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Wedding organiser who promotes child marriages stirs anger in Indonesia
JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): A wedding organiser promoting child marriage as well as unregistered marriage has created uproar in Indonesia.
Anwar on Unicef report: Govt must do more to ease poverty and unemployment
PORT DICKSON: A Unicef report that unemployment among low-income urban families in Kuala Lumpur has doubled during the conditional movement control order is worrying, says Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
School meals resume in Cambodia after Covid-19 interruptions
PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): School meals resumed in Cambodia after the situation of Covid-19 has been brought under control, according to a joint statement released on Monday (Feb 8).
Unemployment among KL's urban poor has doubled, says Unicef report
PETALING JAYA: Unemployment among low-income urban families in Kuala Lumpur has doubled during the conditional movement control order in December last year, says the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef).
Vietnam expects to receive first Covid-19 vaccines before end of March
HANOI, Feb 7 (Reuters): Vietnam is expected to get access to the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines under the COVAX sharing scheme within the first quarter, its government has announced.
Lending a voice to the Covid generation
DURING the enforcement of the movement control order last year, Pritika Nagaraj was overwhelmed by her accumulating schoolwork.
COVAX bottlenecks need to be urgently addressed, U.N. agency says
GENEVA (Reuters) - A top official at the U.N. agency in charge of vaccine deliveries via the COVAX sharing scheme urged recipient countries on Friday to address bottlenecks that could hamper the rollout set to begin this month.
Imparting kindness in future leaders
PETALING JAYA: The Star’s #StandTogether Kindness Leaders are among the passionate youngsters from across South-East Asia who took part in Unicef’s first regional Kindness Leaders Conference.
Philippines expects 5.6 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to arrive by end-March; virus total now above 525,000
MANILA, Jan 31 (Reuters): At least 5.6 million Covid-19 doses of two international Covid-19 vaccines are expected to arrive in the Philippines in the first quarter of the year, the chief of the country's coronavirus task force said on Sunday.
Half of young people feel excluded from political decision-making: report
ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Participation in decision-making, quality education, internet access and the climate crisis are among the main concerns for children and young people in Africa and Europe, according to U-Report polling data released by the African Union (AU), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the European Union (EU).
