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Asian Insider Apr 2020 Lowres.Pdf Outbreak in Asia Aviation gloom doom Working from home MCI(P) 053/04/2020 April 2020 Pandemic HOW LONG? HOW BAD? Countries face major health, economic and financial battles as the viral bug continues to infect. What lies ahead and will we manage to flatten the curve? WE BRING YOU SINGAPORE AND THE WORLD UP TO DATE IN THE KNOW News | Live blog | Mobile pushes Web specials | Newsletters | Microsites WhatsApp | SMS Special Features IN THE LOOP ON THE WATCH Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Videos | FB live | Live streams To subscribe to the free newsletters, go to str.sg/newsletters All newsletters connect you to stories on our straitstimes.com website. Letter from the Editor-in-Chief Stay in the know on the latest in Asia with ST Asian Insider Hello everyone, It is what has earned us a reputation for reporting and interpreting developments in an I hope you are all keeping well, and striving to objective and insightful manner to allow readers stay healthy and positive in these very grim to make sense of a fast-changing region and what times. this means to them. In the span of a few long weeks, the world The ST Asian Insider magazine takes over as we knew it and most of the bold projections from the ST Asia Report title published over the about what lies ahead have been upended. past three years. If you’ve been an avid reader We, at The Straits Times, have been working of the latter, we thank you for your support and in a virtual fashion for a couple of months now promise you more in-depth content in coming to keep our readers informed on top stories in issues. Singapore, Asia and the rest of the world, on a The rebranding of the magazine is part of our 24/7 basis. consolidation efforts to bring to you the best of The pandemic has made it apparent that we our Asia content under one title. live in an interconnected world and knowing Do subscribe to the ST Asian Insider what’s happening beyond borders is crucial for newsletter and catch our videos and podcasts everyone’s well-being. too. You can get our posts on Facebook by signing The ST Asian Insider is our effort to keep you up here: www.facebook.com/STAsianInsider/ updated on news that matters in Asia. Write to us at [email protected] to Through this title, we bring you independent, share your feedback, suggestions and views. insider insights on Asia through our vast network We want to hear from you. of overseas correspondents and veteran writers, Take care, everyone, and stay well. Thank you who have been following the region for decades. for following our work. We have been building this network of staff over the years – from Malaysia, Indonesia, Best regards Thailand and the Indochina region in South-east Asia; to China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea in East Asia; and India in South Asia. Together with them, we have a team of correspondents and contributors stationed in Warren Fernandez the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Editor-in-Chief Australia to give you a complete perspective on The Straits Times happenings in this region. & SPH’s English, Malay and Tamil Media Group 1 Warren Fernandez Editor-in-Chief, The Straits Times & SPH’s English, Malay and Tamil Media (EMTM) Group Sumiko Tan Executive Editor, The Straits Times Dominic Nathan Managing Editor, EMTM Tan Ooi Boon Senior Vice-President, EMTM Paul Jacob Associate Editor, The Straits Times Eugene Leow Head, Digital Strategy, EMTM Irene Ngoo Vice-President (Editorial Projects Unit) EMTM Jeremy Au Yong Foreign Editor Shefali Rekhi Asia News Network Editor, The Straits Times & Editor, ST Asian Insider DESIGN Peter Williams Head, Visual, EMTM & Art Editor, The Straits Times Marlone Rubio Executive Artist Gareth Chung Senior Executive Artist Country Report Anil Kumar Graphic Artist Malaysia’s stay-home order leaves many too close for safety EDITORIAL DESK Ronald Kow PHOTO: REUTERS Sub-editor, The Straits Times 32 Dominique Nelson Journalist, The Straits Times CIRCULATION Cover Story Aviation gloom doom Eric Ng Lessons already learnt, Most airlines could become Head, Circulation Marketing and more to come bankrupt before June is here Tommy Ong 4 18 Senior Manager (Circulation) Grappling with a triple whammy REACH OUT TO US: global crisis For advertising enquiries: Country Report Mandy Wong Head - Customer Action It’s not just an economic crisis China’s coronavirus mission – Teams/Jobs – it’s a war 22 helping others and healing its [email protected] own image Circulation & subscription: Sofia Wang Coronavirus cases to rise as Executive [email protected] more overseas Singaporeans return home WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK AND VIEWS Daily wage workers in India Letters can be sent to brave long walk home [email protected] Published by ‘Crazy Zumba aunties’ among The Straits Times, Singapore growing number of cluster Press Holdings (SPH) infections in South Korea Printed by Times Printers Private Limited All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. Cover photo NEO2 XIAOBIN 34 contents Country Report Indonesia rolls out new regulations to step up fight against Covid-19 outbreak PHOTO: REUTERS Spotlight Lifestyle Rich and powerful not spared High-fliers say working from 38 49 home can be productive Special Report Big Picture Tapping the Samurai spirit to New badges of honour for 40 change Fukushima’s image 52 S. Korean nurses Fukushima stakes future on renewables Climate Change ‘Tipping points’ of rapid and 45 irreversible climate change 3 Cover Story Lessons already learnt, and more to come Oh, the irony: Humans are now captive to dislocation and fear from an animal-linked virus. What lies ahead for the world – and especially Asia, which is no stranger to contagion? ONE DAY, 2020 WILL PROBABLY COME TO BE has sickened more than 850,000 people and taken RAVI VELLOOR known as the year the animals got their revenge more than 40,000 lives, as of March 31. Frighteningly, and put humans in cages. the numbers have begun rising in Africa, itself just Associate Editor How else to describe the plight of the elderly emerging from a long battle with Ebola. woman in Italy – now the nation that has logged the most coronavirus deaths – who could only watch OUT OF ASIA as her dead husband’s body was taken away for a History’s wheels move in circles. funeral she was not allowed to attend because of In the past quarter-century, the world was first the strict quarantine orders placed on her? forced to take notice of a contagion emanating from Or the family near New York where three of the Asia with the onset of the Asian financial crisis, seven who caught the virus died and the others live often called the East Asian flu. on, wondering if the only reason the doors would [email protected] Just as now, its origin lay in China, when it open for them is for another householder to be devalued its currency sharply in 1994, cutting the released into Death’s sly hands? competitiveness of exports from Japan to Thailand. The world has been turned upside down by a Like a boxer rocked on his feet, the rest of virus that scientists say made a leap from bats to East Asia staggered around for a couple of years. humans. Our dogs, cats, roosters – and if you are Speculators began attacking Asian assets. By July in India, cows – roam free while their owners are 1997, the Thai baht collapsed and in no time, the captives to disease, dislocations and fear. Asian flu had swept through the region, toppling the From Japan to Italy, Britain and the United States, Indonesian regime and devastating the Thai, South the developed world is a sea of confusion, while Korean, Malaysian and Indonesian economies. some days it looks as though it is the developing Then in 2002, the severe acute respiratory world that is doing a better job at keeping a clear syndrome, or Sars, began to afflict people in head. Guangdong. Thought to be an animal virus, it New York Governor Andrew Cuomo painted was identified in 2003. This time it was not a the best description of what is going on. At a press metaphorical flu and was deadly while it lasted. conference televised live by CNN on March 17 night Then came another respiratory illness new to in Asia, he likened the situation to the snow globes humans. This time, it originated in West Asia. you had as a child: Touch one part of it and the Middle East respiratory syndrome was first reported whole image fuzzes over. in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and has since spread to Not a continent has been unaffected. The disease several other countries, including the US. 4 AsianInsider April 2020 An employee wearing a face mask working on an assembly line at a motor vehicle plant of Dongfeng Honda in Wuhan, Hubei. The coronavirus has crushed the Chinese economy, says the writer, with new bond defaults in China reportedly topping US$1 billion (S$1.4 billion). PHOTO: AFP Millennials in London and New York, confident they will live forever and cheered by early reports that the very young and the old are In some respects, Covid-19, as we have come from coming home despite its strident nationalism. most vulnerable, to know the coronavirus currently tormenting us, It has good reason to do so; the country has less had partied is all of the above and possibly far more durable.
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