KUALA LUMPUR – An 18-year-old boy in Kuala Lumpur who tested positive for Covid-19 in January and told to self-quarantine at home ended up spending his days recuperating in his parents’ car. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old boy who contracted the virus last month was removed from his KL house as his parents refused to let him quarantine in his room. […]
KUALA LUMPUR – Entrepreneur Paul Tan, whose eponymous website is Malaysia’s top motoring portal, has been using wifi on his mobile phone since a lockdown was imposed in the country at the start of June. But this is not because he has not been paying his bill. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading […]
PUTRAJAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A nationwide crackdown against non-compliance with the standard operating procedures (SOP) imposed in Malaysia to curb the coronavirus will be launched soon, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin has announced. Codenamed Ops Patuh, it will see personnel from various enforcement agencies as well as assets mobilised to ensure that […]
JAKARTA (AFP) – Separatist rebels were holding four civilians hostage in the jungles of Indonesia’s breakaway Papua region after they killed several construction workers in an ambush, authorities said on Friday (June 25). Tensions have been mounting between Indonesian security forces and guerrillas fighting a decades-long insurgency to win independence from the South-east Asian nation. […]
PHNOM PENH (AFP) – A critically endangered giant barking deer has been spotted in Cambodia for the first time, in a boost for the country’s wildlife preservation efforts, officials said on Friday (June 25). The giant muntjac – known for its long antlers – was captured on a hidden camera in April in northeast Cambodia’s […]
HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Apple Daily cub reporter Yau Ting-leung could not sleep much. Tired, he lay in bed on Wednesday (June 23) morning checking the news. The 23-year-old had been in his dream job at the pro-democracy tabloid for less than a year, but now things were unravelling. Six days after a police raid […]
KARACHI (AFP) – Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was facing a growing backlash on Thursday (June 24) after he blamed victims of rape for wearing “very few clothes”. Former playboy cricketer Khan told television show Axios that how women dress affects men’s behaviour, outraging activists in the deeply conservative Islamic country. “If a woman is […]
SINGAPORE – A 35-year-old man who works as a porter at Changi General Hospital tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Thursday night (June 24). He is one of two unlinked cases that were announced. The man is asymptomatic, and was detected when he was tested for Covid-19 […]
TOKYO — When Masako Akagi’s husband killed himself in the spring of 2018, he left behind a note that put her on a collision course with Japan’s most powerful politicians. Under pressure from the government, he wrote, he had altered documents that linked the wife of then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to a real estate deal […]
KUALA LUMPUR – Johor’s ruler has expressed disappointment with the glacial pace of the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out in his state, as the opposition claimsthat four vaccination centres have shut down temporarily after running out of vaccines amid a nationwide supply crunch. “I feel the vaccination rate is still too slow and needs to be accelerated […]