Thai Army to Spray Bangkok Streets with Disinfectant Nightly
By CTN News Chiang Rai Times Thu, March 19, 2020 BANGKOK, Thailand – The Royal Thai army has begin spraying roads with disinfectant in Bangkok nightly to combat the spread […]
Indonesia – Company commissioner named suspect in Maluku illegal logging case
A Muh. Ibnu Aqil The Jakarta Post Thu, March 19, 2020 An investigator with the Environment and Forestry Ministry’s law enforcement division stands on a cut-down tree in a […]
Disinfecting Jakarta
BY :YUDHA BASKORO JAKARTA GLOBE WED, MARCH 18, 2020 Indonesian Red Cross personnel wearing protective gear march to the Sarinah department store in Central Jakarta to disinfect it on Tuesday. […]
NGO to sue Cambodia ‘land grab’ officer
Soth Koemsoeun The Phnom Penh Post Thu, March 19, 2020 Some 100 villagers protested at Phnom Oral wildlife Sanctuary. Photo supplied TRAPAING COMMUNE, Cambodia – National Resource and Wildlife Preservation […]
Covid-19 unlikely to cause further Cambodia factory closures
Thou Vireak | The Phnom Penh Post Thu, March 19, 2020 According to the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC), exports of travel goods last year were worth $1.2 billion, […]
Vietnam shutters borders with Cambodia as pandemic spreads
Sun Mesa / Khmer Times Thu, March 19, 2020 A Vietnamese security guard stands near the closed checkpoint at the Cambodia-Vietnam border in Svay Rieng province. Supplied HANOI – The […]
Visit Malaysia Year 2020 (VMY2020)cancelled
By New Straits Times March 18, 2020 Visit Malaysia Year 2020 (VMY2020) has been cancelled. -NSTP File pic KUALA LUMPUR: The Visit Malaysia Year 2020 (VMY2020) has been cancelled in […]
WHO calls for ‘aggressive measures’ against COVID-19 amid surge in South, East Asia region
Apriza Pinandita The Jakarta Post Wed, March 18, 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on member states in the South-East Asia region to urgently take “aggressive measures” to […]
Terawan must go, Indonesia civil groups say, demanding crisis-sensitive health minister
The Jakarta Post Tue, March 17, 2020 President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (‘left’) and Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto announce the country’s first two COVID-19 patients in Jakarta on March 2. […]
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