After leaving formally European Union or Brexit, The United Kingdom will be a more open and welcoming country for Indonesia. That was told by the UK ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste Owen Jenkins on Friday (31/1/2020). The UK plans in place to attract more Indonesian students to study there and the possibility of a future cooperation in palm oil. …

Aside from Indonesian students in Wuhan city, China, there are also migrant workers that until now still in that country. The Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Denpasar, Bali, has said that there are still at least 37 migrant workers in China, where the fast-spreading coronavirus has killed at least 213 in the mainland. “Thirty-seven …

The Public Health Ministry yesterday confirmed Thailand’s first case of person-to-person transmission of the novel coronavirus, as the government starting preparing to repatriate 161 Thai nationals from China next week. Dr Sukhum Kanchanapimai, permanent secretary for the Public Health Ministry, said the virus was contracted by a local taxi driver who had never traveled to China. He was one of …

The Criminal Court has set a date to hear a case in which a police superintendent accuses former immigration chief Surachate “Big Joke” Hakparn of pressing false charges against him. Pol Col Krissanapong alleged that Pol Lt Gen Surachate filed a false charge of abusing his authority against him in the Criminal Court on July 12, 2011. He said he …

BUKIT MERTAJAM –  Defence Minister Mohamad Sabu said that the government is ready to send the Malaysian Armed Forces aircraft to China to rescue the Malaysians living in Wuhan, in the wake of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak. According to Sabu, if Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail required their assistance to bring home the …

KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said that the government is in talks with Beijing in bringing back Malaysians who are currently in Wuhan and Hubei province. A total of 78 Malaysians are said to be currently stranded in the Hubei province. They are currently restricted on leaving Wuhan as of the moment. “They cannot leave Wuhan (as …

Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez cautioned retailers of face masks and disinfectants against manipulating the novel coronavirus scare and rising prices as customers flock to shops in the midst of the virus threat. Following Department of Health (DOH) confirmation that a Chinese woman was testing positive for the novel coronavirus, people began flocking pharmacies to buy face masks and disinfectants, causing …

President Rodrigo Duterte has placed a ban on tourists from China’s Hubei province and from other Chinese areas affected by the novel coronavirus (nCoV) Panelo released the statement a day after the Health Department (DOH) announced the country’s first nCoV event— a 38-year-old woman from Wuhan City, China. Wuhan is a town in province Hubei. Less than a day after …

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has said that he will ask the government to consider scrapping visas-on-arrival for Chinese travellers in a bid to curb the spread of the deadly Wuhan coronavirus. Mr Anutin said the government is ready to send an aircraft to bring Thais in Wuhan back home immediately if and when it is given the green light …

Updated situation in China which its numbers have jumped to over 9,600, with 213 deaths, local health authorities said on Friday, after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global public health emergency overnight. China’s National Health Commission said the number of infections rose by around 1,980 on Thursday from the previous day, with the death toll rising by …