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Bank Dunia alias World Bank (WB) menilai negara-negara berkembang di Asia Timur dan Pasifik harus menyiapkan diri dengan pelemahan ekonomi akibat penyebaran virus corona (COVID-19). Pandemi ini telah merusak rantai pasok produksi di China dan berdampak bagi ekonomi dunia.

Pandemi virus corona juga berdampak serius pada pengentasan kemiskinan. Dalam laporan itu memproyeksi akan bertambah 11 juta orang di kawasan Asia Timur dan Pasifik.

"Jika situasi ekonomi memburuk, dan skenario lebih rendah yang terjadi, maka jumlah penduduk miskin bertambah sekitar 11 juta orang," tulis laporan Bank Dunia yang dikutip detikcom, Selasa (31/3/2020).

Masih berdasarkan laporan ekonomi Bank Dunia untuk kawasan Asia Timur dan Pasifik, edisi April 2020, laju pertumbuhan ekonomi di negara-negara tersebut melambat menjadi 2,1% di tahun 2020, bahkan dalam skenario terburuknya bisa negatif 0,5%.

"Pertumbuhan negara berkembang di kawasan Asia Timur dan Pasifik untuk tahun 2020 diproyeksikan melambat menjadi 2,1% pada skenario baseline dan menjadi negatif 0,5 untuk skenario lebih rendah, dari perkiraan 5,8% pada 2019," tulisnya

Oleh karena itu, Bank Dunia memberikan enam rekomendasi kepada negara-negara berkembang di Asia Timur dan Pasifik untuk menyelamatkan ekonominya di tengah pandemi virus corona.

Bank Dunia menilai para negara berkembang termasuk Indonesia harus bertindak cepat, kooperatif, untuk mengatasi pelemahan ekonomi dunia. Sebanyak enam rekomendasi ini adalah:

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Black, Asian and Hispanic House caucus chairs unite in 'no tolerance' for coronavirus racism - NBCNews.com

The leaders of the congressional black, Asian and Hispanic caucuses gathered Monday to condemn the racism that the Asian American community is confronting during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The chairs of all three caucuses, as well as leaders of the full Democratic caucus, called for unity at a virtual news conference against increasing attacks against Asian Americans in association with the coronavirus. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, or CAPAC, said about 100 hate incidents a day have been directed toward those in the community, according to data from three hate incident reporting sites.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, chairman of the Democratic Caucus, said before addressing reporters' questions: "In times of crisis, it's important for us all to stand together. It's particularly important for leaders of every race, every religion, every background to raise your voices as we are doing today to make it clear we will not tolerate anti-Asian rhetoric or violence against the community."

Chu said at least 1,000 hate incidents have been reported since the beginning of the pandemic across the online reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate, a separate site led by OCA — Asian Pacific American Advocates and a third initiative spearheaded by Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

Leaders also took a stand against rhetoric that promoted the racist association between the disease and location or ethnicity, including terms like "Chinese virus" and "Wuhan virus," saying it could cause people to misdirect their anger and put Asian Americans in harm's way.

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Previously, President Donald Trump had used the term "Chinese virus" multiple times, both during news conferences and on Twitter. However he abruptly shifted his tone last week, tweeting that "it is very important that we totally protect our Asian American community in the United States, and all around the world." He later said on Fox News that he doesn't regret having used the terminology but "decided we shouldn't make any more of a big deal out of it."

Answering questions from reporters, Chu credited a letter condemning the language, spearheaded by Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs with the involvement of "powerful" Republican and Democratic Asian Americans, for Trump's shift. However, she said, the change was "too little, too late."

"He continues to double down on that term, and his followers continue to double down on that term. What he should do is send a strong message to his followers to not say that. He should start with his task force," Chu said.

"Of course, there are the other people in his party that are in Congress that have continued to use that term, including our minority leader, Kevin McCarthy," she said. "So he should send the message directly to them if he really means what he said when he said 'Asian Americans should not be blamed for the coronavirus.'"

While the caucus chairs condemned the anti-Asian discrimination, they praised a resolution recently introduced by Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., that would condemn all forms of racism and scapegoating and call on public officials to denounce anti-Asian sentiment. The bill drew overwhelming support, with more than 120 co-sponsors.

"I'm so thankful for the fact that it's not only Asian American leaders that are condemning these attacks but leaders from all around the country, from different backgrounds," said Meng, vice chairwoman of CAPAC. "The AAPI community has benefited so much from the struggles and the achievements of the black, Latino and Native American communities."

