Abbott was the prime minister during the MH370 tragedy.  Abbott's Malaysian counterpart at that time was Datuk Seri Najib Razak, with Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai as his transport minister. Both were…

While China says its lockdown of cities and tough curbs on travel and movement have limited the spread of the virus, this has come at great cost to its economy, with repercussions for global…

(ST) - Indonesia's nuclear authorities said on Monday (Feb 17) they would investigate the radioactive contamination of a patch of land in a housing complex outside Jakarta, and called for calm.…

(MalayMail) - Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) has slashed Singapore's economic growth forecast for 2020 amid the Covid-19 outbreak, with a possible full-year recession on the…

(Bloomberg) - China is administering its centuries-old traditional medicine on patients affected by the coronavirus disease, a top health official said. Treatment in Wuhan hospitals combine…

(FMT) - Elephant parks unvisited, curios at markets unsold as tuk-tuks sit idle: Southeast Asia is facing billions of dollars in losses from a collapse in Chinese tourism since the outbreak of a…

(NST) - Singapore has detected five more Covid-19 coronavirus cases, bringing the tally of infections in the republic to 72. The new cases comprise three Singaporeans, a Bangladeshi and a…

(CNA) - Rima settles in a chair at an upscale Riyadh cafe, looks around carefully, and seeing no one she recognises, drags on her electronic cigarette and exhales a cloud of smoke. "I feel that…

Thai police arrested a local man who fired multiple gunshots near Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok early morning today (Friday). However, no casualties were reported. Thai police arrested…

(SCMP) - For Huang Meiyun, deputy manager of a hat manufacturer and retailer from Jiangsu, the coronavirus outbreak could not have come at a worse time. “Originally we had plans to deliver our…

(Bloomberg) - February 2020 will come to be remembered as a period of historic disruption to physical supply chains the world over, as the coronavirus wrecks trade. Dozens of export sailings to…

(Aljazeera) - Pakistan's government has approved new rules for regulating cyberspace which opponents say could be used to stifle dissent and free speech. Under regulations that were approved by…

(NST) - As the number of Covid-19 coronavirus cases jumps dramatically in China, a top infectious-disease scientist warns that things could get far worse: Two-thirds of the world’s population…

(BangkokPost) - Villages in Vietnam with 10,000 people close to the nation's capital were placed under quarantine on Thursday after six cases of the deadly new coronavirus were discovered there,…

(Bloomberg) - Coronavirus cases in the Chinese province at the center of the outbreak surged by 45% to nearly 50,000, after authorities added a new group of patients diagnosed by a different…

(Bloomberg) - Global companies from Lockheed Martin to Sweden’s Saab AB are offering military hardware from submarines to helicopters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government as part of his…

Malaysia and over 120 other countries bought rigged encryption devices from a Swiss company secretly controlled by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and which allowed the spy outfit to…

(Nikkei) - Nearly 100 Chinese businesses have been certified to invoke force majeure exemptions from contractual duties by a government trade council that deems the coronavirus outbreak as a…

(Xinhua) - The Philippines has officially notified the United States about the termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between Manila and Washington, Philippines's top diplomat said on…

(ST) - The government of Hubei province, the central Chinese province that is the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, has given the official fatality rates for the virus for the first time,…

(Reuters) - Vietnam has so far this year culled tens of thousands of birds to contain an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu detected at several farms in its northern provinces, an…

(NST) - A 17-year-old male school student was detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) last month for supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to the republic’s Home…

(FMT) - The head of the World Health Organisation has warned that confirmed cases of coronavirus being transmitted by people who have never travelled to China could be the “tip of the iceberg”.…

(ST) - Two ships in the Singapore Strait were attacked by pirates within the span of an hour in the wee hours of yesterday morning. Some engine spares were stolen in one incident, while the…

Almost a month after the first novel coronavirus case outside of China was confirmed in Thailand on Jan 13 and amid the virus’s subsequent spread to a number of other countries, Indonesia seems to…

(Bloomberg) - A soldier with a grudge gunned down 26 people and wounded 57 in Thailand's worst shooting spree before he was fatally shot inside a mall in the country's northeast on Sunday,…

(Xinhua): Chinese health authorities on Sunday (Feb 9) said it received reports of 2,656 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 89 deaths on Saturday from 31 provincial-level…

(NST) - Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) are investigating a religious teacher who had said on Facebook that the novel coronavirus…

(FMT) - Singapore on Friday raised its coronavirus alert level and reported more cases not linked to previous infections or travel to China, a move that sparked panic-buying of essentials in some…

(The Sun Daily) - The registration for clinical trials on the antiviral drug Remdesivir has been approved, and the first batch of pneumonia patients infected by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)…