S1E17: Why Malaysia is allowing interstate travel, despite recent surge of Covid-19 cases: Regional Round-up Ep 17

Sep 29, 2021

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Regional Round-up Ep 17: Why Malaysia is allowing interstate travel, despite recent surge of Covid-19 cases?

10:43 mins

Synopsis: Every week, The Straits Times analyses South-east Asia's top news developments.

The Straits Times' regional correspondent Leslie Lopez chats with Money FM's Elliott Danker and Bharati Jagdish about the following points:

Why is inter-state travel to be allowed from October despite Malaysia's Covid-19 high number of cases? (2:40)
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo's budget of 2714 trillion rupiah approved by Parliament (4:24)
70,000 homes inundated and 6 killed by floods caused by tropical storm, Dianmu in Thailand (6:33)
Phillippines' President Rodrigo Duterte to roll out vaccination programmes for the public from October (8:20)

Produced by: The Breakfast Huddle, Money FM 89.3, Fa'izah Sani

Edited by: Dan Koh

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