March, 2020
Cho Ju-bin: South Korea chatroom sex abuse suspect named after outcry
March 31, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
A man accused of leading a group that blackmailed girls into sharing sexual videos – which were then posted in pay-to-view chatrooms – has been named after an outcry in South Korea. At least 10,000 people used the chatrooms, with some paying up to $1,200 (£1,000) for access. Some 74 people, including 16 underage girls, […]
Read More...Duterte withdraws controversial ‘takeover’ powers
March 31, 2020 · By Joseph Peter Calleja, Manila for www.ucanews.com
The Philippine Congress convened for a special session on March 23 to deliberate a bill that would grant President Rodrigo Duterte greater powers to fight the highly contagious Covid-19 disease. Many lawmakers from the lower house were not in the chamber but were deliberating the bill via video link. If passed, the bill will allow […]
Read More...Covid-19 lockdown turns Qatar’s largest migrant camp into ‘virtual prison’
March 31, 2020 · By Pete Pattisson and Roshan Sedhai in Kathmandu for www.theguardian.com
Qatar’s largest labour camp for migrant workers has become a virtual prison and is in total lockdown after hundreds of construction workers became infected with Covid-19. Police are guarding the perimeter of a huge zone within the “Industrial Area”, leaving thousands of workers trapped in squalid, over-crowded camps, where the virus can spread rapidly. No […]
Read More...Philippines Declares Coronavirus Emergency Amid State of ‘Warfare’
March 31, 2020 · By VOA News for www.voanews.com
The Philippines has declared a state of emergency, allowing it to comply with stricter COVID-19 measures taken by neighboring countries, but also causing human rights worries, such as the use of dog cages to detain curfew violators. Lawmakers passed legislation Tuesday granting emergency powers to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, including the power to commandeer […]
Read More...Have you seen how Taiwan managed Covid-19?
March 31, 2020 · By Richard Fang, Hong Kong for www.ucanews.com
Taiwan and Italy reported their first Covid-19 cases 10 days apart. But they wrote two different stories for the world to learn from. With close economic and cultural ties to China, Taiwan has recorded just 215 cases and two deaths. Across the world in Europe, Italy has reported 69,176 cases and 6,820 deaths, with a world-leading fatality […]
Read More...Will warm weather really kill off Covid-19?
March 30, 2020 · By Richard Gray for www.bbc.com
Many infectious diseases wax and wane with the seasons. Flu typically arrives with the colder winter months, as does the norovirus vomiting bug. Others, such as typhoid, tend to peak during the summer. Measles cases drop during the summer in temperate climates, while in tropical regions they peak in the dry season. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many people are now […]
Read More...Covid-19 testing for VIPs sparks outrage in Philippines
March 30, 2020 · By Joseph Peter Calleja, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Two members of the Philippines’ Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), an agency under the Department of Health (DOH), have revealed a list containing the names of dozens of high-ranking government officials tested for Covid-19 despite a lack of testing kits in provinces and major hospitals. At least 34 senior officials, including their family members, […]
Read More...Coronavirus: South Korea reports lowest number of new cases in four weeks
March 30, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
South Korea has reported the lowest number of new coronavirus cases since infection rates peaked four weeks ago, fuelling hope Asia’s worst outbreak outside China may be abating. The country recorded 64 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 8,961 with 111 deaths. But health officials warn against complacency, […]
Read More...#KokoResign, #KokoKulong: Netizens rage vs Pimentel for breaking quarantine protocols
March 30, 2020 · By Ming Lagman for www.rappler.com
Pimentel, head of President Rodrigo Duterte’s PDP-Laban party and former Senate president, confirmed to reporters on Wednesday after that he had tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. What incensed netizens was the fact that Pimentel, while waiting for the results of his virus test, got out of quarantine and accompanied to the […]
Read More...Stranded and hungry in India’s lockdown
March 30, 2020 · By Melina Delkic for www.nytimes.com
Stranded and hungry in India’s lockdown The effects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s restrictions on movement, affecting some 1.3 billion people in India, are coming into view, as the country’s most vulnerable populations struggle to eat or to find shelter, and get punished for it. Hundreds of thousands of migrant laborers have begun long journeys […]
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