Reuters
Asia-Pacific economies are racing to develop home-grown Covid-19 vaccines as supply shortages threaten to upend containment efforts and prolong the pandemic.
Japan, South Korea, India, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam are all betting on multiple locally developed vaccine candidates after struggling to secure adequate supplies of shots from overseas.
Although locally developed vaccines are unlikely to arrive in time to save sluggish vaccine roll-outs, authorities and scientific experts regard the approach as a longer-term investment.
Many experts expect Covid-19 to circulate indefinitely. It means the emergence of variants resistant to existing vaccines and the potential need for booster shots to maintain immunity could fuel vaccine demand for years to come.
BMKG, LIPI develop precursor system for earthquakes over 6.5 M 1 hour ago
BMKG logo (ANTARA/HO) Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) are jointly developing a precursor system to detect earthquakes having a magnitude above 6.5. Starting in 2021, a joint research is being carried out by BMKG and LIPI to study earthquake precursors, focusing on earthquakes that have the potential to cause damages, Rahmad Triyono, Head of the Center for Seismology, Potential Geophysical Engineering and Time Signs of BMKG,, said in a statement here on Sunday.
Triyono explained that the research is to upgrade precursors owned by BMKG and to make them better.
Primeval roads charted by spice carriers 1 hour ago
Spice route (ANTARA/HO-dok pri) Another language of luxury taste also becomes an addiction that sometimes makes humans lose their minds.
In pursuit of this, the Romans, at the start of the reign of Emperor Octavian Augustus, around 27 BC, spent a hundred million sestertius annually to import pepper, other spices, pearls, and silk from China as well as perfume from the East.
Hundreds of merchant ships sailed from Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire, to the ports of India and East Africa. They scoured the Mediterranean Sea to cross the Necho Canal from the Nile River to the Red Sea that led them to Aden Bay at the southern edge of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Singapore: West Papua community leaders want the Indonesian government to stop calling armed separatists “terrorists” amid fears the tag leaves security forces “free to shoot anyone”.
Joko Widodo’s government launched a manhunt for pro-independence fighters last month, deploying hundreds of troops to its contested easternmost territory after Indonesia’s intelligence chief was killed in an ambush on April 25.
The latest conflict has come with West Papua’s special autonomy status due to expire this year, sparking fresh calls for independence.
Papuan activists with their face painted in the colours of the separatist Morning Star flag rally in Jakarta last year.
LIPI developing geodiversity zone in Central Java s Karangsambung
2nd June 2021 6 hours ago
LIPI’s deputy for earth sciences, Prof. Ocky Karna Radjasa. Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) is developing a geodiversity zone in Karangsambung, Kebumen district, Central Java province using SBSN (State Sharia Securities) financing of Rp145 billion. In this zone, three buildings will be built, namely a geodiversity building, a geoconservation building, and a dormitory building, LIPI s deputy for earth sciences, Prof. Ocky Karna Radjasa, said at a national webinar on ‘Geodiversity Builds the Nation’, originating from here on Thursday.
Construction on the project began in 2020 and is expected to be complete in 2021, or within 400 working days, he informed.