Topic: Southeast Asia
"Thousands mark Tianmen crackdown"People shouted "Donald Tsang doesn't represent me" which is true because again Donald Tsang appears to be more Chinese than the Chinese government officials born on the mainland. Tsang is under the impression that Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao ...
The pandemic influenza scattered all over theglobe. Health SecretaryFrancisco Duque said the patient arrived in the Philippinesfrom Chicago in the United States on May 20. Duque informed that the first case, a 10-year-oldgirl who traveled to the USand Canada,has recovered and was ...
Malaysia's government has confirmed the country's first death linked to swine flu in nearly half-a-year.Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai says the 22-year-old woman died of respiratory problems at a hospital Sunday after testing positive for the H1N1 virus.The minister's statement Tuesday did ...
Thailand confirmed Thursday its first case of a pig infected with swine flu spread from humans, senior officials said.Agriculture minister Thira Wongsamut said that one of 80 pigs in a sample group tested for the virus at Kasertsart University farm in the ...
The World Health Organization on Wednesday urged Asian countries to prepare for a surge in swine flu cases as the northern hemisphere's winter approaches.Much of Asia has so far been hit relatively lightly, but the WHO said hospitals in the region should ...
Malaysia will scale down its National Day celebration next week to curb the spread of swine flu, as the death toll from the virus rose to 69, the health ministry said Monday.Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai said children's participation in the main ...
Thailand has confirmed 14 new deaths linked to swine flu, raising the country's toll to 111.Wana Hanahaoworakul of the Public Health Ministry said Wednesday that Thailand's total number of swine flu cases has now reached 13,019.The deaths occurred from Aug. 9-15.The ministry ...
HANOI (Reuters Life! ) - Hotel menus can quickly go stale, so a luxury resort in Vietnam has come up with a unique solution: ask the guests what they want to eat, every day.After consulting patrons, the main restaurant at the recently ...
Malaysia's health ministry says six more people infected with swine flu have died bringing the death toll related to the virus to 62.The Health Ministry says in a Sunday statement two boys and a man have died of pneumonia. All three have ...
A South Korean man who returned from a trip overseas has died from swine flu, becoming the country's first reported death from the virus, the health ministry here said Saturday. "A man in his 50s died from the new flu after returning ...