BANGKOK (BLOOMBERG) – Thailand plans to inoculate the majority of the adult population in Bangkok in the coming months to quell a flareup in virus infections that’s made the capital city the epicentre of the nation’s biggest Covid-19 outbreak. More than 7 million residents will be able to get their shots at hospitals, malls, gymnasiums […]
SINGAPORE – A new director-general will helm the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) from Aug 2. The Ministry of Transport (MOT) said on Wednesday (May 12) that Mr Han Kok Juan, who is currently deputy secretary at the ministry and senior deputy director-general at CAAS, will take on the role. He will be appointed […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – On April 19, European Union (EU) foreign ministers launched the EU Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. This strategy marks a major step in Europe’s steadily increasing engagement in a region that is the economic and strategic center of gravity of today’s world. The Indo-Pacific represents not only […]
JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) – Sinovac Biotech Ltd’s vaccine is wiping out Covid-19 among health workers in Indonesia, an encouraging sign for the dozens of developing countries reliant on the controversial Chinese shot, which performed far worse than western vaccines in clinical trials. Indonesia tracked 25,374 health workers in capital city Jakarta for 28 days after they […]
SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health and the multi-ministry task force tackling Covid-19 have been working together with hospitals here to support healthcare workers, including Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) staff, who have been shunned by Singaporeans, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said on Tuesday (May 11). Responding in Parliament to a question from Dr […]
SINGAPORE – The Republic has seen 26 cases of Covid-19 reinfection as Monday (May 10), Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said in a ministerial statement in Parliament on Tuesday. Such reinfections are known to be possible in both overseas and local cases, he noted, but it is still unclear why they occur. The minister said investigations […]
SINGAPORE – Up to one million cervical cancer screening vouchers will be distributed over 12 months from July, in a campaign led by The Royal Commonwealth Society of Singapore. The I AM Campaign was launched on Tuesday (May 11) at the inaugural meeting of the Singapore Alliance for Active Action Against Human Papillomavirus (A4HPV). Under […]
(Reuters) – Aerospace company Boeing Co was explicit, naming who among its dozen directors were women, Asian and African American. Agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland Co offered a more general accounting, saying its board was 55% diverse. Illinois officials have seen the range of responses from local companies – many with international profiles – to […]
BEIJING – China’s demographic crisis could be closer at hand and more serious than previously thought, judging by the latest census results. The mainland population registered its lowest growth rate on record in the past decade, increasing by 5.38 per cent and bringing the total population to 1.412 billion in 2020, results from the once-in-a-decade […]
Good evening! Catch up on some of the main headlines on Tuesday, May 11. S’pore on knife-edge, Covid-19 cases can go either way over next few weeks: Lawrence Wong “We have a chance of getting things under control by the end of the month,” he said in Parliament. READ MORE HERE Police arrest man accused of using […]