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Jakarta – At least 13 McDonald’s outlets across Indonesia were temporarily closed on Wednesday (June 9) as customers rushed to buy the new meal it launched in partnership with the popular K-pop group BTS, sparking fears of Covid-19 transmission. The BTS meal, which consists of 10-piece McNuggets, accompanying Cajun and sweet chilli sauces, a medium […]

An Italian woman in a Ryanair flight from Ibiza, Spain, to Bergamo, Italy, was caught on camera refusing to wear a mask, spitting at another passenger and pulling another woman’s hair before she was dragged off from the flight. Footage of the May 26 incident has gone viral on social media. At the beginning of […]

Beijing — China’s National Health Commission (NHC) confirmed a 41-year-old man as the first person infected with the H10N3 strain of bird flu on Tuesday (Jun 1). The man, from Zhenjiang in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu, was hospitalised on April 28 after developing a fever. According to the NHC, the man contracted the H10N3 […]

Kuala Lampur — US authorities eager to get people vaccinated against Covid-19 have offered inducements ranging from free beer to million-dollar lottery prizes, and now rock concert promoters have their own twist: whopping ticket discounts. Fans of punk bands Teenage BottleRocket, MakeWar and Rutterkin can get into the June 26 concert in coastal Saint Petersburg, […]

Kuala Lampur — Netizens are calling for the national vaccination programme to be speeded up by harnessing both public and private healthcare resources. A petition to the prime minister titled “Mass Vaccination in the Shortest Time Possible” garnered close to 10,000 signatures within 12 hours yesterday and the number is still climbing. The petition was […]

Colombo — Burning for a week since it caught fire last Thursday (May 20), the Singapore-registered vessel X-Press Pearl now poses the threat of a major oil spill along Sri Lanka’s coast. The container ship anchored outside Colombo harbour carries 278 tonnes of bunker oil and 50 tonnes of marine gasoil. Due to poor packaging, […]

KUALA LUMPUR — Over one million doses of the AstraZeneca and CoronaVac Covid-19 vaccines arrived this morning at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) which the Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF) said will be used to speed up the national programme (NIP). CITF said 559,200 doses of the AstraZeneca type vaccines and the 500,000 CoronaVac […]

NEW YORK — In the end, it seems that artificial blue light from smartphones, tablets and other screens may not be harmful to skin. A new scientific study suggests that artificial blue light only has a “negligible effect” on skin, unlike natural blue light from the sun, which the scientists consider to be “the actual […]

KUCHING — The Institute of Health and Community Medicine (IHCM), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) has detected seven Covid-19 cases of the South African Variant of Concern (VOC), B.1.351, in the Kuching District. Unimas head Professor Dr David Perera said the earliest case was tested positive after Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests on April […]

KUALA LUMPUR — Laksa, a traditional noodle dish loved and cherished by all Malaysians. However, an online war has been brewing amongst local social media users over the best laksa as there are several different types of laksa in Malaysia including laksa Kedah, laksa Johor and laksa Sarawak. These laksa differ in taste and texture […]

New Delhi — After Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday (May 18) that a variant of the coronavirus found in Singapore could cause a third wave in India, Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain categorically stated that it is “wrong to say that there is no Singapore strain”. The Delhi Health Minister added that […]

KUALA LUMPUR — Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has urged Malaysians to take the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic more seriously, lest further complacency leads to more loss of life that could have been prevented. He said that Putrajaya has claimed to have spent over RM600 billion in the fight against the pandemic. […]

PETALING JAYA — Fashion designer Datuk Rizalman Ibrahim has hit the pause button on his business operations in light of the rising Covid-19 cases in Malaysia. In a statement posted to Instagram, the Penang-born creative told followers that businesses under RIC Group Sdn Bhd will temporarily halt all operations, including the fulfilment of online orders. […]

Singapore—Asian countries such as Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam have been held up as successful examples of managing the Covid-19 pandemic, with infection numbers much lower than in the United States, Europe and South American countries. However, with the US going mask-free as of last week, and infection numbers in much of Europe continuing to go […]

Delhi —  Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday (May 18) that a variant of the coronavirus found in Singapore could cause a third wave in India and appealed to the Indian government to halt all flights to and from Singapore. In a tweet on Tuesday (May 18), Mr Kejriwal wrote: “The new form […]