Son Heung-min has started his three-week mandatory national service, serving with the Marine Corps on the island of Jeju …
South Africa needs a post-lockdown strategy that emulates South Korea
An eminent panel of authors published an article in The Conversation asking what strategy South Africa should follow to contain the outbreak of Covid-19 following the current lockdown.
Myanmar ships 800 freed Rohingya prisoners back to Rakhine
Myanmar shipped hundreds of recently released Rohingya inmates back to the country’s restive western borderlands on Monday, after fears that its overcrowded prisons could become hotbeds for runaway …
Myanmar Says Factories Must Take COVID-19 Precautions Before They Reopen
YANGON—The Myanmar government will allow only factories that have set up preventive measure to combat COVID-19 to resume operation on April 30, according to the Ministry of Labor, Immigration and …
Myanmar: factory fates hang in the balance
YANGON – Authorities in Myanmar have warned that factories will have to shut down later this month if they’re unable to reach agreements with workers about the conditions they’d be asked to operate in …
Thousands of Myanmar Migrant Workers Return from China into Quarantine
MANDALAY—Nearly 4,000 Myanmar migrant workers who were working in China have flooded into border checkpoints in Kachin State since last Thursday, where they were transferred to government facilities …
Myanmar to receive Swiss-made COVID-19 test machine, expand testing capability this month
The health ministry is also expanding the number of labs and locations available to conduct testing. By next week, the Department of Medical Research in Yangon is expected to be able to test samples …
Thailand begins mass vaccination of horses to curb African Horse Sickness spread
Thailand began vaccinating some 4,000 horses on Monday in a bid to contain the spread, a disease that only affects horses and other equine animals. More than 200 horses in seven provinces have died …
Coronavirus lockdown boosts numbers of Thailand’s rare sea turtles
Largest number of nests of leatherbacks found in two decades as beaches emptied …
Iran Death Toll From New Coronavirus Outbreak Rises by 91 to 5,209: Health Ministry Official
The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Iran reached 5,209 on Monday with 91 deaths in the past twenty four hours, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said in a statement on state TV on …