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Using Covid-19 to muzzle Southeast Asia’s reporters

BANGKOK (UCAN): Journalists around Southeast Asia are facing extra limits on their already circumscribed freedoms…

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India’s Covid-19 fight hampered by industrial accidents

MUMBAI (UCAN): India’s fight against Covid-19 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) hit a major hurdle following three industrial…

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Acts of mercy among the disadvantaged during Covid-19

Deacon Simon Chan During their monthly meeting in March, the permanent deacons of the Catholic…

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Southeast Asia’s migrant workers face Covid-19 tragedy
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Southeast Asia’s migrant workers face Covid-19 tragedy

Michael Sainsbury In Singapore, the surprise recent spike in Covid-19 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infections and then…

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Preacher apologises for Covid-19 remark blaming women
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Preacher apologises for Covid-19 remark blaming women

KARACHI (UCAN): Pakistan’s widely followed Islamic preacher, Maulana (scholar) Tariq Jameel, tendered an apology over…

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