South East Asia

The palm oil industry is one of Indonesias major foreign exchange earners, contributing 13.5 percent to total non-oil and gas exports worth US$22.3 billion....

The retail price of petrol sharply decreased as of 3pm on Sunday, marking the sixth consecutive reduction since the beginning of this year....

A humble school in Yogyakarta offers lessons on macapat and the Javanese script....

Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germanys Hesse state, has committed suicide apparently after becoming deeply worried over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus....

CEBU CITY, Philippines — While Cebu province maintains that only limited individuals will be allowed to enter its jurisdiction from Cebu City, the highly urbanized cities of Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu have agreed to honor each other's exemption...

Fearing the respiratory illness could somehow spread from the corpses to nearby population centers, Iraqi religious authorities, tribes and townspeople have sent the bodies of COVID-19 victims back to hospital morgues, where they are piling up....

The app, which is undergoing a stress test, will be available for download at the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store upon launch....

SINGAPORE - Singtel's board of directors will take a 10 per cent fee cut for the upcoming financial year in...

Transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) will donate P1 billion to help government fight the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) health crisis that has been overwhelming the country in the past weeks....

The order will last for at least for one month, according to Phuket Governor Pakkapong Taweepat. Vehicles and vessels providing essential goods and services are exempted....

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned health facilities and medical professionals against prescribing the drug combination of Procaine and Dexamethasone with Vitamin B called "Prodex B" for treatment and prevention of the coronavirus disea...

UBS Group intends to pay its 2019 dividend, the Swiss bank said on Monday, despite guidance from markets supervisor FINMA, the Swiss government ......

HONG KONG (XINHUA) - Three men were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from 10 days to three months on Monday (March 30) after breaching the compulsory quarantine regulation in Hong Kong amid the coronavirus pandemic, the first such cases since the Covid-1...

RIYADH (REUTERS) - Saudi Arabia will finance treatment for anyone infected with the coronavirus in the country, the health minister said on Monday (March 30), while the agriculture ministry took steps to boost wheat and livestock supplies amid global fear...

LONDON, March 30 — Oil prices plunged today as the number of novel coronavirus cases worldwide surged past 700,000, reinforcing worries about the impact of the pandemic on the global economy. Stock markets reacted differently to the prospect of......

A Van Gogh painting was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum in the Netherlands overnight, the museum said Monday. The museum has been closed due to the coronavirus outbreak....

AMSTERDAM: A Van Gogh painting was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum in the Netherlands overnight, the museum said on Monday. The museum has been closed due to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak....

MYANMAR, Yangon: The likelihood of undetected COVID-19 cases imported by a recent wave of returning Myanmar workers from Thailand at least ......

BERLIN (REUTERS) - Germany hopes to launch a smartphone app within weeks to help trace coronavirus infections, after a broad political consensus emerged that adopting an approach pioneered by Singapore can be effective without invading people's privac...

MARCH 30 — The set of rules for the second phase of the MCO announced by the Defence Minister raises a number of very serious questions. We must not forget the first and foremost purpose of the MCO. The MCO is a necessary policy whose first,......

KUALA LUMPUR: National coaches and players have been encouraged to step out of their comfort zone and to keep up with the times....

LONDON (REUTERS) - Britain's temporary hospitals are seeking volunteers from airlines, calling on cabin crew members who are currently grounded to use their first-aid skills and calm manner to help get the new Nightingale hospitals up and running.. Re...

ILOILO CITY Isang lumang mortar shell ang nahukay ng isang 70 anyos na lalaki sa kanilang bakuran sa Barangay Q. Abeto sa Mandurriao, Iloilo City Lunes ng hapon....

