Malaysia – Employees Provident Fund (EPF) participants will be allowed to make a special withdrawal of RM10,000 from their accounts beginning today, allowing individuals affected by the Covid-19 pandemic to clear their outstanding obligations. The majority of Umno members who favor the withdrawal claim that it would also assist to improve people’s lives and invigorate the local economy, particularly for …

South Korea – Large number of BTS fans flocked to Seoul on Thursday for the K-Pop singers’ first public performance in the country since the outbreak, despite Covid laws prohibiting them from dancing or singing along. The septet’s three-concert series, dubbed as “Permission to Dance on Stage – Seoul,” begins Thursday evening at the capital’s Olympic Stadium. BTS has gone …

Malaysia – The proposal to reopen the nation in phases safely will be a turning point for all businesses, particularly sports, which has been impacted since the Covid-19 pandemic struck in March 2020. While applauding the announcement of the “Transition to Endemic” Phase, which will begin on April 1, Malaysian Football League (MFL) president Datuk Ab Ghani Hassan is certain …

Philippines – The call center laborers would need to get back to the workplace one month from now after the public authority denied the solicitation of many organizations to permit their representatives to telecommute any more to give their business more opportunity to recuperate and in the midst of rising vehicle costs. This implies Information Technology-Business Process Management (IT-BPM) organizations …

Indonesia – The Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin affirmed that the Indonesian government is illustrating a methodology to change the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic to an endemic stage. They likewise got heading from the president, with input from the planning priest in regards to the procedure (to move) from pandemic to endemic. We have arranged the convention. This is …

Malaysia – On February 20, DAP announced it supports the National Recovery Council’s (NRC) recommendation to restore international borders on March 1 in order to assist the country’s economic recovery and create new employment possibilities. Lim Guan Eng, the party’s secretary-general, said that the party is prepared to set aside political differences in order to satisfy the NRC’s demand, which …

ASEAN – Once the Omicron transmission wave has peaked and begun to subside, Singaporeans should expect further loosening of Covid-19 limits, according to Health Minister Ong Ye Kung. He mentioned this in a written response to a query from Mountbatten Member of Parliament (MP) Lim Biow Chuan, who questioned what the goal conditions are before the government considers relaxing the …

Malaysia – Because of the Covid-19 vaccines that were released on social media, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin has launched a defamation suit against Datuk Lokman Noor Adam and Mohd Rasyiq Mohd Alwi, better known as Ustaz Abu Syafiq. On January 25, Khairy, 46, filed two separate lawsuits in the High Court here, via Messrs. Rashid Zulkifli, naming Lokman, 49, and Mohd …

China – Daily Covid-19 cases at the Beijing Winter Olympics, showed a rise in the number of infections among athletes and team officials. The csesa surged to 19 from two a day earlier, while organizers warned that additional cases would be reported in the following days. There were a total of 36 people infected with the virus, including athletes and officials, according to the …

South Korea – Today, the daily total number of new coronavirus cases in South Korea surpassed 8,000 for the first time, as the highly infectious Omicron strain spreads swiftly despite the recent expansion of tight social-distancing measures to reduce infection. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) recorded 8,571 cases yesterday, surpassing the previous high of 7,848 in mid-December. The …