Cambodia postpones ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat
Cambodia on January 12 announced the postponement of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat scheduled for January 18-19 in Siem Reap in the in-person format.
Singapore postpones National Day Parade over COVID-19 concerns
Singapore’s National Day Parade (NDP) this year will be postponed to August 21 after the end of the latest COVID-19 restrictions, the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) said on July 22.
No Tokyo, but flame still burns brightly in athletes’ dreams
The Olympic Games, one of the most-anticipated sporting events on the planet, was originally scheduled to start later this month in Tokyo but was postponed to July 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Young talent swimming towards Olympic dreams
The first Vietnamese athlete to clinch a spot in the country’s 2020 Tokyo Olympics team, swimmer Nguyen Huy Hoang then suffered the disappointment of seeing the world’s largest sporting event delayed by a year due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Laos rolls out urgent measures to deal with COVID-19
The Lao Government on April 2 issued a series of urgent measures to ease difficulties in production and business, as well as ensure social welfare amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Malaysian court postpones DPRK citizen’s death-related hearing
A Malaysian court in Sepang district of Malaysia’s Selangor state postponed a hearing for two women suspected in the death of a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) citizen to May 30.