SINGAPORE - Mr Nazrul Syahmi, 20, was in Slovenia on a backpacking trip when the government there restricted all air traffic on March 17 as the coronavirus outbreak worsened in Europe.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

Labor group Defend Jobs Philippines on Monday submitted to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) a list of private companies who allegedly have yet to apply for financial assistance from the government for the benefit of their workers....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 — Grab Malaysia has listed three measures to support local businesses especially small independent establishments and hawkers beset by the Covid-19 pandemic. To this end, the multinational ride-hailing company will embark on.....

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said the national tally stood at 9,661, while the death toll rose by 6 to 158. It added that 195 more people had recovered from the virus for a total of 5,228....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 — Several companies and non-profit organisations have step forward to assist the government in the fight against Covid-19. The Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodites, in a statement today, said the Malaysian Timber.....

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Donald Trump said on Monday (March 30) he expects his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to request the lifting of US sanctions during an upcoming phone call.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

YIA will be open 24 hours a day, serving 54 flights, including 48 domestic flights — 24 departures and 24 arrivals — and six international departures to neighboring Malaysia and Singapore....

KUALA LUMPUR: Intel Malaysia is donating over RM2 Million to assist healthcare professionals in combating COVID-19 in the country....

- Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has added 80V N-channel power MOSFETs to its "U-MOS X-H series" fabricated with the ......

KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 — The disinfection operation to curb the spread of Covid-19, which was previously carried out at several high-risk areas, was today intensified with massive operations nationwide. The operation, entrusted to the Ministry of......

Chinas bereaved families have not been able to hold funerals since Feb. 1, even as the nations outbreak eases, including in Hubei where the virus erupted in December....

Harley-Davidson Inc said on Monday that investor Impala Asset Management no longer planned to nominate two candidates to its board....

Tolentino will face complaints of robbery hold-up, disobedience, illegal firearms, and breaking the curfew....

Beauty addicts around the world are increasingly keen on skincare products based on ingredients that are more commonly found in refrigerators, such as berries, seeds and seaweed....

STOCKHOLM: People spending more time cooped up in their homes to curb the spread of the new coronavirus have changed their daily soundtracks, with ......

Around 200 prisoners will be temporarily released from Northern Irish jails in a bid to stem the spread of coronavirus in the inmate population, the province's justice minister said Monday....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 — Acknowledging the lack of data faced by the government in allocating its Bantuan Prihatin Nasional (BPN) cash handouts for the M40 group, the Pakatan Harapan (PH) Secretariat has today suggested for the government to......

Futures in London fell as much as 7.6 percent to the lowest since November 2002, while New York crude briefly dipped below US$20 a barrel....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 — A total of 86 individuals were charged in court in several states across the country today for violating the movement control order (MCO) meant to curb the spread of Covid-19. The MCO, which entered its 13th day today saw......

NEW YORK, March 30 — Wall Street stocks rose early today to open what was expected to be a volatile trading week as markets weighed the economic toll of the coronavirus against emergency government spending. About 10 minutes into trading, the Dow......

SINGAPORE: The Government is ready to deploy a third stimulus package if the COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore deteriorates, Deputy Prime Minister ......

RIYADH: The Saudi-led military coalition on Monday said it carried out multiple air strikes on Yemen's rebel-held capital Sanaa in retaliation for missile strikes on Riyadh....

Boosting the disbursement of all planned public investment would help increase this year's gross domestic product (GDP) by 0.42 percentage points, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO)....

A study published in 2007 by the Clinical Microbiology Reviews of the American Society for Microbiology had early on warned of a possible disease outbreak in China due to the culture of eating exotic animals in the southern part of the country....

President Hassan Rouhani warned Sunday that the new way of life in Iran was likely to be prolonged, as its declared death toll from the novel coronavirus rose to 2,640....

KUALA LUMPUR: The RM250 billion stimulus package will roughly add to Malaysia's real gross domestic product (GDP) growth by an estimated 1.5 per cent percentage point, Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz said....

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday decisive measures by Russia had helped win it time in its battle to contain the coronavirus and to prevent an explosive growth in cases, but that it was vital authorities now used that time effectively....