Timor-Leste: CoronaVirus Meter

Singapore reports 1 community case among 15 new COVID-19 infections

17h | Channel NewsAsia Singapore

One community case was among the 15 new COVID-19 infections reported in Singapore as of noon on Friday (Jan 22), said the ...

Timor-Leste Covid-19 Household Cash Transfer

9d | The Asia Foundation

The Timorese government provided a US$200 cash transfer to around 300,000 households that earn under US$500 per month in all ...

Bahamas ‘Has Tamed Covid-19 Pandemic’

4h | Tribune242

THE Bahamas is one of just 27 countries that have tamed the COVID-19 pandemic, according to over 4,000 scientists and community organisers worldwide. # The list of countries “beating” COVID-19 was put ...

Cluster at Kallang firm grows to eight with new case

2h | The Straits Times

The sole locally transmitted Covid-19 case reported yesterday has been linked to the cluster at BS Industrial & Construction Supply in Kallang, bringing the number of cases in this cluster to eight..

Johnson & Johnson donates nicotine patches to help thousands of Jordanians quit tobacco during COVID-19

10h | World Health Organization

The Ministry of Health of Jordan has received its first ever donation of nicotine replacement therapy from Johnson & Johnson ...

WFP Timor-Leste Country Brief, November 2020

4d | ReliefWeb

Timor-Leste registered no new COVID-19 cases in November 2020. Nonetheless, the State of Emergency remained in effect. • WFP continued the final revision of the Food Safety Guideline for schools.

Pacific Countries Like Fiji Could Wait Until 2025 for Widespread COVID-19 Vaccines, Experts Warn

1d | Global Citizen

The Economist Intelligence Unit predicts that most Pacific nations will have to wait until 2025 before reaching widespread COVID-19 vaccination.

Cambodia, Timor-Leste seek civil aviation cooperation

9d | Khmer Times

Leste Ambassador Ermenegildo Kupa Lopes discussed civil aviation cooperation on Tuesday. Lopes expressed his appreciation and ...

Paya Lebar Square foodcourt, Bedok Mall & VivoCity among new locations visited by Covid-19 cases

9h | Mothership.sg

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed 15 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday (Jan. 22), including one new community case.

New Zealand Hosts 20,000-Person Concert as Country Marks 2 Months Without COVID in Community

2d | Newsweek on MSN.com

New Zealand took several key precautions that the U.S. and other nations failed to in order to quickly tame the pandemic.

Pacific Countries Like Fiji Could Wait Until 2025 for Widespread COVID-19 Vaccines, Experts Warn

1d | Global Citizen

The Economist Intelligence Unit predicts that most Pacific nations will have to wait until 2025 before reaching widespread COVID-19 vaccination.

WHO supports member countries to end COVID-19 pandemic

7d | The Himalayan Times

East Asia Region are gearing up for massive vaccination campaigns in a bid to end the COVID-19 pandemic. The WHO South-East Asia Region has 11 member countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic ...

Travel trends for 2021 according to Booking.com's Nuno Guerreiro

16h | Asia One

Covid-19 hasn’t just thrown a wrench into all our holiday plans – it’s reset the global travel landscape, perhaps for years ...

Holidays: Travel corridor list update as more countries banned from entering UK

1d | Daily Express

HOLIDAYS have been repeatedly thwarted by the pandemic, and Thursday afternoons have come to be equated with new travel ...

New Zealand Hosts 20,000-Person Concert as Country Marks 2 Months Without COVID in Community

2d | Newsweek on MSN.com

New Zealand took several key precautions that the U.S. and other nations failed to in order to quickly tame the pandemic.

Boeing officials and US aviation experts to visit Sriwijaya Air crash site after Indonesia grants coronavirus waiver

10d | South China Morning Post

Indonesia’s Transport Ministry on Tuesday said it passed an airworthiness inspection last month after being grounded during ...

Vietnam, Timor-Leste to maintain mutual support at regional, int’l forums

10d | VOV Online

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh held talks with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of ...

At P10,266/Filipino, PH’s virus response lags behind peers’

7d | Philippine Daily Inquirer

With at least P74.5 billion set aside in the 2021 national budget for direct health and medical response to COVID-19, ...

Food security research grants for Covid-19 impacts available to PHL, Southeast Asians

6d | BusinessMirror

Grants for research on transformation through agricultural innovation in Southeast Asia are available to Filipinos and from Southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Timor-Leste ...

Vietnam news today (January 13): Vietnam, Timor-Leste to maintain mutual support at regional, int’l forums

9d | vietreader.com

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh (L) at the online talks with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and ...

Indonesia cat bond possible, as World Bank lends for disaster insurance plan

13h | Artemis

The World Bank has approved $500 million of funding for Indonesia to help the country enhance its financial response to ...

WHO struggling to secure vaccines for ‘needy’ countries

13d | independent.co.ug

Uganda on list of 92 countries to benefit from COVAX AMC In July the GAVI Board agreed on the 92 economies that will be ...

Food security research grants for Covid-19 impacts available to PHL, Southeast Asians

6d | BusinessMirror

Grants for research on transformation through agricultural innovation in Southeast Asia are available to Filipinos and from Southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Timor-Leste ...

At P10,266/Filipino, PH’s virus response lags behind peers’

7d | Philippines Daily Inquirer on MSN.com

With at least P74.5 billion set aside in the 2021 national budget for direct health and medical response to COVID-19, including mass vaccination, the Philippines’ war chest to fight the pandemic has ...

World Report 2021 Australia

9d | Human Rights Watch

Australia is a vibrant multicultural democracy with robust institutions, but in 2020 the global Black Lives Matter movement ...

Dr. Palitha Abeykoon appointed WHO Special Envoy on COVID-19

7d | Daily News on MSN.com

Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed Dr Palitha Abeykoon, who was appointed as the Organization’s Special Envoy on COVID-19.Ghebreyesus tweeted that Dr. Abeykoon’s experience in ...

ADF up to the challenges of 2020

11d | GlobalSecurity.org

At the beginning of 2020, as Australia burned, Defence swung into action with the largest-ever mobilisation of the ADF in response to a domestic disaster. More than 8200 personnel supported ...

KL United FC appoint Hodak as new head coach

12d | bernama.com

Former national Under 19 (U-19) head coach Bojan Hodak has been appointed as the new head coach of Kuala Lumpur United ...