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Thailand- Leading financial analysis firm and bank Kasikorn Research Center, also known as K-research, cut their estimate for tourism revenue for Thailand from 267 billion baht for the first half of 2021 to 137 billion baht earlier this week. K-research was basing their major cut, which covers the first half of this year, due to both an outbreak of Covid-19 in January and a current outbreak of Covid-19 that saw well over a thousand cases today, April 14th, 2021 . The cut is primarily based around domestic tourism although K-research believes that if the current round of infections is not brought under control either through vaccines, test, and trace, or restrictive measures that foreign tourism, which has largely been shut down for a year due to mandatory quarantine, will also be affected. Thailand was previously planning to start cautiously opening up tourism without quarantine later this year to selected tourists. K-research stated that they support procurement of ... » Learn More about Top financial analyst cuts Thailand tourism revenue estimate for first half of 2021 by 130 billion baht

A hotel information blog is claiming that, despite growing Covid-19 numbers, Phuket should stick to its schedule in reopening to travellers without quarantine in July. That’s only 2 and a half months away. In an interview with the Director of Travel and Tourism Consulting at GlobalData, they stressed that while it is crucial to reign in the spread of Covid-19 and the B117 strain now manacing Thailand, the risk must not overshadow the need teo push forward with vaccinations and the march towards eliminating the quarantine by July in order to save the tourism industry and all those dependent on it. “The Phuket pilot program is essential in creating a path towards economic recovery for Thailand, a country heavily dependent on tourism. More than 17% of Thailand’s gross domestic product is attributed to tourism and the Covid-19 pandemic has lead to the worst economic free-fall in over 20 years” The blog acknowledges the inherent risk and possible appearance of foolishness to ... » Learn More about Hotel blog suggests Phuket should push ahead with July reopening despite Covid surge

MANILA, Philippines—Media giant ABS-CBN Corp. is remaking psychological drama Doctor Foster for the Filipino audience after sealing an agreement with British content company BBC Studios. ABS-CBN said in a statement the new television series will be created by ABS-CBN Entertainment and will go into production later this year. “We are most grateful to BBC Studios for entrusting ABS-CBN Entertainment with the Philippine version of Doctor Foster,” ABS-CBN chief operating officer Cory Vidanes said in the statement released on Tuesday (April 13). “It is a privilege for us to be able to produce this highly engaging and relatable story for the Filipino audience,” Vidanes added. Doctor Foster is an award winning series “centred around a trusted doctor whose life implodes when she suspects her husband of having an affair.” The project will be led by Vidanes, ABS-CBN president and CEO Carlo Katigak, ABS-CBN Entertainment production head Laurenti Dyogi and ABS-CBN Dreamscape ... » Learn More about ABS-CBN to remake BBC Studios’ Doctor Foster for PH market

SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUAN, Caqueta, Colombia (Reuters) - The dirt tracks winding through southern Colombia's tangled jungle often mark the beginning of the end for besieged patches of rainforest in this part of the Amazon. Across San Vicente del Caguan, one of the country's most deforested regions, illegal and informal roads fan out in an ever-expanding network, bringing visitors, commercial interests and farmers and ranchers who clear and burn the land. The result is the steady decay of Colombia's Amazon. A Reuters map of the region shows a lattice of lines that crisscross one another and creep southward into the forest and fan out on all sides. (Graphic: https://tmsnrt.rs/329ehRE) The destruction, which is striking on the ground, is significant enough to be visible from the sky. Patches of deforestation appear at the furthest extent of the roads, according to the map, which underlines the impact of unplanned roadbuilding by combining satellite imagery and local ... » Learn More about Road to ruin: informal byways sow seeds of destruction in Colombia’s Amazon

