John Power

Air­crew speak­ing on con­di­tion of anonymi­ty warn avi­a­tion hub’s harsh quar­an­tine poli­cies are dam­ag­ing men­tal health.

Asian economies are tight­en­ing bor­ders and in-coun­try re­stric­tions de­spite ev­i­dence of vari­ant’s milder im­pact.

Asia-Pa­cif­ic head of avi­a­tion body sees Omi­cron as ‘tem­po­rary speed bump’ on path to re­cov­ery.

Hos­pi­tal data from New South Wales of­fers ten­ta­tive ev­i­dence the vari­ant is milder than oth­er strains.

Thou­sands of New Zealan­ders are un­able to re­turn home un­der a lot­tery sys­tem that crit­ics have brand­ed in­hu­mane.

Re­gion faces ques­tions about pan­dem­ic end goal as au­thor­i­ties main­tain re­stric­tions de­spite peak­ing vac­ci­na­tion rates.

Think tank says Bei­jing us­ing for­eign so­cial me­dia cre­ators to ‘neu­tralise crit­i­cal re­port­ing’ of treat­ment of Uighurs.

Mani­la-based de­vel­op­ment bank fore­casts slow­er growth for Chi­na, In­dia fol­low­ing emer­gence of new coro­n­avirus vari­ant.

Some mi­grants are giv­ing up on Aus­tralia af­ter near­ly two years in lim­bo un­der strict bor­der con­trols.

Rush by Asia-Pa­cif­ic coun­tries to slam bor­ders shut over the new vari­ant rais­es ques­tions about the end goal.