covid-19



STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 17, 2020 • 2 min read

Thai economy Thailand’s economy shrinks most in more than 20 years

By Agence France-Presse • Aug 17, 2020
Thailand's economic growth contracted by 12.2% in the second quarter of the year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the steepest drop for the tourism-driven economy since the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 11, 2020 • 11 min read

Cambodia in Quarantine A return to the fields

By Andrew Haffner • Aug 11, 2020
Once the largest single industry in the Kingdom, Cambodia's agricultural sector has shrunk significantly with the growth of industrialisation. Now, with few other options as the economy stalls due to the pandemic, Cambodians are once again going to ground

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 11, 2020 • 8 min read

Cambodia in Quarantine Finding a pulse

By Andrew Haffner • Aug 11, 2020
For centuries the Tonle Sap has been key to the Kingdom's fisheries and a source of nourishment for millions. Now, dams on the Mekong, negligence and climate change are changing history and threatening the Kingdom's food security

Aug 10, 2020 • 13 min read
Cambodia in Quarantine

Locking the factory doors

For decades the garment and footwear industry has fuelled Cambodia's economic miracle, with more than 900,000 workers employed by over 1,000 factories at its peak. But with the global economic shutdown, the factory lights are off and the doors locked
By Andrew Haffner and Kong Meta • Aug 10, 2020

Aug 10, 2020 • 5 min read
Thailand

Supercars and champagne: Bangkok’s rich purr through

The global pandemic has hit the pockets of the majority, but one minority remain unscathed with Thailand's wealthy elite finding their purse strings during Covid-19 as loose as ever
By Aidan Jones / AFP • Aug 10, 2020

Aug 03, 2020 • 3 min read
Covid-19

Millions return to lockdown in Philippines as virus cases soar

About a quarter of the Filipino population are set to be placed back under lockdown as the country witnesses a fresh surge in Covid-19 cases that has overwhelmed health workers and hospitals
By Agence France-Presse • Aug 03, 2020

Jul 31, 2020 • 2 min read
Covid-19

Vietnam counts record number of cases as virus creeps back

Vietnam has recorded 45 news cases of Covid-19 – its highest single daily tally since the start of the pandemic – as an outbreak in the tourist city of Danang erodes the country's efforts to stay virus-free
By Agence France-Presse • Jul 31, 2020

Jul 30, 2020 • 7 min read
Tales of the Pandemic

The long way home: State quarantine in a Bangkok hotel

Last week, Globe reporter Wanpen Pajai returned to her native Thailand from the Netherlands. Beyond bureaucratic hoops, stringent health checks and now state quarantine, along the way she has also encountered human stories from people impacted by the pandemic
By Wanpen Pajai • Jul 30, 2020

Jul 16, 2020 • 2 min read
Thai politics

Thailand’s top economic team resigns amid Covid-19 recovery struggle

Several senior Thai government officials resigned on July 16 in an attempt to 'relieve political pressure'. The resignations from the five paves the way for a political reshuffle amid the country's ongoing economic recovery efforts
By EFE-EPA • Jul 16, 2020

Jul 15, 2020 • 5 min read
Covid-19

Asia’s garment workers say virus used as cover to smash unions

From India to Myanmar and Cambodia, across Asia garment workers are reporting that the crippling effects of the pandemic on the industry are being used as cover to smash labour unions
By Sophie Deviller/AFP • Jul 15, 2020