JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Indonesia’s Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto is in hot water because of a recent comment about having deployed thousands of medical interns to the front lines of the nation’s Covid-19 treatment efforts. “We still have 3,500 interns and 800 Nusantara Sehat (Archipelago Health programme) workers – In addition […]
BANGKOK • Openly challenging the monarchy of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, thousands of protesters marched in Bangkok yesterday to present demands that include a call for reforms to curb his powers. Protesters have grown bolder during two months of demonstrations against Thailand’s palace and military-dominated establishment, breaking a longstanding taboo on criticising the monarchy – […]
KOTA KINABALU • In 1970, Sabah’s population of 636,431 accounted for 6.1 per cent of Malaysia’s 10.4 million. By 2010, the proportion had nearly doubled to 11.3 per cent, with the state’s population nearly quintupling in that time to 3.1 million. In four decades, the nation’s population grew by just 165 per cent and the […]
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – A three-storey residential building on the outskirts of Mumbai collapsed early on Monday (Sept 21), killing at least eight people, local reports said. A further 20-25 people were reported to be trapped in the building in Bhiwandi, Mr Satya Pradhan, the chief of the National Disaster Response Force, said in a […]
SINGAPORE – A robot that carries out nasal swabbing to diagnose Covid-19 has been developed by clinicians who say the automated procedure is safe, faster and more comfortable compared to manual swab tests. Although other countries have developed similar robots, the made-in-Singapore bot allows patients to fully control the swab process so that they are […]
It is not doom and gloom on the jobs front for some sectors in Singapore, eight months into the Covid-19 pandemic. The security, logistics and cleaning sectors are, in fact, facing manpower shortages. In the security industry, for instance, demand for officers in some locations such as dormitories has pushed up salaries quite a bit. […]
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – Following China’s delay of Hong Kong’s legislative elections, opposition lawmakers face a defining choice: Keep playing by Beijing’s rules? Or quit and join the radicals in the streets? The 22 opposition members of the city’s elected Legislative Council are under intense pressure from their supporters to resign en masse before the […]
SINGAPORE – Four new imported Covid-19 cases were announced by the Health Ministry on Sunday (Sept 20). One traveller each arrived from Iran and Germany and two cases came from the Philippines. They and were placed on stay-home notices upon arrival in Singapore. The four were among the 18 new coronavirus cases confirmed on Sunday. […]
FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective face masks shop at Porta Palazzo market in Turin after it reopened with social distancing rules as Italy begins a staged end to a nationwide lockdown, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Turin, Italy, May 4, 2020. REUTERS/Massimo PincaROME (Reuters) – Italy expects its coronavirus-hit economy to grow […]
SINGAPORE – More equal sharing of caregiving responsibilities, better education on issues of sex and consent, and weeding out banter that objectifies women – these are some of the issues affecting women which advocates want to see considered in a comprehensive review that was announced on Sunday (Sept 20). Legislating some of these suggestions will […]