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The rise and fall of US chicken feet in China
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 10/08/2020
» The chicken trade between the United States and China has always been a fruitful but complicated one. Chinese consumers prefer dark meat and chicken feet (or paws, in industry parlance) with US consumers opting for white meat.
The Covid-19 weakest links
Asia focus, Yik-Ying Teo, Published on 04/05/2020
» No health system in the world has the surge capacity to cope with an influx of tens of thousands of patients in a matter of weeks, as has been the case with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Preparedness is the cure
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 13/04/2020
» First, a little bit of good news amid all the despair and depression: In Italy, where the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 is the highest in the world, a 104-year-old woman has recovered after falling sick on March 17. Amazingly, Ada Zanusso also survived the 1918 Spanish flu. Even more amazingly, she lived in a nursing home where 20 other residents died of the virus.
When confusion goes viral
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 03/02/2020
» Movie lovers like me have been drawn irresistibly to Dark Waters, the 2019 American legal thriller that has won positive reviews from critics and accolades for lead actor Mark Ruffalo.
Don't blame the rain
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 10/09/2018
» After days of being battered by heavy rain in Bangkok, anyone who isn't sniffling or coughing probably considers themselves lucky. After all, didn't your mother always tell you, "Don't stay in the rain or you'll catch a cold" … "go dry your hair and change your clothes or you'll catch a cold"? Mine certainly did.
Immunising Asean
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 19/03/2018
» Southeast Asia has become a hot spot for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, which has led to stepped-up international efforts to strengthen national and regional pandemic preparedness capacity.
Better safe than sorry
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 19/03/2018
» Human capacity for dealing with infectious diseases continues to improve, thanks to the lessons learned from recent outbreaks such as Sars and Ebola, and a growing global commitment toward improving public health. But factors such as population growth, urbanisation, natural disasters and climate change continue to leave many countries at higher risk from infectious diseases and pandemic outbreaks.
How free is Hong Kong?
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 12/02/2018
» Acouple of incidents in Hong Kong caught my attention last week. The first was a report that the worsening influenza outbreak in the territory had prompted authorities to shut all kindergartens and primary schools just days before the scheduled Lunar New Year holidays. The flu has been especially severe this winter, having caused 111 deaths since January, and health experts warn it may not yet have peaked.