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STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 19, 2021 • 5 min read

Covid-19 Adding antibody tests to the arsenal

By Leong Hoe Nam and Harjit Gill • Oct 19, 2021
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

Sep 29, 2020 • 9 min read
Covid-19

Vietnam’s contact-tracing app: Public health tool or creeping surveillance?

Vietnam has been lauded for its robust response in containing Covid-19, part of which has been the rolling out of contact-tracing app Bluezone. But tech experts are expressing concern over how the masses of data collected will impact the privacy of users
By Sarah Kim • Sep 29, 2020

Feb 19, 2019 • 4 min read
‘It’s his to lose’

Singapore’s budget binge sparks early election speculation

Singapore’s annual budget announcement, which includes extra healthcare spending for the elderly and other handouts, has fed speculation that the government is gearing up for an election this year – and one name in particular being touted as the city-state’s next prime minister
By Thomas Brent • Feb 19, 2019

Nov 05, 2018 • 3 min read
Sar Kheng

Is Hun Sen’s long-time rival really a ‘democratic alternative’?

Cambodia's Interior Minister Sar Kheng has long been hailed by Western diplomats as a more liberal alternative to Prime Minister Hun Sen's decades-long strongman rule. But with the factional heavyweight growing increasingly strident in his criticism of corruption and incompetence within the ruling party, just what has the former Khmer Rouge cadre done to deserve this reputation?
By Paul Millar • Nov 05, 2018

Apr 26, 2016 • 4 min read
Minorities

Failure to enforce jobs quota law shortchanges Cambodia's disabled

“Access to decent and full employment will enable persons with disabilities to remain out of poverty and to become contributing members of the family and in the society,” said Pradeep Bagival, UN joint programme coordinator of the Disability Rights Initiative Cambodia (DRIC). In August 2010, the Cambodian government issued a…
By David Hutt • Apr 26, 2016

Jan 16, 2015 • 8 min read
Singapore

Golden years

Singapore’s 50th birthday celebrations start this month, but is the government glossing over some inconvenient truths?
By Kirsten Han • Jan 16, 2015