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0ASEAN NewsSome Asian Countries are Enticing Vaccine-Hesitant Citizens with Rewards and Prizes!
From live chickens to million-dollar apartments, a growing number of Asian countries are going all-in to get their populations vaccinated! With vaccine...
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0Local NewsMuhyiddin Gets Chilly Reception to Months-Long ‘Recovery Plan’ for Malaysia
Critics have pounced on the Prime Minister’s June 15 announcement of Malaysia’s National Recovery Plan as being too vague, too little, and...
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0ASEAN NewsIndonesian City Implements Vaccination Drives to Expedite Covid-19 Inoculations
Starting June 1, Pekanbaru’s ‘vaccine busses’ have made inoculations easier, faster, and more convenient for the residents in Sumatra’s Riau Province. Proving...
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0NewsChinese Paleontologists Discover 180-Million-Year-Old Nearly Intact Dinosaur Skeleton
Delighting dino-enthusiasts everywhere, this latest prehistoric find is a gem of a discovery that will contribute much more to fossil studies. Paleontologists...
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0Local NewsMalaysia Now Officially Has a New ‘Tallest Building’ Champ
The Merdeka PNB 118 skyscraper was officially topped out earlier this week, and can now lay claim to being Malaysia’s tallest building...
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0NewsThe US Has Purchased 500 Million Pfizer Vaccine Doses to Give Away to the World
For many of the countries receiving this welcome donation of vaccines, such an extraordinary effort will be a potential game-changer in helping...
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0Asia Pacific NewsTaiwan’s Early Success with Covid Is Unravelling, and as US Sends Vaccine Aid, Beijing Fumes
One of the world’s true success stories with Covid-19 in 2020, Taiwan is quickly learning how tenacious an opponent the virus is...
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0NewsThe US Is Donating 80 Million Vaccine Doses; Is Malaysia on the List?
The United States had previously committed to donating 60 million Covid-19 vaccine doses, but then raised it to 80 million, with Asia...
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0NewsChinese Man Becomes First Visually Impaired Asian to Climb Mount Everest
The Chongqing native who is completely blind, scaled the highest mountain peak in the world in just three days! A 46-year-old mountaineer...
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0Asia Pacific NewsDiplomats Gone Wild! Belgium Pulls the Plug on Its Ambassador to South Korea Following Wife’s Actions
As a result of an ugly incident caught on video in which the Belgian ambassador’s wife berated and slapped a shopkeeper, Brussels...
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0Local NewsMalaysia Is Locking Down Again. Some Believe It’s the Wrong Move.
Over a full year after Malaysia’s onerous full-scale nationwide lockdown was lifted, the government will impose another one in a desperate bid...
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0Local NewsMalaysia Suffers a Massive Plunge in Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking
In the latest monthly ranking of the best and worst places to be during the coronavirus pandemic, Malaysia and India recorded the...
