COVID-19

Podcast កំពុង​មាន​ការ​ពេញនិយម​យ៉ាងខ្លាំងក្នុង​ចំណោម​យុវជន ដោយ​ភ្ជាប់​ពួកគេ​ទៅនឹង​ប្រធានបទ​ជា​ច្រើន​ដូចជា​ ព្រឹត្តិការណ៍​បច្ចុប្បន្ន​ សកម្មភាព​ឆ្លើយតប​នឹង​ការប្រែប្រួល​អាកាសធាតុ រហូត​ដល់​សុខភាព​ផ្លូវ​ចិត្ត​ និង​ការតស៊ូ​ជាដើម។

Podcasts are picking up, connecting with younger audiences on topics ranging from current affairs, climate action to mental health and resilience.

Many may think that addressing sustainability – whether plastic use or climate change – can come after economic recovery from COVID-19. But they are not separate issues at all.

More public awareness of the link between wildlife and pandemics has given conservation groups a wider entry point to step up campaigns against their use. But COVID-19 restrictions have also led wildlife traffickers and sellers to turn to social platforms to push their trade.

Vintage fashion appeals to consumers who would like their purchases to have a smaller environmental footprint. For the women entrepreneurs who sell them, they are a source of livelihood in hard times, a creative outlet and advocacy  — toward sustainability.

Vietnam is on the way to meet fundraising target for its national vaccine fund. Its percentage of fully vaccinated people is the lowest thus far in  Southeast Asia, as its worst COVID-19 surge kicks in.

Six months after the 1 Feb coup, hypervigilance has become a survival skils for many people in Myanmar. But they are mostly on their own in the ‘double trouble’ of COVID-19 emergency and the coup crisis.

Tình hình COVID-19 tại Myanmar đang trong tình trạng khẩn cấp và biến đổi nhanh chóng, tệ hơn những gì chúng ta biết. Reporting ASEAN đã phỏng vấn tổ chức Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) để có bức tranh toàn cảnh.

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်း ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ကပ်ရောဂါဟာ ရုတ်တရက် အရေးပေါ်အန္တရာယ်ကျရောက်မည့် အခြေအနေကို ရောက်ရှိ နေပြီ ဖြစ်တယ်။ လတ်တလော ကျွနှု်ပ်တို့သိရှိထားတဲ့ အခြေအနေတွေထက် အလွန့်အလွန် ပိုမို ဆိုးရွားလာနိုင်ဖွယ်ရှိ နေတယ်။

Myanmar’s pandemic-hit communities are trying to fend for themselves as the country’s health system, already crippled after the Feb 1 coup, crumbles under a third outbreak of COVID-19. But the country needs a much stronger response, not to mention a functioning government.

The pandemic in Myanmar is an emergency that is unfolding swiftly, and is much, much worse than what we know at the moment. Reporting ASEAN speaks to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to get a better picture of the situation.

Resignation, frustration mix as Southeast Asians find that their countries are back in lockdowns. But vaccination is underway, covering larger proportions of people in Singapore and Indonesia, than in the Philippines and Thailand.

COVID-19 may have forced Singapore and Malaysia to address the appalling living conditions of migrant workers they host. But larger and wider problems such as the lack of social protection, as well as discrimination that has become worse during the pandemic, persist.

สถานการณ์โควิด-19 ทำให้สิงคโปร์และมาเลเซียจำต้องหันมาดูแลสภาพความเป็นอยู่ที่น่าอนาถของแรงงานข้ามชาติในประเทศ แต่ปัญหาที่ใหญ่และหนักกว่านั้นก็ยังคงอยู่ เช่นไม่มีการปกป้องทางสังคม และมีการกีดกันเพิ่มขึ้นในช่วงโรคระบาดนี้

Check out our charts to know how the vaccination drive is playing out: How many vaccine doses have been administered in the region? What’s the share of their population that has been fully vaccinated? How willing are people to be vaccinated? Which vaccines are which countries using?

Thailand, whose pandemic management has earned praises, looks to do mass vaccination from June and produce vaccines for local use and for export.

20 MARCH 2021 | REPORTING ASEAN In English | Burmese | Indonesian Độ “tào lao” của thông tin cho rằng chế độ ăn thực phẩm chứa alkaline cao (giàu kiềm) có thể chống dịch Covid-19 đến nay đã được xác định khẳng định trên khắp thế giới. Tuy nhiên, thông tin sai lệch này cũng […]

Our two data visualisations  provide a year-long perspective of how Southeast Asia responded to COVID-19 in terms of stringency measures. COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on Mar 11, 2020.

Eight months after it lost its franchise to operate in the Philippines’ polarised political setting, the country’s largest network is disproving the sceptics who say legacy media are too clumsy to pivot to digital.