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Thai exporters throw out millions of orchids as tourism plummets
BANGKOK (Bloomberg): As global tourism collapses, so does the orchid industry in top exporter Thailand, where the flowers are regarded as a symbol of hospitality.
Malaysian filmmaker James Wong releases Covid-19 PSA
Malaysian filmmaker James Wong releases Covid-19 PSA short film titled, Viruses Do Not Discriminate, Early Preventive Measures Are Imperative.
Nothing rolling for bowler Ameerul after WYC dream shattered
PETALING JAYA: A true sportsman will always aim to land on top of the podium in every tournament they partake in. And it is no different with national bowler Tun Ameerul Hakim Tun Hasnul Azam.
All’s not lost for retrenched workers
THE Penang government, through its Penang Career Assistance and Talent (CAT) Centre, is offering help to 500 employees of Esquel Group Malaysia Sdn Bhd (EGM) who would be retrenched come June 12.
Drama re-run puts spotlight on Wong-Hui scandal
A RE-RUN of the 2013 Hong Kong draÂma The Hippocratic Crush II, which starred Jacqueline Wong and her then boyfriend Kenneth Ma, has ignited an online debate as it has coincidentally been a year since the actress was caught cheating on him.
‘Liaison office has supervisory power on HK issues’
HONG KONG: The Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government (LOCPG) in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is entrusted with the authority and responsibility to exercise supervisory power on major issues in Hong Kong, the HKSAR government said.
Asian banks tighten credit
SINGAPORE: Bankers are increasingly reluctant to give commodity traders in Asia the credit they need to survive as the lenders grow ever more fearful about the risk of a catastrophic default.
These landlords don’t want us to go to work
SINGAPORE now has two types of landlords. The unhappy ones need folks to show up at offices, malls, hotels and factories, something that’s simply not going to happen in a hurry with the city-state’s coronavirus infections about to hit 6,000.
Three times that the world coughed and Singapore always caught the bug
SINGAPORE: Infection spreading rapidly among migrant workers. Accusations of a cover-up. Wave after wave of infections, with the number of cases hitting new peaks each day. This might sound like Covid-19 (coronavirus), but it happened in Singapore just over a century ago, in 1918, when the world was left reeling from a virus dubbed "the Spanish flu".
Debt relief for poor nations not an easy sell to bondholders
A PAUSE in debt payments for the world’s poorest countries to help them battle the coronavirus will be a hard sell for private creditors.
