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By Agence France-Presse • Jun 08, 2021
Once a model for its successful handling of the pandemic, Vietnam is now struggling to contain a new wave of Covid-19, resorting to public donations to buy vaccines
By M. Jegathesan/AFP • Jun 01, 2021
As countries across Southeast Asia struggle with a resurgence in Covid-19 cases driven by infectious variants, Malaysia, among the worst hit, imposed a nationwide lockdown on Tuesday June 1
By Thong Sariputta • Jun 01, 2021
While healthcare workers, the elderly and sick are high priority for vaccination, so too should be migrant workers. Among Southeast Asia's most mobile and vulnerable populations, prioritising them is not just a matter of principle, but a vital pandemic control measure
By Francis E. Hutchinson • Jun 01, 2021
Due to the federal government’s slow vaccination rate in Malaysia, some state governments have stepped into the breach to inoculate their populations. Their collective experience thus far has been somewhat patchy
The international airport of Vietnam's capital will suspend inbound flights from abroad beginning on June 1, the country's aviation body announced, as it grapples with a fresh wave of coronavirus outbreaks
By Agence France-Presse • May 31, 2021
Myanmar’s February 1 coup not only overturned a fragile political order, it also risked worsening a precarious public health situation in a country battling to contain Covid-19. Today, the situation remains desperately unclear for health professionals in and out the country
By Andrew Haffner • May 25, 2021
With a fast ageing population, the Vietnamese government is placing the country's economic future on women as it urges them to marry by 30 and bear two children by 35 – a move which women's rights activists have condemned as reinforcing outdated gender roles
By Govi Snell • May 14, 2021
Najib Razak, Malaysia's former prime minister, is facing a fine for breaking Covid-19 laws while out a restaurant.
By Agence France-Presse • May 07, 2021
The Mekong region countries were until recently heralded as exceptional cases in controlling the spread of Covid-19. But recent weeks have seen cases explode across Cambodia, Thailand and Laos, leaving Vietnam on high alert and observers asking what's gone so wrong
By Alastair McCready, Wanpen Pajai and Govi Snell • May 07, 2021
Cambodia had avoided the worst health effects of the pandemic until recent months. Now, with Phnom Penh under an ever-stricter lockdown as cases spiral, it's the capital's thousands of informal, hand-to-mouth workers who are suffering as they are locked inside
By Andrew Haffner and and Borin Sopheavuthtey • Apr 26, 2021
New Covid restrictions came into force in Thailand on April 26 in an attempt to halt a spiralling outbreak that saw deaths hit a record single-day high over the weekend
By Agence France-Presse • Apr 26, 2021
Singapore has quarantined about 1,200 migrant workers from a dormitory after coronavirus cases were discovered among men thought to have already recovered from infections
By Agence France-Presse • Apr 23, 2021