All Indonesia’s 34 Provinces Now Affected by Coronavirus
BY :HERU ANDRIYANTO JAKARTA GLOBE FRI, APRIL 10, 2020 Two Indonesian Red Cross personnel on a three-wheeler spray disinfectant along a narrow road in Central Jakarta. (JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro) JAKARTA […]
Meikarta Peduli Helps Siloam Build Six New Covid-19 Emergency Hospitals in Indonesia
BY :PRIMUS DORIMULU JAKARTA GLOBE WED, APRIL 8, 2020 Meikarta Peduli workers are on site 18 hours a day to complete six emergency hospitals for Siloam in 14 days across […]
Vientiane Economic Officials Patrol Wet Markets, Enforce Price Controls
By Francis Savankham The Laotian Times Wed, April 8, 2020 Vientiane officials patrol Huakhua Market for opportunistic price gouging of essential goods such as pork. Photo courtesy of Vientiane Mai. […]
Vietnam donates half million face masks to five European countries crippled by Covid-19
Minh Anh The Hanoi Times Tue, April 2020 Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister To Anh Dung and four European ambassadors at the symbolic handover in Hanoi, April 7, 2020. Photo: Vietnam’s […]
Cambodia’s temporarily laid-off workers to get just $70
Long Kimmarita The Phnom Penh Post Tue, April 7, 2020 The government decided that employers would pay laid-off garment workers $30 and the government would pay $40 instead of the […]
MALAYSIA – RM30,850.00 of food aid distributed in one day to Orang Asli (Indigenous People)
Center for Orang Asli Concerns (COAC) Wed, April 8, 2020 20 villages were able to distribute their food rations on Tuesday (7 April 2020). There were 4 Temuan villages in […]
Indonesia – This Is How Local Quarantine Should Be Done
BY :ASNI OVIER, NUR YASMIN JAKARTA GLOBE TUE, APRIL 7, 2020 Posters warning people not to enter a quarantine area in Hitu Lama village, Ambon, Central Maluku. (Photo courtesy of […]
Doctors, medical students entertain people at quarantine centre by singing
By Phu Ei Ei Nwe Mizzima Sat, Apr 4, 2020 People under facility quarantine listen to the music from their balconies. Photo credit to Thein Htein Doctors and medical students […]
Keep Calm and Puff Away: Indonesian Smokers Unfazed by Coronavirus
BY :NUR YASMIN JAKARTA GLOBE FRI, APRIL 3, 2020 A worker rolling cigarettes in a factory in Munjung Agung, a village in Tegal, Central Java. (Antara Photo/Oky Lukmansyah) JAKARTA – […]
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