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KIMPTON MAA-LAI BANGKOK ACHIEVES HEALTH SECURITY VERIFICATION FROM SHARECARE AND FORBES TRAVEL GUIDE Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok has become Sharecare Health Security VERIFIED™ with Forbes Travel Guide. The comprehensive facility verification helps ensure that guests and travel planners can book with confidence at properties that have appropriate health safety procedures in place. This verification comes with an easily identifiable “seal of approval” – the Sharecare VERIFIED™ with Forbes Travel Guide badge – based on a hotel’s compliance with expert-validated best practices that minimise the risk and impact of COVID-19 and potential future public health events. "As we navigate the new normal together, the pandemic has enabled us to hit the reset button and make sure that we are consistently challenging ourselves to attain new levels of cleanliness in our hotel; first and foremost, with the IHG Clean Promise and now with the luxury affiliation that is Forbes,” said Patrick Both, ... » Learn More about KIMPTON MAA-LAI BANGKOK ACHIEVES HEALTH SECURITY VERIFICATION

SINGAPORE - A cyber security label similar to the energy efficiency labels on home appliances will be rolled out to help buyers of smart devices better judge how exposed they are to cyber risks. This label will be stuck on Wi-Fi routers and smart home hubs, for starters, as part of Singapore's new Safer Cyberspace Masterplan designed to protect consumers and small firms. The labelling scheme will be extended to more of these so-called Internet of Things (IoT) or connected devices to help users, who are often unaware of their security risks. Announced by Singapore's Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information (MCI) Janil Puthucheary in Parliament on Tuesday (March 2), the initiative aims to address this "growing area of concern". "The scheme will raise consumer awareness of more secure products and aims to encourage manufacturers to adopt additional cyber security safeguards," said Dr Janil during the debate on MCI's budget. To be launched later this year, the ... » Learn More about Parliament: New cyber security label for smart devices

Vaccine czar and chief implementer of the National Task Force Against Covid-19 Carlito Galvez Jr. renewed the call for the passage of a law that would modernize the country’s health care system against future pandemics. “We have to dedicate our minds, we are really heading to health sufficiency for the next pandemic. I believe the universal health care that we have promoted and enacted is not enough; we have to work toward the Health Security Act or maybe the DoH (Department of Health) modernization program in order for us to fully bridge the valley of death,” Galvez said. Quezon City Rep. Angelina Tan said such a law was already in the works. “We have already passed a bill called the National Health Security Act. Kindly help us to lobby and push that bill in the Senate, sir,” Tan told Galvez. Tan, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Health was referring to the merged version of House Bill 6493 and House Bill 6081 filed by Tan and Muntinlupa Rep. Rozzano ... » Learn More about Galvez wants overhaul of PH health care system

“EVERYONE is trying to apply the human rights lens. But unfortunately, on key matters of equity, many communities right now are in the rear-view mirror and not being observed through the lens of equity and human rights,” said Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization health emergencies program. “This pandemic is uneven around the world and uneven in its impact. It has peeled away the bandages from old wounds of our society, and it has also revealed and driven new inequities. We are not doing a good job in ensuring that the basic human rights approaches are being upheld — right to access health and right to personal dignity. In some cases, Covid-19 has been used as a means of denying people their rights. Yes, we have seen great examples of community resilience and people and civil society organizations coming together in solidarity to fight this epidemic. But if we are to give grades on how we are doing in leaving no one behind right now, we get an F,” ... » Learn More about Unless we end inequities, we will fail to achieve Health for All

Having an insurance plan that covers the cost of mental health treatments can encourage those suffering to seek help. Here’s what insurance companies are doing to reduce stigma and provide coverage. Mental health issues are a growing problem for Singapore, with suicide continuing to be the leading cause of death for those aged 10 to 29 years old in 2019. Mental health illnesses can include depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, Schizophrenia and more. [[nid:507847]] The effects of Covid-19 have only exacerbated the problem. During the circuit breaker period in April and May 2020, calls to the suicide prevention agency Samaritans of Singapore (SOS) hotline rose 30-35 per cent from a year ago. Experts are also predicting a long-tail effect of Covid-19 on mental health due to rising stress levels with the uncertainty of the pandemic as well as the adverse economic effects we are seeing today. However, this problem isn’t going ignored ... » Learn More about Mental health insurance: What insurers are covering

