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Health • STORY OF THE DAY • 5 days ago • 6 min read

The Quarantine Chronicles Entry 2.5: Quarantine Matters with Alexi Demetriadi

By Alexi Demetriadi • 5 days ago
As Globe reporter Alexi Demetriadi nears the end of his Phnom Penh quarantine experience, he touches base with Alexi Demetriadi in a no-holds-barred interview to hear about how its gone, and what travellers coming to Cambodia should know

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • 5 days ago • 7 min read
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Covid-19 [Photos] A Cambodian community’s struggle to survive virus economic fallout

By Christine Redmond • 5 days ago
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, Cambodia’s urban-poor communities have suffered severe economic shocks and fallen further into poverty. Without a secure social security safety net to fall back on, many are now relying on NGOs to keep them afloat

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • 6 days ago • 4 min read

Covid-19 Pandemic-fuelled baby boom has many Indonesians worried

By Dessy Sagita/Agence France-Presse • 6 days ago
As lockdowns cut access to contraception across Indonesia, the country's authorities are warning of a post-Covid-19 baby boom that could see at least 400,000 more births than usual by next year

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 29, 2020 • 11 min read

Covid-19 In Siem Reap, locals take to two wheels to escape virus monotony

By Brian Badzmierowski • Jun 29, 2020
As the trails of Temple Town are freed from hoards of tourists, out-of-work and exercise-starved locals are reclaiming Siem Reap's once-crowded tarmac and taking to two wheels to escape the virus monotony

Health • Jun 25, 2020 • 6 min read
The Quarantine Chronicles

Entry one: Down and Out in Sydney and Phnom Penh

Globe reporter Alexi is stuck in quarantine for two-weeks in the outskirts of Phnom Penh after his flight returned a positive case of Covid-19. In his first diary entry from isolation, he talks swabs, Russian Boulevard and Avicii
By Alexi Demetriadi

Health • Jun 02, 2020 • 3 min read
Covid-19

First Rohingya refugee dies from coronavirus in Bangladesh

A Bangladeshi health official confirmed that a 71-year-old Rohingya refugee is the first recorded person to die from Covid-19 in the country's crowded refugee camps in Cox's Bazar
By Shafiqul Alam/Agence France-Presse

Health • May 31, 2020 • 7 min read
Refugee rights

Across Indonesia, latest Covid-19 surge adds to woes of refugees in limbo

Indonesia's sizeable population of refugees – living in limbo awaiting resettlement without healthcare, employment, nutrition and social distancing – now fear what effect Covid-19 could have on their community following a confirmed case in mid-May
By JN Joniad

Health • May 28, 2020 • 12 min read
UXO victims

In Laos, survivors of US bombs rebuild their lives – and limbs

A nine-year US campaign from 1964-73 made Laos the most bombed nation on earth, contaminating millions of hectares of land with explosives. Five decades on, thousands of UXO victims, some recent and some from decades past, work to piece their lives together
By Michael Hart

Health • May 28, 2020 • 2 min read
Covid-19

Thailand enters global race for vaccine with trials on monkeys

Thailand has joined the global race to find a vaccine for Covid-19 as it has begun conducting tests on macaque monkeys this weekend, the National Primate Research Center of Thailand has announced
By Dene-Hern Chen and Anusak Konglang/AFP

Health • May 25, 2020 • 7 min read
Tales of the Pandemic

A Cambodian student’s account of the virus emerging in Wuhan

Like many, Cambodian student Soun Phannaroat didn't think much of December reports of a new virus spreading in Wuhan, the city in which she was studying. But as the weeks ticked on, the gravity of the situation became apparent, and she knew she needed to leave
By Soun Phannaroat

Health • May 25, 2020 • 10 min read
Tales of the Pandemic

Humanitarian outreach for migrants on the Thai-Myanmar border

Mae Sot, a town on the Thai-Myanmar frontier home to a large Burmese migrant worker and refugee community, was hit hard in February when borders shut and supply routes were interrupted. Wayland Blue of the Shade Tree Foundation was part of an outreach team trying to mitigate these effects through a community outreach programme
By Wayland Blue

Health • May 21, 2020 • 2 min read
Covid-19

Robot dog on virus park patrol in Singapore

A yellow robot dog called Spot, which found fame online for dancing to Mark Ronson's hit song Uptown Funk, has been deployed to patrol a Singapore park and ensure people observe social distancing to stem the spread of Covid-19
By Agence France-Presse