People holding umbrellas as they cross the road during rainfall in Yangon. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
24 August 2020
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $250 million loan to help the Government...
Medical workers wearing personnel wearing PPE (Personal protective equipment) walk towards the isolation ward of a hospital in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 24 August 2020. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
24 August 2020
Myanmar reported 13 more locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Monday morning, bringing...
Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (L) exchanges signed documents with Laos Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith (R) during a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos, 23 August 2020. Photo: EPA
24 August 2020
Japan and Laos agreed Sunday to allow expatriates to resume traveling as early as...
Orderlies (in blue) and a relative push a handcart carrying the body of a person who died from coronavirus to a furnace at the Nigambodh Ghat crematorium in New Delhi (Photo: AFP)
24 August 2020
India's confirmed coronavirus cases crossed the three million mark Sunday with nearly 70,...
Rakhine people wear protective face masks as they as they walk at Sittwe's market, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 20 August 2020. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
24 August 2020
Myanmar reported six more locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the...
Muslim people go about daily life at the Thet Kel Pyin internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State. Photo: EPA
24 August 2020
Rohingya in Myanmar's conflict-wracked Rakhine state expressed fears Sunday of a...
A street in Jongno, one of the busiest districts in Seoul, is mostly empty as high-risk facilities, including karaoke rooms, clubs and PC cafes, were ordered to shut down for two weeks amid a spike in coronavirus cases in the country in Seoul, South Korea, 19 August 2020. Photo: EPA
23 August 2020
South Korea has announced it will ramp up coronavirus restrictions across the country...
Volunteer medical personnel put on their personal protection equipment (PPE) at a Healthserve clinic in Singapore, 18 August 2020. Photo: EPA
23 August 2020
The number of deaths from the new coronavirus has surpassed 800,000 around the world,...
Rakhine people wear protective face masks as they travel at downtown Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 20 August 2020. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
23 August 2020
A Kyauk Phyu district administrator has said that people who come from Sittwe to Kyauk...
Myanmar women wearing protective face masks stand near a poster promoting health and education about SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus at a bus stop in front of the Yangon City Hall, in Yangon, Myanmar, 16 August 2020. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
23 August 2020
A spokesperson for the Department of Medical Research said a new coronavirus strain which...
A close-up image showing hundred euro notes. Photo: EPA
22 August 2020
The euro, which hit two-year highs against the dollar this week, fell Friday as data...
Rakhine people wear protective face masks as they travel at downtown Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 20 August 2020. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
22 August 2020
Local transmission of COVID-19 has been found in Rakhine State since August 16 and the...

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