ASEAN

Food Banks Offer Hunger Relief Amid Virus Crisis

This past year COVID-19 has placed Southeast Asia on the brink of a socio-economic crisis, with 218 million informal workers’ livelihoods at risk and as many as 38 million people pushed into poverty. The crisis, coupled with typhoons that devastated countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines, risks rolling back a generation of progress in the fight against hunger. More than 64 million people in Southeast Asia were undernourished in 2019.

23 January 2021
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Southeast Asia’s Lost Girls

An estimated eight million children are reported missing every year. However, it’s not just the young that have disappeared, but adults too. Unfortunately, when it comes to missing people, sometimes they are gone without a trace with no successful lead.According to the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM), over 800 children and teenagers have been reported missing from 2014 to 2019.

23 January 2021
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Hot Off The Press

These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Stay informed with The ASEAN Post. Singapore may tighten Covid-19 rules ahead of Chinese New Year, will also prioritise vaccine roll-outThe battle against Covid-19 this year will be fought on two fronts: speeding up the nationwide vaccination programme, and keeping the slate of safeguards finel

22 January 2021
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Hot Off The Press

These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Stay informed with The ASEAN Post. New Covid-19 cluster in S'pore, community cases up from 4 to 18 in past weekThe number of new cases in the community has increased from four in the week before to 18 cases in the past week, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in a statement on Wednesday nig

21 January 2021
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Hot Off The Press

These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Stay informed with The ASEAN Post.Covid-19 cluster concerns: See a doctor if you have a cough or cold, experts urgeIf you have a cough, sore throat or runny nose, you should not think it is just the common flu. It could mean you have Covid-19, medical experts said on Tuesday (Jan 19).

20 January 2021
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Hot Off The Press

These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Stay informed with The ASEAN Post. Covid-19 vaccination centre at Changi T4 can inoculate 4,000 a dayWhen Raffles Medical Group received the call to set up a vaccination centre at Changi Airport Terminal 4, it took just five days to get the whole operation up and running.

19 January 2021
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Hot Off The Press

These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Stay informed with The ASEAN Post. All travellers to Singapore need to take Covid-19 PCR test on arrival from Jan 25Singapore has tightened its border restrictions in response to new virus variants and the worsening global pandemic situation.

18 January 2021
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Plastic Pollution: We Need To Act Now

The Great Pacific garbage patch is a collection of plastic and floating trash with two enormous masses of ever-growing garbage. The patch consists of finger-sized bits of plastic – often microscopic particles, chemical sludge, wood pulp, and other debris trapped by the northern circulating currents of the Pacific Ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre. The plastic concentration is estimated to be 100 kilograms per square kilometre.

17 January 2021
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Death By Fake Alcohol

In recent months, we have increasingly heard stories of counterfeit or sub-quality face masks, medicines and sanitisers during the pandemic. Fake goods are indeed putting lives in danger.

16 January 2021
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Hot Off The Press

These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Stay informed with The ASEAN Post. British man under SHN who left hotel room without mask to meet fiancée among 3 people to be chargedOne man chose to spend time with his fiancée, another wandered around Geylang and went to work.

15 January 2021
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