Concerted effort needed to achieve all SDGs in Asia Pacific by 2030 (video)
Rising economic prosperity and poverty reduction may not tell the whole story of progress in…
Food insecurity: left starving in a foodie paradise (video)
Unsightly issues such as food insecurity and hunger have been left in shadows of Singapore’s…
Philippine banks roll-out relief to ease COVID-19 financial pain
Banks across the Philippines have begun rolling out a range of measures aimed at easing…
ADB lays out $200 million for COVID-19 supply chains
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has stumped up $200 million for companies that make and…
Duterte doubles-down on fortress Manila with Luzon lockdown
In the wake of an unprecedented lockdown of Metro Manila, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte doubled-down…
Economic carnage across Asean increases as COVID-19 effect intensifies
Asean governments and central banks are this week fighting against economic free fall as the…
COVID-19: UN chief calls for calm, warns of global recession
The upheaval caused by the coronavirus — COVID-19 — is all around us. And I…
COVID-19: Into the abyss as global recession looms (video)
The declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) represents nothing…
Continuing Vietnam’s anti-graft campaign beyond Nguyen Phu Trong
A high-profile feature of current Vietnamese politics is the anti-corruption drive led by Nguyen Phu…
COVID-19 in Asean: British woman is Cambodia’s third confirmed case
A 65-year-old “British” woman is Cambodia’s third case of COVID-19. Cambodia’s Minister of Health, Mam…
Is the South China Sea at a crossroads?
The South China Sea remains a focal concern within the international community, grabbing headlines and…
Westerdam passenger from Cambodia confirmed as Malaysia’s 22nd COVID-19 case (video) *update 3
An 83-year-old American woman who was among 145 people to disembark the cruise ship MS…
Singapore musician calls for virus fight while Chinese greats sing their love to Hubei (video)
With the number of confirmed 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections and deaths globally rising by…
Deaths skyrocket while Beijing delays coronavirus hot zone evacuations (video + photo gallery)
Thailand and several other Asean member states continue waiting for approval from Beijing to launch…
Starving Thai students plead for help as Wuhan coronavirus runs wild (video) *updated
A Thai student studying at Wuhan University, China, has posted a desperate plea for help…
Philippine FM fumes: “I want an eye for an eye, 2, 3 Kuwaiti lives for a Filipino life”
The Philippine government yesterday (Jan 15) began enforcing a ban on the deployment of Filipino…