“I never believed the aviation industry could be hit this hard,” said Tony Fernandes, co-founder of AirAsia Group in an interview with news agency AFP back in July. Nearly all industries around the world have felt the pinch from the coronavirus pandemic – some more than others.
2020 is proving to be a challenging year. Livelihoods, businesses and government operations have all been affected by the coronavirus pandemic which has claimed over one million lives worldwide.
Imagine going on a road trip with your family or a small group of friends. The drive to the intended destination perhaps would take you about six to eight hours to reach, so you take multiple stops at gas stations to rest, or maybe to take a nap. Everything seems harmless, until all the passengers, including you, the driver… fall asleep in the engine-running car.Just last month, a similar tragedy happened in Malaysia that shocked locals.
At least 18 people were killed and more than 40 injured in Thailand on Sunday when a freight train crashed into a bus taking passengers to a religious ceremony, officials said.The morning collision, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of the capital, Bangkok, toppled the bus and sheared off part of its roof. More than 40 passengers were rushed to nearby medical facilities for treatment, said provincial hospital director Sombat Chutimanukul."Four are in critical condition and ei
A report titled, “Policies to Support Investment Requirements of Indonesia’s Food and Agriculture During 2020-2045” found that 22 million people in Indonesia suffered from chronic hunger between the years 2016 and 2018. The report, published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) with support from Indonesia’s National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) also acknowledged that there was strong growth in Indonesia’s agricultu
Elderly residents and small children clung to inflatable tyres as soldiers and police used rope lines to get them to safety from rising floodwater on Saturday in Cambodia's western province of Battambang.Hundreds of families in three Cambodian provinces – Pursat, Battambang and Pailin – have been forced to evacuate amid extreme rainfall ahead of the arrival of a tropical depression across the Mekong region."A two-year-old child and 57-year-old man have drowned in the flood," Se
Cambodia’s premier Hun Sen, launched his own anti-drugs campaign in 2017, inspired by the controversial war on drugs waged by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. According to the Cambodian government, the campaign aims to reduce drug use and the related harm it causes. The campaign also includes arresting people who use drugs as part of its strategy.Using far less deadly tactics than in the Philippines, the crackdown was still rather aggressive in the kingdom.
The number of COVID-19 infections is fast inching towards the 37 million mark worldwide. Over one million lives have been lost due to the deadly disease, including the elderly, the young and healthy, and even babies.
Locked up all day in a tiny, squalid hut with barely enough space to lie down, Rauf is a prisoner to his mental health issues and carers whose only way of coping is to shut him away.While not unique to Indonesia, padlocks, shackles and chains are frequently used to cover for a lack of proper mental health provision in the world's fourth most-populous nation.But the coronavirus epidemic has exacerbated the problem, forcing many people back into chains after they had been freed following a
Social media has become an essential communication tool for most people.
Tigers once roamed wild and free across the jungles of the world. As apex predators, life was good.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women in China and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995.