Phuket’s provincial government has issued a 48 page order for non-tourists entering Thailand, via Phuket. The order covers everyone from repatriating Thais, foreigners who are permanent residents or on long-term visas, students, workers passing through and consular visits. In real terms, as it says, anyone who isn’t visiting, or travelling through, Phuket as a tourist. If you were looking for some easing of general restrictions for non-tourist arrivals on the island, you won’t find it here. The order is NOT related to tourists arriving in Phuket or the proposal to open up Phuket for non-quarantine tourism after July. The long-winded order goes through all the requirements of non-tourists in excruciating detail. Nearly all conditions of entry for these non-tourist groups are identical… • Documents must be issued no more than 72 hours prior to arrival • A Covid-19 test shows the traveller is not infected • A Certificate of Entry • Travellers must have a Thai tracking app ... » Learn More about Latest guidelines for all non-tourist visitors to Thailand, through Phuket

“Federalism should be able to maintain unity among all. But this does not mean that we should boycott regional voices and the voices of ethnic groups.” – Khil Raj Regmi PRESENTED during the Hanns Seidel Foundation-initiated Asia Federalism Dialogues was how functional a specific country’s devolution structure responds to a major crisis such as the coronavirus. Country-specific federal governance structures had two countries employing horizontal devolution: Myanmar governs through local to local governments, while Pakistan, provincial to provincial. Nepal’s structure is through collaboration among central, provincial and local governments while Sri Lanka is through collaboration of central, provincial and local with public and private organizations. A sixth structure — the Philippines — governs through its quasi-federal structure which rests on a powerful center. This country specific contexts enabled participants to appreciate the pros and cons of a country’s mode of devolved ... » Learn More about Federalism: Ethnic voices local to local, central to local

SINGAPORE: A new COVID-19 cluster involving four confirmed cases has been identified in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Wednesday (Apr 14) in its daily update. MOH reported 27 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, including one community case, who is part of the new cluster. The sole community case, identified as Case 61917, is linked to three previously reported infections - Cases 61461, 61470 and 61360 . The 44-year-old man is a Papua New Guinea national who arrived from Australia on Mar 25 for a work project in Singapore. The short-term visit pass holder had tested negative for COVID-19 in a pre-departure test taken in Australia on Mar 23, and in an on-arrival test in Singapore. He was in isolation until another COVID-19 test on Mar 27 came back negative. "Subsequently he was on a controlled itinerary, which was largely limited to his place of work and accommodation," said MOH. After being identified as a close contact of two previously ... » Learn More about 1 community case among 27 new COVID-19 infections in Singapore; new cluster formed

BRUSSELS: European Union countries formally agreed on Wednesday (Apr 14) to launch COVID-19 travel passes as a step towards reopening to tourism this summer and will negotiate details with the bloc's lawmakers in May, two diplomatic sources said. The certificates would allow those vaccinated, recovered from COVID-19 or with negative test results to travel more easily in the EU, where restrictions on movement have weighed heavily on the travel and tourist industry for more than a year. The 27 EU member states "underlined their commitment to have the framework ready by the summer of 2021", said a document endorsed by national envoys and seen by Reuters. The European Parliament, which must also agree to the proposal for it to take effect, is due to agree its own position later this month and final talks between the lawmakers, national envoys and the bloc's executive are expected to start in May. READ: WHO does not back COVID-19 vaccination passports for now READ: White ... » Learn More about EU countries move towards COVID-19 passes to reopen summer travel

GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) does not back requiring vaccination passports for travel due to uncertainty over whether inoculation prevents transmission of the virus, as well as equity concerns, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday (Apr 6). "We as WHO are saying at this stage we would not like to see the vaccination passport as a requirement for entry or exit because we are not certain at this stage that the vaccine prevents transmission," WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said. "There are all those other questions, apart from the question of discrimination against the people who are not able to have the vaccine for one reason or another," she told a UN news briefing. The WHO now expects to review China's COVID-19 vaccines Sinopharm and Sinovac for possible emergency use listing around the end of April, Harris said. READ: South Korea to issue blockchain-protected digital COVID-19 'vaccine passports' READ: No role for COVID-19 vaccine certificates in England's ... » Learn More about WHO does not back COVID-19 vaccination passports for now