Thailand’s health ministry sounded the alarm over Bangkok’s dire lack of hospital beds and isolation facilities on Thursday as COVID-19 cases and deaths soared to a...
Cambodia imposed fresh coronavirus restrictions Thursday for eight provinces bordering Thailand, clamping down on the movement of millions of residents to curb the spread of the...
Malaysia’s embattled leader was accused of treason and urged to quit Thursday after the king denounced his crisis-hit government for misleading parliament, a rare public rebuke...
A deadly combination of racism, xenophobia, and gender-based discrimination means victims of human trafficking are not getting the protection they deserve, and traffickers are able to...
As of Thursday noon (29 July), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed an additional 133 cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore. This brings the...
A pro-democracy Hong Kong radio host went on trial Thursday for sedition in the first use of the colonial-era law since the city’s handover to China...
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — The King did not assent to the government’s purported revocation of Emergency ordinances, said the National Palace on Thursday (29 July). Comptroller...
Employers and employees have to step up their workplace safety and health efforts because injuries and fatalities can impede business recovery from COVID-19 pandemic, said Manpower...
Nikkei Asia’s recent opinion piece entitled “The institutional failures behind Singapore’s latest COVID outbreak” was “full of inaccuracies”, said senior director from the Ministry of Home...
Compulsory swab tests will be done on all students and staff of Punggol Primary School on Thursday (29 July) and Friday after a few COVID-19 cases...
On Friday (30 July), EZ-Link Pte Ltd, pioneer of contactless payments in Singapore, will be launching the new ‘EZ-Link Motoring Card‘ – a dedicated contactless stored...
Tokyo Olympics organisers dismissed any link to rising coronavirus cases in Japan on Thursday after reporting 24 infections among Games participants, the highest yet. At least...
Travel plans are on the rise in Singapore, with 44 per cent of Singaporean adults planning to travel over the coming three months, up from 20...
While delivering a speech to address the Supplementary Budget in Parliament on Tuesday (27 July), The Workers’ Party (WP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Aljunied GRC...
Singapore’s paddler Yu Mengyu faced off with China’s world No.1 Chen Meng in the Tokyo Olympics women’s singles semi-finals on Thursday morning (29 July), but couldn’t...