Bangladesh on Sunday announced a relief package worth about $1.7 billion to help farmers struggling because of restrictions imposed to stem the spread of the coronavirus, with neighbouring India …
Pakistan summons Indian official to protest at cross-border shelling
Pakistan on Monday summoned an Indian official to protest over cross-border shelling from its neighbour that it said had killed a child and wounded four civilians. India and Pakistan have accused each …
Pakistan ‘sleepwalking’ into virus catastrophe, warns opposition
Pakistan risks “sleep walking” into a coronavirus catastrophe where death tolls reach levels seen in the West and perilously under-resourced hospitals are pushed to the brink, an opposition leader …
Child sex abuse in Pakistan’s religious schools is endemic
Earlier this year, a cleric at the religious school he faithfully attended in the southern Punjab town of Pakpattan took him into a washroom and tried to rape him. Muhimman’s aunt, Shazia, who wanted …
Indonesia trying to avert recession due to virus outbreak: finance minister
JAKARTA (Reuters) -n authorities are making efforts to prevent an economic recession due to the coronavirus outbreak, but their worst case scenario is for contraction in …
Bank Indonesia Keeps Rates Steady
Indonesia’s central bank has kept its benchmark interest rate steady Tuesday as it seeks to safeguard the rupiah amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Indonesia reports its biggest daily jump in coronavirus deaths
Indonesia on Tuesday reported its biggest daily jump ineaths with 60 new fatalities, taking the total to 459, health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said. Yurianto confirmed 282 new coronavirus …
‘Ghosts’ try to spook people off streets during coronavirus in Indonesia
Ghosts” wrapped in white sheets are roaming the streets of a neighborhood in Indonesia’s central Java province trying to spook people into staying home during the coronavirus outbreak.
COVID-19 Report: Indonesia declares outbreak a national disaster; Malaysia sets price controls
Hong Kong opera star, Myanmar rock icon among new coronavirus patients. This article, COVID-19 Report: Indonesia declares outbreak a national disaster; Malaysia sets price controls, originally …
India lockdown sends grey-market booze prices soaring
Alcohol prices in India’s grey market have more than quadrupled and online searches for how to make homemade alcohol have soared during India’s nationwide coronavirus lockdown, with bars and liquor …