The police in South and West Sulawesi, Indonesia, have announced they have deployed 1,100 personnel to the city of Palopo following yesterday’s riots that burned down several offices, including the office of the Palopo
Health experts in Taipei said yesterday that the H7N9 bird flu epidemic might have spread widely, judging from the recent confirmed H7N9 cases from different areas in China. H7N9, a sub-type that had not
While the Philippines has not given up its claim to Sabah, the Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur has asked Filipino barter traders to comply with fresh Malaysian regulations “notably requiring Filipinos and other foreigners”
Filipino embassy officials were able to visit eight alleged followers of the Sultanate of Sulu currently detained in a prison in Sabah after they were charged with terrorism and rebellion in connection with the
The pay-for-performance scheme announced by the Public Health Ministry will damage the public health system in the long run, doctors say. The new medical salary system announced by Thailand’s Public Health MInistry has prompted
Set up in 2010, the Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX), a pan-Asian commodity and currency derivatives exchange, is now hunting for more agricultural commodities from black pepper in Vietnam to rubber in Thailand, to become
Hong Kong is stepping up inspections at border checkpoints and placing its hospitals on alert, as news of three infections in China from a strain of bird flu not found in humans before reverberate
Jakarta Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has consulted with the authorities in Singapore regarding the upcoming construction of mass rapid transit (MRT) in the Indonesian capital. The governor, along with the assistant to the city
While pushing for gender equality in Buddhist-majority areas of Thailand is difficult, selling the idea in the predominantly Muslim southernmost provinces is even tougher, the Law Reform Commission of Thailand (LRCT) discovered last week
PT Mabua Harley Davidson, the sole authorised dealer for the motorbike brand in Indonesia, is expecting higher sales this year, spurred by strong economic growth, which creates higher purchasing power for Indonesians, an executive