Six months on from the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 as a global threat, there is still no clarity about its origins. Those who speculate that the virus may have been manipulated in a […]
This article has been updated. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has removed the drug hydroxychloroquine from its Solidarity trial, in which possible treatments for Covid-19 are being tested. The latest development is […]
The audio digest of “Covid-19: as SARS-CoV-2 spreads, discord over lockdowns increases” is now online:
Audio digest of this article: See updates (at the end of this article) about the WHO resuming its hydroxychloroquine trial and three of the authors of the controversial article about hydroxychloroquine published […]
New information has been added to this article (updates at the end), but the statistics are as of the date of publication. Up-to-date statistics can be found here. At 18/4/2020 the number […]
DALIAN CONFERENCE, PART TWO. The 11th Asia for Animals conference, which took place in Dalian, China, brought together hundreds of delegates from all fields of animal protection, rescue, and advocacy. Focused on […]
DALIAN CONFERENCE, PART ONE. The 11th Asia for Animals (AfA) symposium, which has just taken place in Dalian, China, was focused on how laws can be used creatively to protect nonhuman animals. […]
The 11th Asia for Animals (AfA) symposium will take place in Dalian, China, from October 18 to 20, 2019. The theme is using laws creatively to protect animals. More than four hundred […]
As the governments involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 warn that the operation in the southern Indian Ocean will be suspended soon if no evidence is found, and the […]
Delegates at the Asia for Animals conference in Kuching on Malaysian Borneo heard about the horrors of the dog meat trade, the decline in animal populations, and the devastation being caused by […]
In a call to action at the 2015 Asia for Animals conference, the CEO of International Animal Rescue, Alan Knight, urged delegates to call on YouTube and Google to adopt an animal […]
French sculptor Paulo Grangeon has brought his “1,600 pandas” exhibition to Malaysia to raise awareness about the number of the animals now left in the wild. Grangeon braved the heat and jetlag […]
Five of the reconnaissance aircraft scouring the southern Indian Ocean today for wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 found objects that could be debris from the plane. The objects were sighted […]
Satellite images, provided to Malaysia by Airbus Defence and Space in France, show 122 potential objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370. […]
The chairman of Malaysia Airlines, Mohammad Nor Yusof, said today that, based on the new evidence announced by Malaysia’s prime minister yesterday, it had to be accepted that flight MH370 was lost […]
France today provided satellite data about objects that could be debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The French authorities sent the data to Malaysia this morning and Malaysia immediately relayed it […]
A Chinese satellite has detected a floating object in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The object is 22.5 metres long and 13 metres […]
The Australian-led air search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was called off this evening without anything being found. The search teams are scouring the remote waters of the southern Indian Ocean to […]
Australia’s prime minister, Tony Abbott, announced in parliament today that satellite imagery shows two objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Military aircraft […]
There were emotional scenes at the Sama-Sama hotel at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport today when relatives of Chinese passengers on board the missing flight MH370 came to the hotel where the press […]
