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India plans airlift for 400,000 stranded abroad
Reuters, Published on 06/05/2020
» NEW DELHI: India will begin flights on Thursday to bring home some 400,000 citizens stranded overseas by travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, prompting some worries over the risk that imported infections could fuel contagion in the country.
THAI to press ahead with B11bn maintenance facility
Reuters, Published on 27/04/2020
» Thai Airways International will press on with a project to build a 11-billion maintenance facility east of Bangkok after partner Airbus dropped out due to the coronavirus outbreak, a senior official said on Monday.
US denies hijacking masks in Bangkok
Reuters, Published on 06/04/2020
» The United States had no knowledge of a shipment of face masks bound for Germany that officials in Berlin have accused it of diverting from an airport in Bangkok, a spokeswoman for the US embassy in Thailand said.
China scrambles to plug border gaps
Reuters, Published on 03/04/2020
» BEIJING/SINGAPORE: Regions along China's porous borders with southeast Asia are working hard to improve surveillance and curb illegal immigration, authorities said, as thousands flood into a country seen as a safe haven in the global war against the coronavirus pandemic.
Vietnam quarantines tens of thousands in camps
Reuters, Published on 26/03/2020
» HANOI: Vietnam has sent tens of thousands of people to quarantine camps as waves of overseas citizens return home to escape a coronavirus pandemic spreading in Europe and the United States.
February tourist arrivals slump 42.8% y-o-y
Reuters, Published on 23/03/2020
» Tourist arrivals in Thailand sank 42.78% in February from a year earlier after a 2.46% rise in the previous month, due to the coronavirus outbreak, tourism ministry data showed on Monday.
Taiwan 'electronic fence' leads wave of monitoring
Reuters, Published on 20/03/2020
» Governments around the world are combining technology and human efforts to enforce quarantines that require people who have been exposed to the virus to stay in their homes, but Taiwan's system is believed to be the first to use mobile phone tracking for that purpose.
Thousands of Muslim pilgrims ignore virus risk to gather in Indonesia
Reuters, Published on 18/03/2020
» JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR: Thousands of Muslim pilgrims from across Asia gathered in Indonesia on Wednesday, despite fears that their meeting could fuel the spread of a coronavirus, just two weeks after a similar event in Malaysia caused more than 500 infections.
Imported infections top new local cases in China for 4th day
Reuters, Published on 17/03/2020
» BEIJING/SHANGHAI: China reported on Tuesday another rise in confirmed coronavirus cases as infections from abroad made it increasingly hard for authorities to reduce the overall number of new infections to zero.
Thailand begins disinfecting packages
Reuters, Published on 05/03/2020
» Postal services began disinfecting all packages received from overseas on Thursday to counter the spread of the coronavirus, although the World Health Organisation has said it is safe to receive post from badly affected countries, like China.