HOT NEWS
- The World Bank warns of the economic impacts of COVID-19 on low wage workers and the possibility of 11 million people falling into poverty in East Asia and the Pacific.
Source: The Straits Times
- The data from John Hopkins University revealed that the coronavirus death toll in the US exceeded 3,000, and roughly half of which were from New York.
Source: RT
- Israel plans to use a mobile software to locate the potential coronavirus carriers, by analyzing and gathering the data from their phone with real-time updates.
Source: CNA
WORLD
- U.S intelligence agencies face difficulties in studying the outbreak situation in China, Russia, and North Korea due to heavy state controls on information.
Source: Reuters
- Amid rising COVID-19 cases, Russian Interior Ministry announced a 90-day visa extension to all foreigners arriving in Russia, regardless of the purposes of their visit.
Source: Sputnik
- A US Navy hospital ship with 1,000 beds arrived in New York, as the governor begged for help after the death toll in New York passed 1,200.
Source: Al Jazeera
REGIONS
- DPRK warned they could cut off the bilateral nuclear dialogue after Mike Pompeo urged all nations to continue economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea.
Source: The Guardian
- Indonesia said they need stronger measures to contain the mobility of people returning home from Jakarta, the epicenter in the country, after losing their incomes.
Source: The Straits Times
India police fired tear gas on a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers who disobeyed the 3-week lockdown after the lockdown left hundreds of thousands of people jobless.
Source: The Globe and Mail
CAMBODIA
- PM Hun Sen has ordered local producers of white rice and paddy to suspend exports to secure the domestic supplies as COVID-19 infection cases in Cambodia continue to rise.
Source: The Phnom Penh Post
- The state of emergency law is being drafted in an inter-ministerial meeting today as the government levelled up effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Source: Thmey Thmey
- The national Assembly approved the cabinet reshuffle, wherein the new cabinet sees four new ministers and an appointment of the minister for the renamed Ministry.
Source: Khmer Times
