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Asia virus latest: Bangkok hospitals protect babies with face shields
AFP, Published on 14/04/2020
» SINGAPORE: Here are the latest developments in Asia related to the novel coronavirus pandemic:
What do we know about coronavirus?
AFP, Published on 07/04/2020
» PARIS: Just three months ago, few people even knew the word "coronavirus". But as the disease continues to spread across the globe, infecting and killing thousands, and causing millions to live in self-isolation, it has become a watchword for the daily life of billions.
Scared but desperate, Thai sex workers forced to the street
AFP, Published on 05/04/2020
» A shutdown to contain the coronavirus has killed Thailand's party scene and forced sex workers like Pim out of bars and onto desolate streets. She's scared but desperately needs customers to pay her rent.
Passengers on stricken cruise ship to leave Australia via Phuket
AFP, Published on 29/03/2020
» Hundreds of cruise ship passengers were due to board flights for Germany via Phuket on Sunday, after spending days stranded at sea off the West Australian coast in a stand-off with authorities.
Thousands rally in Asia for International Women's Day despite virus fears
AFP, Published on 08/03/2020
» Thousands took to the streets across Asia for International Women's Day on Sunday even as the coronavirus outbreak forced the cancellation of events in the region.
Thailand and Malaysia bar cruise ship over virus fears
AFP, Published on 08/03/2020
» Thailand and Malaysia have barred a cruise ship carrying about 2,000 people, including dozens of Italians, from docking due to fears about the new coronavirus, an official said Sunday.
Tearful Thai general says 'don't blame army' for soldier's rampage
AFP, Published on 11/02/2020
» An emotional army chief on Tuesday urged a nation in mourning over a mass shooting "not to blame the army" after a soldier gunned down at least 29 people in a rampage linked to a debt dispute with a senior officer.
Korat mall shooting survivors tracked killer via CCTV
AFP, Published on 09/02/2020
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: In a fourth floor toilet of the Terminal 21 mall shoppers jammed cubicle doors against the entrance to keep out a soldier on a shooting spree, tracing his movements through fragments of CCTV passed on by friends on the outside.
China reports 17 new cases of mystery virus
AFP, Published on 19/01/2020
» BEIJING: China reported 17 new cases of the mysterious SARS-like virus on Sunday, including three in a severe condition, heightening fears ahead of China's Lunar New Year holiday when hundreds of millions of people move around the country -- and thousands will come to Thailand.
The 97km that frustrate China's mastery of the Mekong
AFP, Published on 10/01/2020
» CHIANG KHONG: Ninety-seven kilometres of rocks in Thai waters stand between Beijing and dominance over the Mekong, a mighty river that feeds millions as it threads south from the Tibetan plateau through five countries before emptying into the South China Sea.