SEOUL: Nuclear-armed North Korea accused the UN Security Council of double standards Monday ahead of a meeting on its latest missile test. Pyongyang last week launched two weapons assessed by the US and others to be short-range ballistic missiles, which it is banned from under Security Council resolutions. It was the first substantive provocation since the new US administration of President Joe Biden took office, which is in the final stages of a review on policy towards the North. Biden warned the isolated state that “there will be responses if they choose to escalate,” while European members of the Security Council requested an urgent meeting Tuesday to discuss the launch. In a statement carried by the North’s official KCNA news agency, senior foreign ministry official Jo Chol Su said the test was of a new “tactical guided missile.” “Many other countries across the globe are firing all kinds of projectiles,” he said, warning that a “double standard” by the Security Council ... » Learn More about NKorea accuses UN of double standards

THE World Health Organization (WHO) views the increasing number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in the Philippines as “concerning” and urges the government to continue improving its health care capacity. Speaking during a virtual press conference in celebration of World Health Day on Wednesday, WHO Western Pacific Regional Director Dr. Takeshi Kasai noted that the Covid surge was inching toward the “red line.” “We know that once we cross the ‘red line’, we put the health care workers in a difficult situation, and once health care workers get [the] infection, the health care capacity goes down,” Kasai said. There were many factors for the surge, chief of which is the emergence of the variants of concern, such as the B117, B1351 and the P1 variants as well as the P3 variant first discovered in Central Visayas, he said. Kasai also noted the half-hearted compliance with minimum health standards, such as wearing of masks and face shields and physical distancing. He ... » Learn More about PH health capacity nears red line – WHO

Positioning Thailand as a regional health security hub. For the past 50 years, The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PReMA) has been promoting health innovations to improve the quality of life of Thais and will continue in the coming years to collaborate with the public and private sectors to bring advancements to Thailand to make the nation a regional health security hub. To underscore its commitment, PReMA hosted a seminar on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, “50 Years of Health Innovations: Partnership for Regional Health Security” to inspire ideas, strengthen collaborative networks, and further support the development of innovative medicines and treatments, raising the bar for Thailand’s health security. H.E. Anutin Charnvirakul, Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Public Health, presided over and shared his opening remarks at the ceremony. The seminar provided an opportunity to share information, knowledge, technologies, and innovations among ... » Learn More about PReMA Joins with public-private sectors to promote health innovations

KUALA LUMPUR: The Securities Commission Malaysia’s (SC) Audit Oversight Board (AOB) has imposed a monetary penalty on a former Ernst and Young (E&Y) PLT partner for failing to comply with requirements of the International Standards on Auditing when auditing a public interest entity. In a statement today, SC said Sandra Segaran [email protected] was slapped with RM47,500 penalty following an appeal filed by Sandra to the SC. "Sandra had failed to perform audit procedures to support the basis of the audit opinion for the audit engagement in the area of property, plant and equipment,” the SC said, adding that he had also performed insufficient audit procedures in the area of loans and borrowings, as well as group consolidation. - Bernama ... » Learn More about SC imposes penalty on former EY partner for failure to comply with auditing standard

SINGAPORE - Those who abuse and harass private security officers carrying out their work could be liable under new offences that the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is looking into instituting. MHA said it intends to better protect private security officers from harassment or abuse, and is looking at amending the Private Security Industry Act in 2021. In a statement on Friday (March 27), MHA said private security officers play an important role in ensuring the safety and security of the premises to which they are deployed. "However, during the course of their work, they can face verbal and sometimes physical abuse. MHA takes a serious view of the harassment and abuse of private security officers," said the ministry. The move comes in response to several highly publicised reports of security officers being abused last year, and after much lobbying by security associations and unions to better protect them. Outrage was sparked last Deepavali, when a condominium resident was ... » Learn More about MHA to get tough on abuse of security officers; changes to the assessment of security companies