At least 40,000 people in China have now been infected by the virus, believed to have emerged late last year in Hubei province’s capital Wuhan. And although the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said there are tentative signs the epidemic is establishing in China, the agency’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that the number of cases recorded overseas could …

After call by the Indonesian Embassy, majority of Indonesians in mainland China had returned to Indonesia. These people were advised to stay in their hometowns while waiting for the return of normalcy as the number of people confirmed to have recovered from the new coronavirus infection has climbed to 2,651. “Majority of our citizens have returned home. The Chinese authorities …

The capital city relocation to East Kalimantan was confirmed will have been completed in 2024. That was optimistically said by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. “As we have planned, we will relocate (the capital city),” Jokowi said at Mount Ainslie in Canberra, Australia on Sunday (9/2). With height 843-meter in Canberra, Mount Ainslie has become part of Canberra Nature Park. From …

In an effort to prevent the spread of the area’s 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), visitors who had been to China recently were banned from entering establishments in the city of Lila in Bohol. Municipal order of Major Arturo Piollo II mandated establishments to refuse travelers coming from mainland China and its administrative regions entry. This total ban on the entry …

KUALA LUMPUR – According to Malaysian ambassador to Thailand Datuk Jojie Samuel, there were no Malaysian casualties were reported in the shooting rampage that killed 26 and injured 57 in Nakhon Ratchasima. “So far, no Malaysians (casualties),” He added The suspect, a 32-year-old soldier Jakrapanth Thomma, was finally shot dead by Thai security forces hours after he went on a …

A Philippine Airlines special rescue flight bound for Xiamen is scheduled to leave Manila on Monday to bring back Filipinos stranded in China amid the novel coronavirus (nCoV) scare. The said flight is scheduled to leave Terminal 2 of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) past 7 a.m. The said flight is scheduled to leave Terminal 2 of Ninoy Aquino International …

Four drugs suspects were apprehended by the police on Friday.  This apprehended was conducted by the police that a raid on an apartment in Surabaya, East Java. The place was allegedly used to produce synthetic marijuana by those four suspects. The raid was conducted by the Jakarta Police in coordination with the East Java Police. That was stated by Head …

A local health official said on Friday that Indonesian authorities have put five Chinese nationals under a two-week quarantine in North Sumatra for coronavirus scare. These foreign workers whereabouts in Indonesia to work in a power plant project in Kabanjahe, Tanah Karo district. They are four men and a woman.Three of them arrived early at the Kualanamu International Airport in …

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana claimed on Saturday that President Rodrigo Duterte has not formally ordered a notice of termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) to be sent to the US, contrary to a previous announcement by Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo. “This is fake news. Sec. Locsin has not yet[ seen] the document,” Lorenzana told reporters in a chat group, …

The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) of the United Arab Emirates on Saturday confirmed two new cases of the country’s novel coronavirus (nCoV) infections-a Filipino and a Chinese resident. Advertising According to the Emirates News Agency Article, the MoHAP announced that the total number of nCoV cases in the country had been increased to seven. These were classified for …