AT 660FT WIDE, the waterway was so big I assumed it was a river. It wasn’t. This was just the 3.4-mile long moat around the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia. Our genial tuk-tuk driver Mr Chantol …
Cambodia detects no new COVID-19 cases for 6 days straight, recovery rate at 84 per cent
PHNOM PENH, April 18 — Cambodia had found no new cases of COVID-19 infections in the last six days, while five more patients had recovered, raising the number of patients cured in the kingdom to 103, …
Cambodia’s state of emergency law endangers human rights, warns UN expert [EN/KM]
“Emergency measures must be necessary and proportionate to the crisis they seek to address,” said Rhona Smith, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia. “The broadly worded …
Kurdish-led region in northeast Syria reports first case
Reuters The Kurdish-led administration in Syria’s northeast reported the area’s first case of coronavirus It said samples had been tested in Damascus earlier this month. The regional administration …
The coronavirus could kill 100,000 people in Syria’s embattled Idlib region, sped on by cramped, unhygienic camps and a lack of testing
You want us to wash our hands? Some people can’t wash their kids for a week. They are living outdoors,” Fadi Mesaher told The New York Times.
Syria virus death traced to Kurdish-run northeast region
An email from the World Health Organization obtained by The Associated Press says a 53-year-old man in Syria’s Kurdish-administered northeast died earlier this month from COVID-19, the disease caused …
Malaysia urged to allow Rohingya refugee boats to land
Human Rights Watch said Saturday that the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t justify Malaysia’s turning away of overloaded boats carrying Muslim Rohingya and risking …
Singapore records 942 new coronavirus cases, taking its total past Malaysia
The island nation now has 5,992 cases, compared with 5,251 in its neighbour across the causeway I, 86 per cent of its confirmed infections are among migrant workers living in dormitories Singapore on …
COVID-19: Uzbekistan Bans Bicycles Except For ‘Essential’ Work; Serbia Donates Test Kits To Kosovo
Religious leaders in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan announced similar fatwas days earlier. Tajikistan and Turkmenistan have not officially declared any coronavirus cases. But experts are …
Waiting out a pandemic that feels like war: Insights from an Iraq War veteran
I haven’t felt like this in a long time. Seventeen years actually. The unbearable uncertainty of it all. While we all cope with the challenges and isolation associated with COVID-19, I’m thinking of …