Hong Kong Medical Workers Strike To Demand Total Border Closure

HONG KONG, Feb 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Standing at the picket line, just 200 metres from her hospital entrance, Kaddy Chan wished she could report for duty as usual. For weeks now, the outpatient nurse and her colleagues have been grappling with shrinking supplies of surgical masks and hazmat suits, avoiding trips…

Coronavirus: Returning Thais to be quarantined at Chon Buri

By Linda Khoo Hui Li BANGKOK, Feb 4 (NNN-BERNAMA) — All Thais evacuated from Wuhan, the epicentre of the 2019 novel  coronavirus outbreak in China, tomorrow will be examined and quarantined for 14 days at naval base Chon Buri. In a statement Monday,  Royal Thai Navy spokesperson Prachachart Sirisawat said five buildings at the…

M’sia sends first batch of 1 mln gloves to Wuhan

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Malaysia, which sent its first batch of one million medical gloves to Wuhan, China today, will be sending another million on Wednesday, Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok said. The second batch will be sent through a MASkargo flight, following the first batch through an…

Imran Khan’s visit to Malaysia to strengthen KL-Islamabad ties

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s two-day working visit to Malaysia starting today is set to further enhance and solidify long-standing relations between the two nations. Khan’s second visit here since his ascension to the prime minister’s post in August 2018 would include a high-level delegation from Islamabad…

Indonesia Saves Two Baby Orangutans From Trafficking, Detains Alleged Trader

JAKARTA, Feb 3 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesian authorities saved two babies of critically endangered Sumatran orangutans, from a wildlife trafficking, and detained a man suspected of illegal trading. The two Sumatran orangutan babies were seized at the suspect’s house, in North Sumatra province’s district of Langkat, Director General of Law Enforcement,…

Mortar Shell Kills Seven People In Pakistan’s Bajaur

ISLAMABAD, Feb 3 (NNN-APP) – Officials in Pakistan’s Bajaur tribal district said, a mortar shell fired from the Afghan side of the border, killed at least seven people. Gulzar Khan, deputy superintendent of police in Bajaur, confirmed the incident there, bordering Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province. Khan said, the mortar shell…

Iran Obstructed By Saudi Arabia From Attending Meeting On U.S. Peace Plan: Ministry

TEHRAN, Feb 3 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, said that, Saudi Arabia obstructed an Iranian delegation, from attending the upcoming Jeddah meeting on the U.S. peace proposal for the Middle East. Despite invitation by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the secretariat of which is located in Jeddah, Saudi…

China has not yet accepted US help with coronavirus: White House adviser

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — China has been more transparent about the coronavirus than it has been in previous crises but Beijing has not yet accepted a US offer of help to contain the epidemic, White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien said. “So far the Chinese have been more transparent…

20 China evacuees in France showing coronavirus symptoms: Minister

A bus carrying French citizens flown out of Wuhan arrives at a firefighters’ training centre in Aix-en-Provence, southern France AIX-EN-PROVENCE (France), Feb 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Around 20 of the 250 people flown back to France from China on Sunday because of the coronavirus outbreak are presenting symptoms of the virus,…

S.Korea quarantines 800 soldiers as among measures to contain coronavirus

By Oh Seok-min SEOUL: Medical test for future soldiers. Aspiring soldiers wearing masks have their blood taken during a medical checkup at the Seoul office of the Military Manpower Administration on Feb. 3, 2020, part of the year’s first batch of applicants evaluated by the office. All able-bodied South Korean…
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