Category: Regional
Asia Today: Australian hot spot sees new virus cases decline
Australia’s worst-hit Victoria state recorded fewer coronavirus cases on Monday, but a health official has warned the disease spread might yet worsen. The 177 new cases [...]
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Virus-free UK pilot, symbol of Vietnam’s pandemic success, to return home
Vietnam’s most seriously ill COVID-19 patient, a British pilot who at one point seemed close to death, left hospital on Saturday on his way home after a dramatic [...]
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Tiger, pangolin farming in Burma risks ‘boosting demand’
Conservationists have warned a sudden change in Myanmar’s law allowing the commercial farming of tigers, pangolins and other endangered species risks further fuelling [...]
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WHO advance team on way to China to set up probe into virus origin
An advance team from the World Health Organization (WHO) has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus which sparked the pandemic, [...]
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Central Asia struggles with resurgent coronavirus after reopening
A man in his 60s, distraught and tearful, cries “I don’t know what to do now” as medical staff in protective gear carry the body of his dead wife out of a [...]
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Vietnam’s outlook is ‘one of the brightest’ in Asia, UBS says
Vietnam is among the “brightest” spots in Asia despite the challenge of trying to contain the coronavirus pandemic and its economy is poised to rebound, a UBS [...]
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Burma attitudes to sex undressed in textbook row
Unchaperoned teens, gay partners and sex workersfictional characters in a new curriculum for Myanmar schools are causing a real-world tussle over morality in a deeply [...]
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US aircraft carriers in South China Sea make needed show of force against Beijing
In the wake of the Chinese outcry over the two US Navy aircraft carriers now cruising the South China Sea, it’s easy to assume the carrier deployments are yet another [...]
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Number of illegal Vietnamese immigrants to Taiwan increases
The number of Vietnamese attempting to illegally enter Taiwan has increased this year, with the Coast Guard having intercepted boats attempting to smuggle them in on two [...]
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Cambodia’s tourist hotspot bans dog meat trade
The Cambodian tourist town of Siem Reap has banned the dog meat trade, a victory for animal rights campaigners who describe the area as the “lynchpin” of an [...]
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Vietnam reports 14 new COVID-19 cases, all imported
Vietnam’s health ministry on Monday reported 14 new coronavirus infections, all among Vietnamese citizens held in quarantine upon their arrival from overseas. The [...]
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British pilot to leave Vietnam for home after virus recovery
A British pilot who was Vietnam’s most critical COVID-19 patient is virus free and has recovered enough to make the long flight home next Sunday, doctors said. A group [...]
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Vietnam jails Facebook user for 8 years over ‘anti-state’ posts
A court in Vietnam on Tuesday sentenced a man to eight years in prison after finding him guilty of uploading anti-state posts on his Facebook account, the security ministry [...]
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Dreams of Burma’s ‘unwashed’ jade miners buried by disaster
Five Yay Ma Hsayor ‘unwashed’ as the jade miners of northern Myanmar are knownarrived early Thursday at the pit to scrape out a living on a scraggy hillside, [...]
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Looters target Burma temple treasures in tourist slump
A squad of armed police patrol Myanmar’s sacred site of Bagan under the cover of night, taking on plunderers snatching relics from temples forsaken by tourists due to [...]
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