Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha called on Rayong residents to resume their normal lives while Deputy Minister of Public Health Sathit Pitutecha stated that no local infections had occurred in the province after an infected Egyptian soldier lived there without quarantine. Wednesday’s premier flew by helicopter to Rayong from Bangkok to conduct studies of disease and Covid-19 assessments for the general …

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak and three ministers working for him have resigned from the cabinet and paved the way for the reorganization of the economic ministerial team of the government. The three ministers are Minister of Finance Uttama Savanayana, Minister of Energy Sontirat Sontijirawong and Higher Education , Technology, Research and Innovation Minister Suvit Maesincee. Kobsak Pootrakul, the Prime …

Mass demonstrate around parliament building, DPR: HIP Bill and Omnibus Bill have not been ratified at plenary session Indonesian Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Dasco Ahmad ensured that the Pancasila Ideology Guidelines (HIP) Bill and the Omnibus Bill on Job Creation would not be ratified in the Plenary Session of Closing Period IV of 2019-2020, at the Parliament …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has long called on the public to always implement the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic health protocol. However, some of the people during the pandemic are still ignoring the health protocol against the Covid-19 transmission. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo will immediately issue a presidential instruction regarding sanctions for people violating health protocols. “I will soon pass the …

China’s top Hong Kong representative condemned what it called U.S. gross intervention in the Asian financial center, calling the bid by U.S. President Donald Trump to remove the city’s special status as ‘gangster logic and bullying.’ The Hong Kong Liaison Office said in a strongly worded statement released late Wednesday (July 15) that the sanctions would not have a significant …

MANILA – The Metro Manila Council (MMC) has recommended the extension of the General Community Quarantine (GCQ) in the National Capital Region (NCR) to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) amid the increasing confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country. According to Presidential spokesman Harry Roque, President Duterte approved the recommendation of the University …

MANILA – The Department of Education (DepEd) has recommended to President the possibility of allowing limited face-to-face classes in areas classified under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ). According to Department of Education Secretary Leonor Briones, the DepEd’s stand is that the law provides school opening shall not start later than the last day of August. Briones plans to open the …

PETALING JAYA – Foreign Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said today that the country need to fix bilateral ties with several countries because the relationship were ‘very tested’ to say the least. The Foreign Affairs Minister said that according to Auditor-General’s Report 2018, China’s military has trespassed Sarawak and Sabah waters almost 90 times between 2016 to 2019. As …

KUALA LUMPUR – CIMB Bank Bhd and CIMB Islamic Bank Bhd (CIMB) has announced two new digital solutions for customers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to improve accesibility to the company’s offering. The two online solutions includes an online-to-branch application process for individual banking customers and the Biz Financing Portal for small and medium enterpises (SMEs) In a statement, …

The Indonesian Cinema Entrepreneurs Association (GPBSI) asked the government not to collect entertainment tax for the next year to support their efforts to rise amid the Covid-19 pandemic. “It can be agreed in all regions, that in the 1-year entertainment tax should not be collected first. In my opinion, it is like that. That is what we hope for,” GPBSI …