Around 200 right-wingers from Thailand launched a campaign to counter student rally, one of which is Free Youth group and its ally, the Free People movement, is aimed at pressuring the government to dissolve Parliament, write a new charter and end threats against its critics. Protests have taken place almost daily since mid-July to demand the government’s removal, with some …

Bank Indonesia (BI) will cut the minimum down payment for automotive loan/financing specifically for the purchase of eco-friendly vehicles to zero (0) percent. This policy takes effect from October 1, 2020. Currently, the minimum down payment limit is between 5 percent and 10 percent. “Lowering the minimum down payment limit from 5 percent -10 percent to 0 percent in the …

The potential for foreign workers entering Indonesia to increase. As is known, previously there were hundreds of the arrival of foreign workers from China. The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan opened a discourse to facilitate entry permits for foreign doctors to Indonesia. Not all doctors will be brought, but specialist doctors who are not available …

Faces coated in white dust and chisels in hand, Myanmar’s marble sculptors say the hills that have given them a livelihood for decades are vanishing, as big corporations reap the benefits of the precious white rock. The deafening sound of cutting and grinding machines, punctuated by hammer and chisel banging, echoes across the hills next to the village of Sagyin, …

Schools have been informed to allow its  students to participate in protests to express their political views as an attemp to defuse growing frustrations and demands for political change. A decision confirmed by Minister of Education Nataphol Teepsuwan, followed by media reports about students from different schools flashing the three-finger greeting in front of flagpole during their morning assembly and …

A sub-committee of the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration proposed to extend the state of emergency until the end of September in order to allow for the continued compulsory quarantining of people coming from abroad. Deputy chief of the army Gen Nathapol Nakpanit, deputy chairman of the CCSA panel, says that the executive decree on public administration in emergency situations …

METRO MANILA – The government has finally eased up on the much controversial motorcycle barrier requirement for riders living in the same house. According to the Joint Task Force COVID Shield on Tuesday that the National task force for Covid-19 has approved new and more relaxed guidelines in motorcycle backriding. However, areas under GCQ will still required riders not living …

METRO MANILA – Public transportation and domestic flights resume today after Metro Manila has been shifted to general community quarantine or GCQ status. According to the Department of Transportation (DOTr) Public trains and operators from various public utility vehicles such as taxis, buses, and modern and traditional public utility jeepneys (PUJs) and UV express will resume operations to ferry the …

PETALING JAYA – The Ministry of Health said that more data is needed before the government can decide on whether to acquire vaccines being developed by Russia and China. According Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that the vaccine’s efficacy and side effects on human trials would most likely be determine on the third clinical phase. He …

PETALING JAYA – Health experts and a former Cabinet member have expressed their opinion that the current recovery movement control order (RMCO) the government is currently implementing will like be extended from its deadline on August 31 amid the rising cases of infections in the country. The health experts expressed that it is important extended the movement control to curb …