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By Agence France-Presse • Nov 03, 2021
President Rodrigo Duterte ordered military and police to airlift Covid-19 vaccines across the country's provinces to bypass "gridlocks"
By Anton L. Delgado and Ashley Yeong • Oct 29, 2021
Researchers working in Southeast Asia focus on increasing local food diversity and nourishment as strategies to help end global hunger
By Jack Brook • Oct 28, 2021
Faced with low pay, public healthcare workers often moonlight in private practice. Critics allege corruption, but experts say dual practice plays an important role
By Govi Snell • Oct 25, 2021
As Vietnam emerges from a fourth crushing Covid-19 wave, healthcare workers reveal how they have staffed overwhelmed hospitals during long hours with insufficient pay and resources under government threats to end their careers
The fight against Covid-19 requires multiple tools applied by researchers and governments. Testing for blood antibodies plays a critical role in the management of the virus and infectious diseases
By Leong Hoe Nam and Harjit Gill • Oct 19, 2021
Ensuring maternal and child health in Southeast Asia requires a renewed focus on ending hunger and boosting nutrition
By Hartini Zainuddin • Oct 11, 2021
Ensuring maternal and child health in Southeast Asia requires a renewed focus on ending hunger and boosting nutrition
By Stéphane Vidry and Boon Yee Yeong • Oct 08, 2021
Covid-19 has contributed to demographic problems in the ageing nations of the region, requiring a response including more education and access to healthcare for women
By Andreas Jorgensen • Sep 25, 2021
Binh Duong has been hard hit by the virus. Many migrant workers find themselves struggling to survive in Vietnam’s latest outbreak of Covid-19
By Govi Snell • Sep 22, 2021
A Vietnamese man has been sentenced to five years in jail for spreading Covid-19 after he breached home quarantine rules
By Agence France-Presse • Sep 07, 2021
The Philippines to lift a stay-at-home order in the capital Manila, in a bid to rein in coronavirus cases fueled by the Delta variant and revive the economy
By Agence France-Presse • Sep 06, 2021
With lockdown restrictions getting tighter, bamboo poles, beer crates, ladders and broken chairs are some of the everyday objects forming makeshift barricades on Hanoi's streets as authorities try to slow the spread of coronavirus
By Agence France-Presse • Sep 02, 2021