Southeast Asia has been at war with human traffickers for a long time now and most reports have shown that this war is a difficult one to win. In 2015, mass graves of people believed to be Rohingya who were victims of human trafficking were discovered in the jungles north of Wang Kelian in an area called Wang Berma.

Sexist posters by the Women and Family Development Ministry (KPWKM) in Malaysia have gone viral and made international headlines. As the country is currently in a partial lockdown, also known as Movement Control Order (MCO) since 18 March, the KPWKM has released a few posters with tips on how to avoid marriage conflicts during the MCO which is set to end on 14 April.

Emerging technologies are being deployed across Asia to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Earlier this year, a Kosovo-born football player, Liridon Krasniqi who plays for Malaysian football club Johor Darul Ta'zim (JDT) was naturalised and given a Malaysian citizenship. Many observers criticised the decision for granting a fast-tracked citizenship to the popular sportsman as thousands of other stateless people in Malaysia are still undocumented.

In 10 days, the global number of confirmed COVID-19 cases more than doubled from about 153,000 on 14 March to over 372,000 on 24 March.

According to the Ministry of Manpower in Singapore (MOM), there are an estimated 300,000 Malaysians who commute to the island state on a daily basis for either work or to study.

The COVID-19 pandemic started in the city of Wuhan in China. However, the once epicentre of the virus has closed all of its public facility-turned temporary hospitals on 10 March as the number of infected patients continues to decrease. According to local media in the country, life in China is gradually returning to normal since the lockdown.

A ban on Malaysians leaving the country, imposed to halt the spread of the coronavirus, will deal a heavy blow to neighbouring Singapore, which relies on huge numbers of workers who commute from next door.Around 300,000 people usually cross the border every day to wealthier Singapore - about eight percent of the tiny city-state's labour force - to work in areas ranging from public transport to electronics manufacturing.But that flow ground to a halt Wednesday as Malaysia began enforcing

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the prevalence of childhood obesity has increased at an alarming rate globally. In 2016, the number of overweight children under the age of five was estimated to be over 41 million.Southeast Asia has seen an upward trend in childhood obesity during the last 10 to 15 years. An estimated 6.6 million children under five years are currently overweight in the region.

This year has been eventful and it’s still just the middle of March. The world greeted 2020 with paranoia and caution as the COVID-19 novel coronavirus spread around the globe. Malaysia is no exception to the outbreak with over 100 people tested positive for the virus as of 12 March. In late February, the country was in turmoil as former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad resigned from his position and an alleged ‘backdoor government’ was formed.