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The Philippines posted its fastest inflation rate in over two years last February, racing to 4.7 percent on higher pork prices, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday. The surge is the fastest since the 5.1 percent in December 2018 but slower than the 4.8-percent projected by economists surveyed by The Manila Times. The year-to-date consumer price growth averaged 4.5 percent, surpassing the central bank’s 2- to 4-percent range for 2021. In a briefing, National Statistician Claire Dennis Mapa said inflation was boosted by the 6.7-percent growth in the heavily weighted food and nonalcoholic beverages sector, which was faster than the 6.1 percent in January. Meat prices climbed by 20.7 percent in February from 17.1 percent in January, Mapa said. A kilo of pork meat with bones in Metro Manila slid to P299 in February, from the P338 the month before. A kilo of pork with pure meat dropped to P323 in February from the P368 in January. In areas outside Metro ... » Learn More about February inflation highest in 2 years

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said 112 of the new cases came from the southwestern city of Gwangju, where more than 100 have so far been linked to a missionary training school. An affiliated facility in the central city of Daejeon has been linked to more than 170 infections. The Seoul metropolitan area reported nearly 300 cases. South Korea has repeatedly seen big clusters emerge from religious groups, including more than 5,000 linked to the secretive Shincheonji Church of Jesus that drove a major outbreak last spring. The figures released by the agency on Wednesday brought the national caseload to 76,429, including 1,378 deaths. Elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region, health officials in New Zealand say all the close contacts of a woman who caught the coronavirus have tested negative, as fears of an outbreak ease. The woman became infected from another traveller just before leaving quarantine after returning from Europe. Several people have ... » Learn More about South Korea adds 559 cases, highest in 10 days

Silom Road, Bangkok’s nightlife district, is the most expensive area to buy land in Bangkok, followed by Phloen Chit Road, according to data the Treasury Department gathered from 2016-2019. The pandemic may have fluctuated the prices, but no data on land value for 2020 has been reported by the department. They also say only asking prices were recorded, so it’s unclear how much the price decreased by during negotiations. On Silom Road, land prices per square wa are up to 1 million baht while land on Phloen Chit Road have been reported to cost up to 900,000 per square wa. A square wa is about 4 square metres. Land on Rajadamri Road ranges from 750,000 baht to 900,000 baht per square wa. The cheapest areas to buy land in Bangkok are farmlands in the Bangkhuntian district. Land prices range from 500 baht to 10,000 baht per square wa. Properties on Silom Road are also the most expensive in Bangkok. The price for a 170 square wa 4 storey office on the road costs around 155 million baht, ... » Learn More about Silom Road tops as the most expensive area to buy land in Bangkok

The mad scramble for vaccines is the incident where the reality about moralizing and hypocrisy by Western powers is clearly demonstrated along with the bias of some media and headline grabbing politicians in the Philippines, who are a major source of rumors and fear and cause of the delays in acceptance of vaccination by our countrymen. What should our countrymen know that these media and politicians hide? First of all, stop all the chatter; the people should get vaccinated. Let’s save ourselves. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently deplored that 10 high income countries have administered 75 percent of all vaccines, while over 130 countries had not received a single dose.  Duke University had studied that contracts show the European Union had more than enough to inoculate its population two times, and Canada and the United Kingdom by five times.  The United States, which had procured almost a quarter of the world’s supply at the time covering its population ... » Learn More about Critics, rumors and fear delay recovery; Sinovac helps start optimism

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a timely demonstration of the extent to which digital technology could become fully entrenched in a city, as a means to support public health precautions and maintain effective infection control. Sensor connectivity and the Internet of Things (IoT) have been used to facilitate the screening for and tracking of infections while also enabling the delivery of contactless services in the new normal of people’s daily lives. Thailand has successfully implemented a smart tracking system called “Thai Chana”, which allows residents to check in and out when visiting public spaces. By tracking people’s visits to public places, the system is able to recommend a test and/or quarantine via a notification to users who visited that specific place, at the same time as a person who was later found to be infected. As the latest ICT technologies and next-generation data platforms become realities, Thailand and its fellow ASEAN members remain committed to enhancing ... » Learn More about SMART CITY: THE WORLD OF OUR MAKING

