Thailand’s Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec) has announced classes will be split and students will go to school on alternate days when the new term starts on July 1. Reducing the amount of school time they will have for learning. Obec says the decision was made at meeting this week, the Bangkok Post reported. Senior officials met to assess the …

Thailand’s narcotics suppression police have seized a huge amount of drugs and arrested a total 17 people including a Nigerian drug kingpin. In four separate operations police seized 100kg of heroin and 500 kilograms of crystal meth. The arrests were announced yesterday at a press conference at Thailand’s Narcotics Suppression Bureau. In the first cased called “Black Sasimi”, police rounded …

As part of its pledge to assist them through this difficult period, local stock exchange operator Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd has released a transparency guideline on Covid-19 relevant impacts and investments for listed firms. Bursa Malaysia said, based on its observation of recent disclosures made by listed issuers related to the effect of Covid-19, it felt that there was scope …

City-owned market operator PD Pasar Jaya has conducted swab tests at 19 Markets in Jakarta. As a result, there were 52 market sellers who were positive for the coronavirus (Covid-19) in six markets in Jakarta. Director of PD Pasar Jaya, Arief Nasrudin said, of the 19 markets as many as 1,418 sellers underwent swab tests. After the test results came …

The Chairperson of the General Election Commission (KPU) Arief Budiman said the KPU was not prepared to implement electronic voting or e-voting in the 2020 regional head election. “For the current election we have not prepared if forced to be prepared, for now, it is not ready, so I don’t want to assume,” said KPU Chairman Arief Budiman in an …

MANILA – The Department of Tourism (DOT) is eyeing on implementing the so-called “travel bubble” between Covid-free areas in the country and abroad. Department of Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo Puyat said that these corridors would allow the resumption of tourism in Philippine destinations with zero cases of Covid-19 to foreign tourists from infection-free nations. Puyat added that it’s hard to …

The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the world to a new trend – Adoption of a digital culture. With the government implementing lockdown measures and urging the people to stay at home, People are now working at home, buying groceries online and paying the bills using the digital. ASEAN member states are no exception. The region has become a blooming market …

Thailand’s health department on Wednesday reported four new patients with COVID-19 infections, all quarantined Thai returnees. Consequently raising Thailand’s COVID-19 total to 3,125, but no more deaths, over the previous 24 hours. Dr. Taweesilp Visanuyothin, a health department spokesman said one new COVID-19 case was a man aged 44. He had worked at a multi-national camp in Madagascar. He returned on …

There’s another leak reportedly from the Bersatu Supreme Council meeting on February 23 included talks on the removal of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as the prime minister at the time for a realignment of the governing parties. The clip was posted on social media, and a single senior Bersatu member once again controlled the discussions. Within it, the Bersatu chief …

A criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand has sentenced two Thai restaurant owners to a whopping 1,446 years in prison each for defrauding the public.They were also ordered to repay about 2.5 million baht to their victims. According to Thai PBS, Apichart (Jome) Paronjullaka and Prapassorn Bovornbancha, co-owners of Laemgate seafood restaurant, launched an online sales promotion. Offering their customers e-coupons for cheap …