BANGKOK: Half of Thailand’s population - about 33 million people - could be infected by COVID-19 over the next two years...
Day: March 18, 2020
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s healthcare system has “sufficient flexibility and buffer” to manage the expected increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the...
GENEVA: The COVID-19 pandemic will significantly increase global unemployment, leaving up to 25 million more people out of work, and will...
JAKARTA: Indonesia reported 14 more COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday (Mar 18), taking the death toll to 19, a health ministry official...
Food supplies still coming, but other Singapore firms brace for disruptions from Malaysia’s shutdown
SINGAPORE: Local food importers heaved a sigh of relief as their supplies from Malaysia arrived as planned, uninterrupted by the...
SINGAPORE: Most imports of fresh food from Malaysia arrived as normal this morning, with other goods such as medicine and...
JAKARTA: Thousands of Muslim pilgrims from across Asia gathered in Indonesia on Wednesday (Mar 18), despite fears that their meeting...
SINGAPORE: St Andrew's Cathedral will be closed for two weeks after a church member was confirmed to have COVID-19. The church...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia reported 117 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday (Mar 18), bringing the total number of infections in the...
ISKANDAR PUTERI, Johor: The Johor state government is seeking special approval from the Malaysia federal government to reopen the land...
SYDNEY: As he rose rapidly from furniture businessman to mayor of Solo and governor of Jakarta to president of Indonesia,...
SINGAPORE: A taxi driver behind a collision in the driveway of a hospital that killed one and injured five others...
BEIJING: Packed onto a plane full of fellow Chinese students heading home from the United States, 20-year-old Harvard University undergraduate...
TAIPEI: Taiwan will ban entry to the island for most foreigners as part of coronavirus prevention measures, excluding foreign resident...