The fourth wave of Covid-19 pandemic (27 April to October 2021) had a large impact on Vietnam and forced Hanoi to apply social distancing and lockdown directives. This affected...
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Corona Chronicles: Voices from the Field
Keywords: Corona Virus, COVID-19, Outbreak, Pandemic, Southeast Asia Area Studies In late December 2019, the Coronavirus (COVID-19), an infectious...
Uncertainties Hound Overseas Filipinos in the Mekong Region
Amongst people wearing masks, coming and leaving, my friend and I met in the middle of the busy Payathai Train Station walkway. We took off our masks and embraced.
The Paralysis of Tourism and the Rise of Agriculture in Bali...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a global disaster and impacted societies in an unprecedented fashion. In Indonesia, the government has declared a ‘stay at home’...
The New Normal and Conversations Under the Tamarind Tree
Adapting to the new normal prompted by the pandemic is challenging for a developing country like Myanmar. Wearing a mask is proving a difficult adaptation for people from all...
Political Plague1: Thailand’s COVID-19 State of Emergency as a...
In Thailand, 2020 will be remembered more for COVID-19 than for the State of Emergency which authorities decreed ostensibly to combat the virus. But Thailand’s 2020 draconian...
Handling the Outbreak among the Indigenous People of Dayak...
Since March 2020, the Indonesian National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) has categorized the COVID-19 outbreak as a national disaster. To date, however, the authorities have...
COVID-19 in Cambodia: A Double-edged Sword and its Triple...
In late 2019, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) broke out in Wuhan, China. The first case of COVID-19 was found in Sihanoukville in Cambodia on 27 January 2020, through a 60...
Thailand and COVID-19: What’s Happened and What’s Next
The first case of COVID-19 in Thailand was reported on 13 January 2020, a female Chinese tourist from Wuhan. It was then widely predicted that Thailand would be the third worst...
Global Problems, Local Pain: Coronavirus in Mexico and the...
COVID-19, a virus one hundred times smaller than a cell, has pushed millions of people over the edge, and aggravated our dominant economic system. With both Mexico and the...
Self-isolation in Hanoi during COVID-19: What Made it Possible?
From Midnight, March 28, 2020, Vietnam commenced a nation-wide period of “social isolation’’ (or self-isolation). This requires staying at home for a maximum period of time and...
Covid-19 and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia
While each Southeast Asian country has taken various responses toward the COVID-19 pandemic, a similarity was the need of governments, organizations and even individuals to ensure...
Discursive Control, Thai-Style: The Ministry of Interior and the...
Nearly two months after the deadly COVID-19 virus arrived in Thailand, the Thai government’s initial laidback approach to dealing with the disease quickly changed when a large...
Cambodia: An Optimistic Country Amidst a Global Pandemic
Cambodia’s first confirmed case of Covid-19 was about a month later than the first confirmed case in Wuhan, China. The first case was from a Chinese man who came to visit Cambodia...
Indonesia at a Crossroads amidst Efforts to Contain the...
At the beginning of May, the Indonesian news and social media broke a big news story about 500 workers from the People’s Republic of China who were granted visas amidst the...
The Pandemic in Burma
Though Burma shares a long border with China, state authorities initially claimed there was not one case of COVID-19 in the country. Some earnestly, but naively, attributed this...
Locked-in, Locked-down: COVID-19 in Laos
Laos was the last ASEAN member state to confirm the presence of COVID-19 within its borders. The Lao Vice Minister of Health announced in a televised press conference on 24 March...
Navigating Solicitudes in the Times of Pandemic
On Saturday 26 April, the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER) sent congratulatory notes to Malaysian frontliners in the COVID-19 battle and proclaimed that Malaysia...
South Korea: Openness, Transparency and Solidarity Coping with...
100 days have passed since the first positive case of COVID-19 was confirmed on 20 January, 2020, in South Korea. As of this writing (27 April, 2020), the accumulative cases that...
Witness to the Pandemic in Yangon
Monday, 20 April, 2020, Yangon came out of a ten-day stay-at-home order that just happened to coincide with the Thingyan (Buddhist New Year) holiday. Businesses would largely be...
COVID-19 & Myanmar
After the announcement from the Burmese Ministry of Health and Sports on 23 March 2020 that the first COVID-19 patient has been found in Myanmar, many changes occured in Myanmar’s...
Corona Chronicles: Voices from the Field
In late December 2019, the Coronavirus (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2), was identified. In early January 2020, the World...