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Asia’s factories grind forward amid Lunar New Year disruptions
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/03/2021
» Manufacturing engines across Asia ground ahead last month, with most continuing to expand during the volatile Lunar New Year holiday period.
Asean ministers plan Myanmar talks Tuesday
Published on 26/02/2021
» Asean foreign ministers are preparing to hold a special meeting on Tuesday to discuss the political crisis in Myanmar, Asean diplomatic sources said on Friday.
Myanmar police raid protest district as World Bank halts some payments
Reuters, Published on 26/02/2021
» Myanmar police launched a crackdown overnight in a Yangon district after breaking up a protest to oppose a military appointed local official, as the World Bank halted payments to projects in the country that were made after the Feb 1 coup.
Coup risks making Myanmar 'uninvestible'
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/02/2021
» The coup in Myanmar, coupled with the country’s stalled financial-market opening, means global funds have little choice but to avoid the nation, money managers say.
If poor countries go unvaccinated, rich ones will pay -study
New York Times, Published on 25/01/2021
» In monopolising the supply of vaccines against Covid-19, wealthy nations are threatening more than a humanitarian catastrophe: The resulting economic devastation will hit affluent countries nearly as hard as those in the developing world.
'Strangled by debt': Covid deepens Cambodia's loan crisis
Reuters, Published on 15/11/2020
» Trapped under a mountain of crippling debt, Cambodian farmer Roeurn Reth fears she will have to sell her land to repay microfinance loans that have ballooned due to pandemic-spurred job losses in her family.
Indonesian footballers pay coronavirus penalty
AFP, Published on 10/11/2020
» Hit by a coronavirus-sparked match freeze and huge pay cuts, Indonesia's out-of-work footballers have been forced to take up menial jobs like selling street food or working as security guards, with little end in sight.
Myanmar races to build field hospital
Reuters, Published on 16/09/2020
» YANGON: Myanmar authorities are racing to build a field hospital in the commercial capital of Yangon to cope with a surge of coronavirus infections that doctors fear threatens to overwhelm the country's fragile health system.
Indonesia river flooded with medical waste from Covid-19
Reuters, Published on 01/09/2020
» TANGERANG, Indonesia: For the residents along Indonesia's Cisadane River, the coronavirus has brought not just deadly disease, but also a deluge of medical waste: a constant stream of syringes, face masks and hazmat suits floating by.
US, Israeli officials take 'historic' first commercial flight to UAE
AFP, Published on 31/08/2020
» TEL-AVIV: A US-Israeli delegation including White House advisor Jared Kushner took off Monday on a historic first direct commercial flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi to mark the normalisation of ties between the Jewish state and the UAE.