antibodies, a 6 percentage point increase from a December survey. Pandu Riono, an epidemiologist at

IPOH: Perak recorded 1, 204 road accidents in the first 11 days of Ramadan, a 16% increase from the corresponding period last year. State Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department( JSPT) chief Supt Azizan Hassan said 1, 039 cases were reported last year. The increase was probably because there were no more restrictions on movement like before, he said, Bernama reported.“ Of the total, 18 were fatal accidents, 13 resulted in severe injuries, 44 involved minor injuries while the remaining 1

India and Bhutan will have seven additional entry and exit points for trade as part of measures to increase trade connectivity, the government said on Wednesday. The decision was taken at a commerce secretary-level meeting held between India and Bhutan on trade and transit issues here. The Indian delegation was led by BVR Subrahmanyam, Secretary, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Bhutanese delegation was led by Dasho Karma Tshering, Secretary, Ministry of Economic

The Foreign Office( FO) summoned the Indian charge d’affaires on Tuesday to register a protest over an elderly man’s killing in Kotli’s Nikial sector, along the Line of Control( LoC). The 60-year-old man was killed by the Indian army’s “ unprovoked firing ” a day ago in violation of a ceasefire agreement between Islamabad and New Delhi.In a statement issued today, the FO said it had summoned the Indian charge d’affaires and urged for an investigation into the incident.It was also stressed that t

Southeast Asia's biggest economy posted a record of more than 56, 000 daily cases in mid-July, and while reported case numbers have dipped slightly Indonesia registered record-high COVID-19 deaths on four days last week.... But with more than 50% of Indonesians employed in the informal sector and with limited financial support and mounting pandemic fatigue, the government has few choices, says Dr Dicky." Is it the correct decision?... But then the government doesn’t have any option because of

Workers in protective suits prepare to lower a coffin containing the body of a COVID-19 victim into a grave at Cipenjo cemetery in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, on July 14, 2021.... " Emergency social restrictions are still inadequate.... A month ago, daily cases were running at about 8, 000....

JAKARTA: Online mall Bukalapak is set to raise about 22 trillion Indonesian rupiah( US$ 1. 5bil or RM6. 33bil) in the country’s largest-ever initial public offering( IPO) that presages a wave of domestic tech listings, according to sources. The e-commerce marketplace is planning to price its upsized offering of 25.77 billion shares at 850 rupiah( RM0.25) apiece, according to the sources. The shares were marketed at 750 rupiah( RM0.22) to 850 rupiah( RM0.25) each. The retailer would be valued at

JAKARTA: Indonesia has warned that its coal supply situation remains critical, ahead of Wednesday's review of its export ban, unnerving global markets for the fuel used to generate most of the electricity that drives Asia's biggest economies. Coal futures in China, the world's biggest consumer of the fuel, surged on Tuesday after Indonesia, the top exporter of the coal used in power plants and China's largest overseas supplier, on Saturday banned exports for January to avoid outages at the gener

1.13 trillion($ 14.5 billion) to build the 10 GW Upper Siang multi-purpose storage project at Yingkiong in Arunachal Pradesh, a project that is central to counter China’s ambitious water diversion scheme of the Siang river that feeds downstream into the Brahmaputra..... The 10 gigawatt( GW) Upper Siang multi-purpose storage project will be built at Yingkiong in Arunachal Pradesh. NHPC Ltd has been tasked with the project that will include building the dam to store around 10 billion cubic metres

The coronavirus has killed so many people in Iran that the country has resorted to mass burials, but in neighboring Iraq, the body count is fewer than 100. The Dominican Republic has reported nearly 7, 600 cases of the virus.... It eventually reached far-flung places like islands in Alaska and the South Pacific and infected a third of the world’s population.“ We are really early in this disease, ” said Dr.... Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Research Institute....