The government is considering the simultaneous rollouts of the coronavirus vaccines of Sinovac and AstraZeneca to head off the growing threat of the virus’ new mutations. Speaking to reporters following the arrival of the first batch of AstraZeneca’s AZD1222 last Thursday, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said the government might begin deploying the vaccine to hospitals nationwide on Friday once immunization experts submit their recommendation on how to allocate the doses. “Ang ating timeline, ‘yung Sinovac matapos po natin ‘yung deployment this coming seven to 10 days and then pagsasabayin po namin ‘yan (Our timeline is to finish the deployment of Sinovac in the next seven to 10 days and then we will have a simultaneous deployment for AstraZeneca),” Galvez said. The shipment of 500,000 AZD1222 doses was donated by the global vaccine-sharing The Philippines has also purchased 17 million doses of AZD1222, with the help of private firms and local government units. Delivery is ... » Learn More about Govt races to beat variants, mutations

GENEVA: The World Trade Organization faces calls led by India and South Africa to waive intellectual property (IP) rights for Covid-19 vaccines — a notion fiercely rejected by pharmaceutical giants and their host countries. The WTO will thrash out the divisive issue at its general council meeting on Monday and Tuesday as its new head Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala takes up her post. Some countries see the waiver as a shortcut to ending the novel coronavirus that has hobbled the global economy. The big idea The text proposes a temporary exemption from certain obligations under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (Trips), so that any country can produce vaccines without worrying about patents. The waiver would also cover “industrial designs, copyright and protection of undisclosed information,” and would last “until widespread vaccination is in place globally, and the majority of the world’s population has developed immunity.” All those in favor ... » Learn More about Waiver war at WTO over Covid jab IP rights

Their faces were obviously worried about this historic day in Myanmar. At around 7am a group of medical staff wearing PPE suits waited to greet them inside the hospital.As the doctors and nurses entered, the PPE-wearing security guards checked everyone’s temperatures and waved each of them in. “This is going to be a historical day for the hospital, and for ourselves, as we administer the first vaccinations in Yangon,” said Dr Tun Myint, Deputy Director General of the region's Public Health Department. The first injection of Yangon wasn't randomly selected, but chosen according to the booking list. Of average weight and height 57-year-old head nurse Daw Thet Thet Thein rolled up her sleeves, and awaited the doctor’s instructions. She received Yangon’s first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Before receiving the shot Daw Thet Thet Thein had her oxygen levels and blood pressure checked. She looked nervous as Chief Minister Phyo Min Thein and regional minister for ... » Learn More about Yangon’s COVID-19 vaccination warriors

Britain is the fifth country in the world to record 100,000 virus-related deaths, after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, and by far the smallest. The US has recorded more than 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, the world's highest total, but its population of about 330 million is about five times Britain's. The health department said 100,162 people have died after testing positive, including 1,631 new deaths reported Tuesday. "It's hard to compute the sorrow contained in that grim statistic," a sombre Prime Minister Boris Johnson said at a televised news conference. The UK toll is more than twice as many people as were killed by German bombs in Britain in the 1940-41 Blitz, and 30,000 more than the total number of British civilians killed during the six years of World War II. The first confirmed British victim of the virus was Peter Attwood, an 84-year-old retiree who died on January 30, 2020 — though the cause was not recorded as COVID-19 until months later. ... » Learn More about UK passes 100,000 coronavirus deaths as outbreak still rages

The past year is one that few of us will forget. While the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have played out unevenly across Asia and the Pacific, the region has been spared many of the worst effects seen in other parts of the world. The pandemic has reminded us that a reliable and uninterrupted energy supply is critical to managing this crisis. Beyond ensuring that hospitals and healthcare facilities continue to function, energy supports the systems and coping mechanisms we rely on to work remotely, undertake distance learning and communicate essential health information. Importantly, energy will also underpin cold chains and logistics to ensure that billions of vaccines make their way to the people who need them most. The good news is our region’s energy systems have continued to function throughout the pandemic. A new report “Shaping a sustainable energy future in Asia and the Pacific:  A greener, more resilient and inclusive energy system” released today by the United Nations ... » Learn More about Sustainable energy key to COVID-19 recovery in Asia and the Pacific