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Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, reminded listeners that the U.S. has a history of discrimination toward Asian Americans, starting with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The legislation put a 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration and was later extended with the Geary Act.

Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said: "These attacks are nothing new, unfortunately, in the history of our country at different points in time. White supremacy rears its head, and there have been attacks on one of our communities.

"And so, us standing in solidarity today, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus and CAPAC, that amounts to us continuing a historical tradition," she said. "I hope that we don't have to have this historical tradition forever."

Kimmy Yam is a reporter for NBC Asian America.

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In China, international flights have been cut back so severely that Chinese students abroad wonder when they will be able to get home. In Singapore, recently returned citizens must share their phones’ location data with the authorities each day to prove they are sticking to government-ordered quarantines.

In Taiwan, a man who had traveled to Southeast Asia was fined $33,000 for sneaking out to a club when he was supposed to be on lockdown in his home. In Hong Kong, a 13-year-old girl, who was spotted out at a restaurant wearing a tracking bracelet to monitor those in quarantine, was followed, filmed and subsequently shamed online.

Across Asia, countries and cities that seemed to have brought the coronavirus epidemic under control are suddenly tightening their borders and imposing stricter containment measures, fearful about a wave of new infections imported from elsewhere.

The moves portend a worrisome sign for the United States, Europe and the rest of the world still battling a surging outbreak: Any country’s success with containment could be tenuous, and the world could remain on a kind of indefinite lockdown.

Even when the number of new cases starts to fall, travel barriers and bans in many places may persist until a vaccine or treatment is found. The risk otherwise is that the infection could be reintroduced inside their borders, especially given the prevalence of asymptomatic people who might unknowingly carry the virus with them.

Following a recent uptick in cases tied to international travelers, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan barred foreigners from entering altogether in recent days. Japan has barred visitors from most of Europe, and is considering denying entry to travelers from countries including the United States. South Korea imposed stricter controls, requiring incoming foreigners to quarantine in government facilities for 14 days upon arrival.

“Countries have really been struggling to implement their own domestic solutions, and domestic solutions are insufficient for a transnational global health problem,” said Kristi Govella, an assistant professor of Asian studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

“Even countries that have been relatively successful in managing the pandemic are only as safe as the weakest links in the system,” she said, adding that in the absence of cooperation among countries, “closing borders is one of the ways that individual governments can control the situation.”

The virus, which emerged in Asia and spread to the West, is at risk of ricocheting back. Citizens who were worried about outbreaks in Europe and the United States rushed home after finding themselves in the new epicenters of the pandemic.

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Almost immediately, countries and cities in Asia started seeing a rise in new cases, often detecting infected passengers at airports as they passed through health screenings. Hong Kong, which had been reporting new daily cases in the single digits, suddenly saw new cases spike as high as 65 in one day. In Japan, where infections have remained relatively controlled, cases started to rise last month in Tokyo as travelers returned from overseas.

To try to stem the influx of infections, governments clamped down on their borders.

South Korea, which has been praised globally for flattening the curve quickly after an early explosive peak in infections, initially required travelers from some countries to quarantine. This week it expanded the list to cover the entire world.

Japan started by having travelers quarantine, but now bars travelers from most of Europe outright. It is discussing more bans, including for travelers from the United States.

China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan have simply shut their borders to virtually all foreigners.

“We believe that under the current situation of the epidemic, minimizing unnecessary entry and exit activities is a responsible and necessary measure to effectively protect the life, safety and physical health of all Chinese and foreign personnel,” said Liu Haitao, director-general for border control and management of the National Immigration Administration in China.

Even some residents are having a hard time getting home. On mainland China, where leaders are keen to declare the worst of the outbreak that started there over, the new border controls have forced most foreign airlines to cut back to one flight a week. Ticket prices have skyrocketed and bookings are constantly canceled.

Alex Fei, a Chinese student at a university in Canada, has struggled to get back. His flights have been canceled twice — once after Hong Kong banned transfers through the hub, and another time when the airline suspended a direct flight from Vancouver to Shanghai.

Mr. Fei said he might have no choice but to remain in Canada. “Overseas students’ hands are tied for now,” he said.

Citizens who do return to Asia are often put under strict surveillance as they serve out their time in quarantine. In some cases governments are using the tools of criminal justice to enforce them.

Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese city, initially managed to contain its early coronavirus outbreak with swift measures like the closing of schools and government offices and restrictions on travelers from mainland China.

But as students and ex-patriots rushed back from Europe and the United States in March, officials warned that a new wave of imported cases was beginning to strain hospitals. Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, barred all nonresidents on March 19, and returning residents are now tested upon arrival.

