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From a women’s rights perspective, 2020 was supposed to be the year the world would reflect upon all the ways gender equality had advanced in the 25 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a groundbreaking conference that outlined bold feminist strategies to remove barriers to equality. Instead, this year risks witnessing all those gains unravel, say the authors of a new report released Tuesday. “It took a pandemic for the country to see what was already broken,” write the authors of the report titled A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for Canada. COVID-19 has claimed more than half a million lives and affected at least 16 million people around the world. Another serious repercussion is the toll it exacted on the millions of already marginalized without even infecting

WHAUP to see healthier figures in second half SET-listed WHA Utilities and Power (WHAUP) expects to rack up more revenue in the second half after lower earnings in the first six months, when the utilities and water segments were hit by drought. From January to June, revenue dropped 10.7% year-on-year to 834.2 million baht, mainly due to lower utilities sales at industrial estates. "Revenue from water business fell 12.7% year-on-year to 813.6 million baht, while earnings from power plummeted 616% to 20.6 million baht," said WHAUP chief executive Niphon Bundechanan. Unusually low rainfall prompted the government to ask industrial estates to reduce water use by 10%. But the situation improved with the start of the rainy season, and Mr Niphon expects businesses to return to their normal o...

Taiwan to let in Thai business people Passenger jets of Taiwan's China Airlines at Taipei Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, June 8, 2020. (Reuters photo) TAIPEI: Taiwan will from the start of next week ease border controls put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and will allow in business travellers from Thailand and some other lower-risk countries, though they will have to be tested and quarantined. Taiwan has never gone into total lockdown and life has continued largely as normal due to its early and effective prevention work and a first-rate public health system. While it has largely lifted domestic restrictions, Taiwan has been more cautious about opening up its borders, which have been shut to most foreign visitors since mid-March. Taiwan's Central Epidemic Comman...

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Buddhist monks in Thailand and neighbouring Cambodia have altered their rituals during Covid-19 pandemic as many religious rites are being changed or cancelled to limit the spread of virus. As worshippers in the region mark holidays, monks have been forced to change their religious routines. Monks are venturing out from Bangkok's Ladprao temple to collect alms amid the Covid-19 pandemic as fewer of the Buddhist faithful visiting pagodas to make donations, ccording to monk Phra Surasak Suthanto. But other daily rituals, religious rites and holiday celebrations are being adapted, restricted or cancelled for now, Surasak said. "We still receive alms in the morning but we wear face masks. When we give blessings, we have to keep a distance of around a metre or two," he said. In Buddhist-majorit

As Thailand moves to relax restrictions on the people’s movement due to coronavirus pandemic, the ban on the sale of alcohol would come to end soon.The ban has been in effect since April 10 in a bid to discourage social gatherings. "The new order, which will take effect on Sunday, means you can buy and sell liquor, beer, wine. You can buy from restaurants but only as takeaways. You can buy at convenience stores, supermarkets, anywhere in the country," Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam told Reuters. Bangkok Metropolitan Authority spokesman Pongsakorn Kwangmuang also told Reuters the ban would be lifted in Bangkok on Sunday, and that he will make a formal announcement on Saturday. The change came just a day after the government's Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration said the ba