Category: Self Care

MANILA – More than 1,600 private schools in the Philippines were shut down, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from 2020 to 2022, Philippine Vice President and Education Secretary, Sara Duterte-Carpio said, yesterday.After a significant decrease in 2020, du…

JAKARTA– The number of pig deaths suspected to be caused by the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara has reached 256.“There were only 253 deaths at first, but now there are three more cases in North Central Timor Regency,” …

Health authorities in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan will allow unmarried individuals to raise a family and enjoy benefits reserved for married couples, in the latest effort to bolster a falling birth rate.The government dictates that only ma…

HANOI– Remittances to Vietnam totalled 19 billion U.S. dollars last year, making it one of the world’s top 10 remittance recipient countries, local media reported.Total remittances to the country increased nearly five percent in 2022, and may go up 3.6…

JAKARTA– Indonesia is set to roll out COVID-19 vaccinations for children under six, starting in the second quarter of this year, the country’s health ministry announced, yesterday.“We’ve already calculated how many children aged six years old and below…

Five people were killed when a passenger bus collided with a probox car last night, in southern Myanmar, according to a traffic policeman.The accident occurred in Ye township of Mon State, at around 6:40 p.m. local time, yesterday.“All the five people …

BANGKOK– The death toll of an oil tanker explosion, in central Thailand’s Samut Songkhram province, rose to eight, as more bodies of victims were recovered from the wreckage, local authorities said yesterday.One Thai national and seven Myanmar national…

A U.S.-based Chinese labor rights group tells VOA Mandarin that workplace safety and a December accident that killed two workers played key roles in triggering protests that turned violent over the weekend in Indonesia at a Chinese-owned nickel smeltin…