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Opinion by Jomo: Learn from Korea, Vietnam and China in combating Covid-19
KUALA LUMPUR: Covid-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin America have long overtaken East Asia since the second quarter of 2020. Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering prevailing Western accounts of the Asian financial crises, there have been no serious efforts to draw policy lessons from East Asian contagion containment.
The good doctor from Penang
Medical and scientific descendants around the world honour Dr Wu Lien-Teh, the internationally acclaimed 'Plague Fighter'.
The advent of face masks
As our understanding of how diseases and the germs that cause them evolved, so did the use of face coverings or masks to prevent them.
‘Defer Qing Ming this year’
GEORGE TOWN: The Chinese community has been urged to postpone this year’s Qing Ming festival (All Souls Day), and to pray from home to avoid any unnecessary social or religious gatherings which could help spread the Covid-19.
Malaysia’s little-known plague fighter
HIS name is conspicuously absent from our school history books and he has never been accorded the recognition he truly deserves.
Wu Lien-Teh: Malaysia's little-known plague virus fighter
The Malaysian doctor fought a deadly plague in China which killed 60,000 people.
Opening a new chapter in history with book translation
GEORGE TOWN: A Bahasa Malaysia version of a book on the history behind Penang’s street names authored by Datuk Seri Wong Chun Wai and his fellow Penangite colleagues has been completed by Universiti Sains Malaysia students.
Virology in her DNA
WHEN Dr Mary Jane Cardosa was offered the position of a researcher in the Sarawak forest, she jumped at the chance even when her boss told her she was out of her mind.
Hu Yew Seah honours legendary poet and doctor
GEORGE TOWN: The local mural art scene now has an extra attraction along Madras Lane here, where the historical Hu Yew Seah buildings are located.
