Southeast Asia

KUALA LUMPUR (CNA) - Recent festive celebrations in Malaysia sparked 60 COVID-19 clusters involving 3,511 cases, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. From May 13...

KUALA LUMPUR (CNA) – Malaysia’s United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) has pleaded with the king to not extend the country’s state of emergency beyond...

SINGAPORE (CNA) - The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and the Changi Airport Group (CAG) will set aside SGD15 million to help airport...

MANILA (AFP) - The Philippines is once again polio-free, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday, after a successful vaccination campaign that has raised...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Singapore will begin slowly easing a month-long partial lockdown from next week after the curbs succeeded in stemming a coronavirus outbreak,...

JAKARTA (AFP) - More than a dozen Indonesian McDonald’s outlets were temporarily shuttered yesterday over virus fears as the chain’s new BTS meal deal...

JAKARTA (XINHUA) - Indonesia’s most active volcano Mount Merapi emitted hot clouds three times as far as 1,600 metres to the southwest, the Geological...

KUALA LUMPUR (XINHUA) - Malaysia reported another 6,239 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the national total to 633,891, the Health Ministry said yesterday. Health Ministry Director-General...

AFP - The United Nation’s (UN) special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar has warned of "mass deaths" from starvation and disease in the...

KUALA LUMPUR (BERNAMA) - The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) has offered to provide logistical assistance to the Ministry of Health (MOH) to transport COVID-19...