On 7 May 2020, President Joko Widodo (hereafter Jokowi) stated that people must make peace with COVID-19, while justifying the country’s choice of not imposing lockdown (Tempo...
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Vaccine inequality in the Philippines: How the pandemic and...
A year has passed since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Philippines and recovery is still nowhere near in sight.
Epidemias en América Latina y la Cloroquina en Brasil en...
Algunos estudios históricos sobre las epidemias Latinoamericanas durante el siglo XX han analizado el legado de las respuestas oficiales y son importantes para entender las...
Epidemics in Latin America and Chloroquine in Brazil in...
Some historical studies on Latin American epidemics during the 20th century have analyzed the legacy of official responses and are important to offer an understanding of the...
People to people: Covid-19 and Reimagining Solidarity Among the...
The implementation of large-scale social restriction (Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar, PSBB) in Indonesia has put the working class in a more precarious condition. Moreover...
Philippines TV Network Shutdown as a COVID-19 “Teleserye”
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines compelled broadcasting to radically downscale its operations. Days before the Philippine state’s “enhanced community quarantine” (the...
Observations and Reflections on COVID-19 in Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste’s first positive case was discovered on 21 March, 2020, triggering fear and panic in the population. This consequently led to the fast approval of a state of emergency...
Opening a COVID-free “Fortress”: Bohol’s Experience
Confining ourselves to a “COVID-free” island seems to be the safest way to live in a pandemic world. Bohol, the island province in Central Visayas, managed to remain COVID-free...
COVID-19 in Singapore: Confronting the truth of Intertwined...
The Singapore government’s famed bureaucratic efficiency was in full display in January 2020 when, even before the first local COVID-19 infection was detected, a multi-agency task...
Amid the Pandemic, a Killing, Arrests and Crackdown on Freedom
On our eighth week of lockdown in Metro Manila, the killing of a man who supposedly attempted to breach a checkpoint, and the government clamping down on netizens for their social...
Two Prayuths Dilemma and COVID-19 in Thailand
The COVID-19 Thailand is the miniature caricature of Thai politics. When it comes to choices of governance, Thais face a dilemma of two evils: the electorate party and the...
Power in the Time of Covid-19: Notes & Reflections on the...
The Malaysian government enforced the Movement Control Order (hereafter, ‘MCO’, being the form of nation-wide ‘lockdown’ as it is known locally) beginning from the 18th of March...
COVID-19 Prevention and Society: A View from Northern Mindanao
At the time of this writing, on 3 June 2020, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection has reached 6.4 million, with over 378,000 deaths around the world (John Hopkins...
Duterte’s COVID-19 Powers and the Paradox of the Philippine...
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the Philippines and the rest of the world, President Rodrigo R. Duterte has threatened to impose martial law to instill discipline...
Living in the Time of the Virus: A Note from Thailand
On paper, the situation in Thailand isn’t as severe as many of our Southeast Asian neighbors. As of April 28, the number of patients infected with coronavirus stands just below...
Covid-19 in Peru
Peru noted its first case of covid-19 on March 6, 2020, when a pilot for LATAM airlines returned from his vacation in Spain. Once this situation was known, “patient zero” was...
Covid-19. El caso del Perú
En el Perú el primer caso de covid-19 se registró el 6 de marzo del año 2020, un piloto de LATAM que volvía de sus vacaciones en España. Una vez conocida esta situación el...
From Rice ATMs to Giving a Helping Hand
Vietnam has 265 cases of the novel coronavirus and zero deaths, numbers that are significantly lower than the rest of the world. But still, to prevent further spread, the...
In Times of Corona
By the end of December 2019, Myanmar was overwhelmed with internet news relating to the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Corona Virus COVID-19 in Wuhan, East China...
Year of the Corona Virus : The Best and the Worst of Times
ロドリゴ・ドゥテルテ大統領がメトロマニラの位置するルソン島全域に、強化されたコミュニティ隔離措置（ECQ）を敷いてから１か月が経った。6,300万人の人々（フィリピン人の57％がルソン島に住んでいる）を自宅に閉じ込めたコロナウイルス危機の壊滅的実態が、連日あらゆるメディアによって報じられている。
COVID-19 in Myanmar: Why Didn’t We Prepare?
During what is now the “time of corona,” people have to stay at home stay and have now flocked to online social media, in particular, Facebook. Even Aung San Suu Kyi, the national...