Strict safety measures are in place, but more than 200 schools have been forced to close just days after they re-opened. ( read original story ...)
Thailand to further ease restrictions, shorten curfew hours
Thailand will next week shorten curfew hours and ease restrictions on more businesses, the government said on Friday, in response to its low numbers of locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus Lockdown Dims Thailand’s Once-Thriving Sex Trade
In a good week, Nupchan could earn up to $230 — three times the minimum wage — from the throng of tourists that would sweep in and out of Chiang Mai, a city in the hills of northern Thailand famed ... ( read original story ...)
How Tensions Between the U.S. and Iran Ended Up Strengthening ISIS
The U.S. pronouncement that it no longer considers Hong Kong to be independent from China paves the way for future sanctions, which could hurt the very people the United States means to help. As U.S. ( read original story ...)
Regime change in Iran shouldn’t be a taboo
Regime change in Iran is one of the biggest taboos in U.S. foreign policy. Bring it up and you will be scorned as a warmonger, a fomenter of chaos. Yet we have encouraged and welcomed the collapse of ... ( read original story ...)
Iran reports most new cases in nearly two months
Iran on Friday announced its highest number of new coronavirus infections in nearly two months and warned the Middle East's deadliest outbreak was worsening in some regions. The government has largely ... ( read original story ...)
Iran says it will continue nuclear work despite US sanctions
Iran says its experts will continue nuclear development activities despite sanctions imposed on their fellow scientists by the U.S. earlier this week ... ( read original story ...)
German Infection Rate Falls; Turkey Eases Measures: Virus Update
The death toll in India surpassed the number of lives lost in China, while cases in Brazil hit another daily record as hot spots shift to developing countries ill-equipped to contain its spread. ( read original story ...)
Relief, disappointment as Philippines restarts some transport services
Philippine taxi dispatcher Meliza Venal heaved a sigh of relief when she learned that hundreds of her company's drivers can finally go back to work after being stuck in their homes for 11 weeks. The ... ( read original story ...)
Japan backs nearly a third of $6.6 billion loans to Nissan: sources
The Japanese government has guaranteed almost a third of the 7l3 billion yen ($6.65 billion) in loans Nissan Motor Co has secured from its main lenders to weather the COVID-19 pandemic, ... ( read original story ...)