Coronavirus

An Afghan health worker administers polio drops to a child during a four-day anti-polio vaccination campaign in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 15 March 2023. Photo: EPA
News
26 April 2023
UN launches major push for child vaccination amid Covid
Mask-wearing tourists wait for a train at Seoul Station in Seoul, South Korea, 21 February 2020. Photo: EPA
News
22 February 2020
New virus cases soar in S.Korea and Chinese...
Two more people died from the new coronavirus in Iran, infections nearly doubled in South...
A Cambodian animal keeper carries a male pangolin at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center in Takeo province, Cambodia. Photo: EPA
News
22 February 2020
WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING IN ETHNIC STATES Mongla the...
If we are looking to find the culprits behind Myanmar’s wildlife trafficking trade, then...
A Myanmar woman sells postcards to Chinese tourists at the Maha Bandoola park in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
Business
22 February 2020
Coronavirus causes fall of Chinese tourists...
Yangon Region government ethnic Karen Affairs Minister Naw Pan Thinzar Myo said that...
An aerial photo made with a drone shows a ship loaded with containers docked at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, California, USA. Photo: EPA
Business
21 February 2020
US economy solid, but virus could hit supplies:...
The US economy is starting the year in a strong position but the virus outbreak in China...
MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Thursday. Photo: ANI
News
21 February 2020
8 Indians aboard cruise ship in Japan infected...
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said that in all 138 Indians including 132...
Photo: EPA
News
21 February 2020
Myanmar conduit for wildlife trade with China as...
China’s deadly illicit trade in wildlife has been thrown into stark relief as Beijing...
The WHO has praised China for taking drastic measures to contain the virus (AFP Photo)
News
19 February 2020
WHO urges calm as China virus death toll reaches...
The death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak surged to 2,000 on Wednesday, as Chinese...
A handout photo from Fresh News shows passengers, who disembark from the Westerdam cruise ship in Sihanoukville, sitting on a bus for a visit of the capital Phnom Penh on February 17, 2020. Photo: AFP
News
18 February 2020
Cruise passengers scatter, take Cambodia bus...
A scramble intensified Monday to trace passengers from a US cruise liner allowed to...
Across Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, tourist takings have plummeted as Chinese travellers find themselves subject to a host of travel restrictions (AFP Photo / Mladen ANTONOV)
News
17 February 2020
Southeast Asia feels the burn as virus keeps...
Elephant parks unvisited, curios at markets unsold as tuk-tuks sit idle: Southeast Asia...
People queue outside a pharmacy as they won the lottery to buy protective masks, in Guangzhou, China, 13 February 2020. Photo: EPA
Business
16 February 2020
Myanmar, ASEAN countries to suffer negative...
The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), a regional macroeconomic surveillance...
People wearing protective facemasks queue for food in Shanghai (AFP Photo/NOEL CELIS)
News
15 February 2020
China virus death toll surges past 1,500, new...
The death toll from China's new coronavirus epidemic jumped past 1,500 on Saturday but...
An elderly man wearing a face mask has his temperature checked before entering a community hospital in Shanghai (AFP / NOEL CELIS)
News
14 February 2020
Virus death toll soars as China changes counting...
China's official death toll from the new coronavirus spiked dramatically on Thursday...

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