By APD writer AliceAfter the trade war between the US and China, the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a continent-wide recession wo
by Xinhua writer Shi Xiaomeng Washington's irresponsible decision to suspend funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) seems to have rubbed salt in the already w
By APD writer Alice Indonesia has overtaken Japan to become the world’s third-biggest aviation market as airlines continue to slash passenger transport capacity due to
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By APD writer AliceThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on April 16 that Asia’s economic growth will stand at zero this year, the rate that has not been seen for
“Tigertail,” a new film on Netflix, weaves together the past and the present to tell the life story of Pin-Jui, who we first meet as a Taiwanese boy dreaming of moving to America.We soon s
By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaMANILA With nearly 5,000 Filipinos found to be COVID-19 positive and 315 deaths reported by the Department of Health and against the ongoing
By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaMANILA Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, delivering his intervention at the ASEAN Plus Three Summit on COVID-19 said trying to solve the
By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte said COVID-19 pandemic is an “unfolding catastrophe, unprecedented in scale and devastating in impact fo
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, in Washington DC, April 13, 2020. /AP Editor's note: Mike Cormack is a writer, ed
Anthony Fauci (front), director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases(NIAID), attends a press conference on the coronavirus at the White Hou
By APD writer AliceThe latest survey by market research firm Nielsen of the US shows that the eating habits of people in Asia may change after the COVID-19 pandemic."Co
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By APD writer AliceThe Thai Department of Health has launched a campaign named “Save Parents” calling people nationwide to avoid visiting their parents and elderly fami
By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaMANILA. April 9 (APD) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he is prepared to sell government assets including the Cultural Center of the Philippi
Editor’s note: Our writer Rita’s journey from China to the US and back again was planned months before the coronavirus pandemic descended on the world. That descent ended up turning a simp
By APD writer AliceSeeing the distribution of charity rice poses risks of coronavirus infection, a 35-year-old man in Ho Chi Minh City, the southern metropolis of Vietn