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A year like no other
Asia focus, Published on 28/12/2020
» In a world under siege from a relentless virus, Asia's resilience was tested to the utmost. Asia Focus staff look back at key events
Las Vegas casinos reopen after months of virus lockdown
AFP, Published on 05/06/2020
» LAS VEGAS: Las Vegas casinos opened their doors on Thursday, 11 weeks after they were closed due to coronavirus, with downtown roulette wheels and slot machines whirring to life minutes after midnight.
High price of progress
Asia focus, Nithi Kaveevivitchai, Published on 23/03/2020
» Over the past two decades, Asia's growth story has caught the world's attention as the region has become bigger, richer and more connected. But this remarkable development has come with some unwelcome by-products for many people.
Apple Closes All Its Stores Outside China Over Coronavirus
Business, Published on 16/03/2020
» Apple Inc. will close all its retail stores outside Greater China, a dramatic example of how companies are clamping down on business activity to slow the spread of the coronavirus to their employees and customers.
Slowing the suicide epidemic
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 16/09/2019
» When I was younger, whenever I heard about someone committing suicide, I asked myself how anyone could choose that path, leaving the world and their loved ones behind? To me, it doesn't make anything better. As I grow older, the way I see things has changed, and I have learned to better understand how and why some people suffer. As our understanding grows, perhaps we can do more to help before things get out of hand.
Not just Bali: Indonesia to develop more tourism sites
Associated Press, Published on 13/08/2019
» YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia: Hundreds of tourists, many of them young Westerners, sat on grey stone steps atop the world's largest Buddhist temple, occasionally checking mobile phones or whispering to each other as they waited for daylight.
End game for malaria
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 17/06/2019
» Malaria is one of the deadliest infectious diseases known to humankind, killing around 400,000 people every year. And while great strides have been made in recent years in prevention and treatment, especially in Asia, eliminating the disease entirely remains a major challenge.
Family first for vulnerable children, no matter what
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 30/07/2018
» Should the state be responsible for taking care of children in vulnerable condition, orphaned or not? Many believe it has a duty in some cases, such as children who have been exposed to religious extremism and terrorism or even involved by militant parents in terrorist attacks.
Clinging to hope
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 21/05/2018
» They have survived many challenges, from a genocide that killed nearly 3 million of their people, the ultimate fight for freedom from Pakistan, a series of coups since independence in 1971, and the assassination of the Father of the Nation, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. But the people of Bangladesh still find it in their hearts to help those even less fortunate than themselves, in this case hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees.
Ignore the Rohingya at our peril
Asia focus, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 20/11/2017
» It was not just human rights groups that were let down last week when Asean leaders invoked their principle of non-interference in each other's internal affairs and skirted around the ongoing mass exodus of persecuted Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar.