and increasingly, so are Chinese Coast Guard ships. Chinese ships patrol the sea around
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By Yoonjung Seo and Jessie Yeung, CNN North Korea fired two projectiles into waters off the east of the Korean Peninsula Saturday evening, according to the South Korean military, the country’s 12th such test this year. Images published Sunday by North Korea state-owned newspaper Rodong Sinmun showed the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, smiling and
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By Rukshana Rizwie and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN Three-year-old Miru plays with a bright red toy car, seemingly oblivious to the crisis unfolding around him. Outside the small room where he lives with his parents, an economic disaster is gripping Sri Lanka, prompting protests, food scarcity and electricity cuts — and leaving the medicine Miru needs
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