HONG KONG – Hong Kong has pushed for vaccinating all healthy adults quickly. As pressure mounted on officials to restart the economy, the five-week-old islandwide vaccination programme that was rolled out to priority groups first – the sick and the elderly – was quickly expanded to those aged 30 to 59 to attain herd immunity […]
It is a critical issue as the world rushes to achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus. How does the largest continent in the world immunise 4.5 billion people in the shortest time possible? The Straits Times bureaus find out in this special report. Grappling with myriad challenges on path towards Covid-19 immunity Vaccinating the world […]
SINGAPORE – Singapore Airlines (SIA) flights from Singapore have been barred from landing in Hong Kong for two weeks. The move comes after a passenger who arrived there on Wednesday (March 31) was confirmed to have Covid-19 while three other passengers on the flight failed to comply with local health regulations. It also comes just […]
COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH (AFP) – A fire in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh – the second in less than two weeks – killed at least three people on Friday (April 2), the police said. The blaze started in a market store at the Kutupalong camp, home to more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees, in the […]
MELBOURNE (REUTERS) – Australia called on Friday (April 1) for Myanmar’s ruling military to immediately release an Australian economic adviser to the deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained for two months. Dr Sean Turnell, a professor of economics at Macquarie University in Sydney who has been advising Ms Suu Kyi for […]
MELBOURNE (REUTERS) – Australia called on Friday (April 1) for Myanmar’s ruling military to immediately release an Australian economic adviser to the deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained for two months. Dr Sean Turnell, a professor of economics at Macquarie University in Sydney who has been advising Ms Suu Kyi for […]
SINGAPORE – There were 43 new coronavirus cases confirmed as at Friday noon (April 2) – all imported and placed on stay-home notices or isolated on arrival. There were no community cases or infections from migrant worker dormitories. More details will be announced on Friday night. The new cases brought Singapore’s total number of infections […]
MAE SAM LAEP, THAILAND (AFP) – A sleepy village in remote northern Thailand became a hub of activity this week when it received refugees fleeing Myanmar – a sight that brought back vivid memories for its ethnic Karen residents. Hkara, 70, said she had spent roughly 30 years crisscrossing the Salween river, which marks the […]
FILE PHOTO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, U.S., September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File PhotoWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Africa needs carefully-calibrated domestic policies and stronger support from the international community to recover from the COVID-19 crisis and return to its path of stronger growth, the head of the […]
FILE PHOTO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, U.S., September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File PhotoWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Africa needs carefully-calibrated domestic policies and stronger support from the international community to recover from the COVID-19 crisis and return to its path of stronger growth, the head of the […]