Malaysia – Rescuers in northern Myanmar claimed that the verified death toll from a landslide at an illegal jade mine had grown to six, but that the search effort had been called off since dozens of others were still missing and assumed dead. Thousands of people die each year while working in the lucrative but poorly controlled jade trade, in …

Three survivors of COVID-19 donated blood to Philippine General Hospital for an experimental procedure to support patients with serious coronavirus symptoms. Seafarer Ian Ceasar Frias and nurses Kai Soriano and Galey Arranz went through the apheresis blood donation process, where convalescent plasma was collected from donors, at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine’s Paz Mendoza Hall in Manila. …

The Enhanced Community Quarantine made the local food business Aling Kika’s Food Products to stopped selling its famous rice cakes, but surprisingly it continues to make its popular bibingka. The rice cakes are for people in Cainta who helped to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the campaign and in relief efforts for those affected by widespread work stoppages and …