Bloomberg Thailand may ease its partial national lockdown starting from early May in provinces that are free of novel coronavirus infections. Only provinces clear of the pathogen for two weeks would be eligible, Kamnuan Ungchusak, an adviser to the nation’s health minister, told reporters. The proposal will undergo further evaluation, he said. The Asian nation is under a state of ...

Bloomberg Visitors to Japan in March slumped to levels not seen since Japan’s economic heyday in the 1980s after the coronavirus pandemic shut down global travel, an early sign the impact the drop will have on retailers that thrived on tourist spending. Visitors in March fell 93% from a year earlier to 193,700 people, the steepest drop on record, figures ...

Bloomberg Indonesia is hiring tankers to store refined fuels at sea as it seeks to take advantage of plunging prices of oil products such as gasoline and diesel. State-owned PT Pertamina has provisionally chartered at least three long-range tankers to store clean fuels, said people with knowledge of the matter. The move comes as Indonesia, one of Asia’s biggest refined ...