The Manila Times on MSN13h
Five years on, the economic impact of COVID-19 lingers
Five years after the World Health Organization first described the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic, its effects ...
Yeni Şafak1d
Japan faces worst shortage of full-time workers since COVID-19 pandemic
The information service sector appeared to be most in need of full-time workers, with shortages of system engineers, followed ...
Malay Mail1d
Japan faces worst full-time worker shortage since Covid, firms struggle to hire
Japanese firms are feeling the most acute shortage of full-time workers since the Covid-19 pandemic, with more than half of ...
Five years on: The countries that never locked down for Covid-19
Most of the world went into lockdowns in March 2020 response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but what has been the impact in those ...
What Scientists Just Discovered About COVID-19’s Hidden Death Toll
COVID-19 didn’t just claim lives directly—it reshaped mortality patterns worldwide. A major international study found that ...
Nikkei Asia1d
Chinese students flock to Japanese art colleges for permanent residency
TOKYO -- Li Yalin, a 28-year-old second-year master's student at the private Kyoto University of the Arts, moved to Japan in ...
Kyodo News on MSN1d
Japan's shortage of full-time workers at worst level since COVID
Japanese firms are feeling the most acute shortage of full-time workers since the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than half of ...
Will eased regulations prevent Japan getting lapped again in vaccine development race?
After lagging far behind European countries and the United States on COVID vaccine development, Japan has set about amending ...
Gulf News16d
Only one in six Japanese citizens has a passport
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, about a quarter of Japanese people held valid passports Only around one in six Japanese citizens hold valid passports, fresh data shows, with the number of residents ...
5 years after COVID, Americans are split on whether it's still a threat
Pew Research Center conducted a survey to gauge Americans’ views on the current COVID risk and how the pandemic was handled.
No upturn for Japan in fertility rate, births at record low with 2 deaths for every new baby born
Japan’s most recent fertility data showed a rate of 1.20 births per woman in 2023. One major factor behind Japan’s declining ...
Daily Graphic4d
COVID-19 — How countries without lockdowns fared 5-years later
Most of the world found itself confined to their homes in March 2020 as Covid-19 spread at a blistering pace. Some countries ...