18+ hour, 24+ min ago   (755+ words) Children accounted for around 20 percent of all wildfire-related respiratory illnesses as 12.5 million people in seven provinces were affected by the widespread forest and land fire, according to the Health Ministry. View all posts by Yvette Tanamal → JAKARTA – Spreading forest and…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1006+ words) The highly infectious, vaccine-preventable disease has escalated into a severe public health and economic crisis. Since March 15, more than 187,000 people—most of them children—have developed measles or measles-like symptoms. View all posts by Tuhin Shubhra Adhikary → DHAKA – Roman Pathan…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (830+ words) View all posts by The Jakarta Post → JAKARTA – A 16-year-old student in Karo regency, North Sumatra, has suffered memory loss, seizures and difficulty speaking after falling ill in a mass food poisoning incident linked to the government’s free nutritious meal…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (748+ words) View all posts by Andrea Gregorio and Gillian Villanueva → MANILA – Transboundary haze from the forest fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia, may persist in parts of the Philippines until Thursday as the prevailing southwest monsoon or “habagat” causes smoke to reach several…...

3+ week, 19+ hour ago   (205+ words) HO CHI MINH – Police in HCM City have rescued a South Korean man who jumped into a river in an apparent suicide attempt, authorities said on Saturday. At around 1am on Friday, officers from Nhà Bè Commune Police were patrolling the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (658+ words) View all posts by Gembong Hanung → JAKARTA – Indonesia is seeing a sharp increase in respiratory illnesses as a prolonged dry season fuels widespread land and forest fires, with health facilities in parts of Kalimantan and Sumatra reporting thousands of additional…...