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SINGAPORE – Customers who plans on visiting shopping malls and supermarkets are urged to bring along their National Registration Identification Cards (NRICs) as part of their contact tracing regime. The public may also be required to enter the NRIC numbers via an online national visitor registration system. Enterprise Singapore said that more malls and supermarkets already implemented enhanced measures such …

MANILA – The Instagram live conversation between John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo that went viral was, in fact, revealed as an experimental movie. Titled “Love Team,” the so called “Unconfined Cinema” were produced and directed by Antoinette Jadaone. A love story told entirely in Instagram with the idea of “exploring what else cinema could be, freeing our stories to …

Talking about the market capitalization, the FBM KLCI closed 8.1 points or 0.59 percent at 1.380.3 after a wide-ranging purchase as investors balanced factors like higher crude oil prices and Malaysia’s corporate financial results against the COVID-19 pandemic effect on the global economy. At a glance, Malaysian shares seemed to take center stage in international trade minister Datuk Seri Mohamed …

Flag carrier Garuda Indonesia has grounded the majority of its fleet as part of the large-scale social restriction (PSBB) to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. And, the number of air travels is expected to continue to drop in May 2020, especially right through the normally busy Idul Fitri holiday at the end of the month. “We will have salary cuts and …

Two Chinese nationals have been nabbed for selling contraband including adult sex toys and hemp oil worth millions of baht. The pair were arrested at a commercial building in Bangkok’s Bang Khunthian district. Thailand’s Action Taskforce for Information Technology Crime Suppression (Tactics) yesterday named the suspects as Mr. Li Mingfan and Mr.Zhang Chao Wei. Police seized large quantities of masks; hand sanitizer …

Tourism ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to integrate efforts to revive tourism. Countries in the region will work together after the end of the (COVID-19) coronavirus. Thailand’s Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said ASEAN ministers including him reached the agreement in a special video conference. In the video conference they discuss tourism situations in Southeast …

A new born to a covid-19 positive mother was also diagnosed with the disease, said director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. “18 days after being born, the baby was also found to be Covid-19 positive.” The director-general of health has not yet to confirm whether he baby was infected before or after birth.v “We are not sure but the …

MANILA –  A total of 2,103 examinees passed the 2019 Bar, 27.36% higher than 2018, Bar Chairman Estela Perlas Bernabe confirmed on Wed (April 29). The result was posted on the high court’s official website due to the government enforced lockdown on several areas in Luzon. University of Santo Tomas-Legazpi’s Mae Diane Azores topped the Bar with 91.049% followed by …

SINGAPORE – Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan reassured his Chinese counterpart that Singapore will continue to look after the well-being of the migrant workers, including the necessary medical care. Dr Balakrishnan spoke to Minister for Foreign Affairs Wang Yi over the phone yesterday and they expressed appreciation for the mutual support and effective collaboration between Singapore and China during this pandemic. …

PUTRAJAYA – Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today that Malaysia has not had Covid-19 patients discharged from hospitals have experienced re-infection of the disease. On his daily Covid-19 press conference, he said that of the total of 4,032 patients were discharged from the hospital since the disease were first identified. “So far, no reinfection. We do have maybe …