During a 14-day quarantine at home, they wear tracking bracelets, and their movements are monitored by a smartphone app. Ms. Lam said that more than 200,000 people were currently being quarantined at home.

Technology is a key tool for enforcing quarantines. In China, returnees spend 14 days in government-assigned hotels and send their temperatures daily to neighborhood committees on WeChat, a messaging service. In Taiwan, the government uses location tracking on mobile phones and adds some old-fashioned police shoe leather; officers visit people at home if they leave or turn off their phones.

Filia Lim, 50, said the quarantine measures in Singapore were a “headache” because she normally travels extensively for her job in human resources. But she said she was “thankful” that Singapore was monitoring returnees so closely.

“The virus spread mostly because people didn’t realize they have the symptoms, or for some they blatantly ignored those symptoms and they interacted with a lot of people despite advice by government to self-isolate themselves,” she said.

Punishment for breaking the rules of quarantine can be stiff. A 53-year-old Singaporean who breached the order had his passport invalidated, the immigration authorities said Sunday.

Japan officially says those who break quarantine can be imprisoned for up to six months or fined as much as 500,000 yen, about $4,600.

But the Japanese government relies on trust that those in quarantine stay cloistered. Upon returning from countries on the banned list, residents sign a pledge stating that they will remain in one place for 14 days and stay off public transit. If they go out for food, they are told to wear a mask and “be quick.”

South Korea has yet to bar entrants from anywhere but the Hubei region of China. Critics say that simply quarantining foreigners may inadvertently put more stress on the medical system.

“Some say that there are people abroad who think they should come to Korea to be tested and treated,” said Dr. Park Jong-hyuk, a family medicine specialist and spokesman for the Korean Medical Association.

Dr. Park has called for a total entry ban on foreigners.

“It is time to make efforts to protect one another on a global level by practicing international social distancing,” he said.

In the immediate term, when governments are still scrambling to protect their citizens, such measures make sense, experts say. But the longer it goes on, the more likely it could do sustained damage to the global economy and the collective psyche.

“Although the first priority should be on definitely trying to control the virus,” said Karen Eggleston, director of the Asia health policy program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, “one has to think about those very large costs, and as the crisis is prolonged, those costs can definitely mount.”

Sean Sierra, 30, a petty officer in the United States Navy stationed at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, said he did not see an end in sight. After a recent posting to a ship based in Singapore, he was required to quarantine at home in Japan for 14 days when he returned.

Although he has completed his stint in isolation, the entire base is now sheltering in place. “We’re going to be stuck here for a bit,” said Petty Officer Sierra. He said that his mother-in-law was scheduled to visit in two weeks but that the quarantine “puts a damper on any plans.”

Reporting was contributed by Su-hyun Lee from Seoul, Hisako Ueno from Tokyo, and Tiffany May and Elaine Yu from Hong Kong. Claire Fu contributed research from Beijing.

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Chen Ng of Centennial was walking his dog near the Southlands mall in metro Denver a few weekends ago when he said he had a scary run-in with a stranger.

“Someone on a skateboard just called me names," he said. The person added, "Go back to where you come from.”

Ng teared up relaying the story.

He thinks President Donald Trump’s insistence on calling the new coronavirus the “Chinese virus” has fueled harassment against people like Ng.

“It’s just not helping, what he said,” Ng said. “Anywhere I go, I just don’t feel comfortable out and about.”

Ng isn’t the only person of Asian descent who has had an experience like this. Some have reported the incidents. The Anti-Defamation League has found more than 48 reports since January of racist threats or harassment towards Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders nationwide. 

In Denver, “We've dealt with two targets of discrimination,” said Scott Levin, the ADL’s mountain states director. “That doesn't include the scores of people that contacted our office in response to the liquor store that was in Louisville.” 

Union Jack Liquor posted a sign outside its store on March 19 with white supremacy messaging and the words “Thanks China” written on it. The liquor store apologized and removed the sign. But Levin said just like derogatory names like the "China virus," the sign in Louisville had already sent a very powerful message. 

“Any of those things do nothing more than to reinforce discrimination,” he said. 

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Alex Nguyen is a student at the University of Colorado Boulder and said they couldn't walk outside their apartment without getting strange looks from people. On the bus, people avoided sitting next to them.

That kind of bias can hurt people like Alex Nguyen, a student at the University of Colorado Boulder, who uses the pronoun "they." They said before the school shut down because of the virus, they couldn’t walk outside their apartment without getting strange looks from people. On the bus, people avoided sitting next to them. 

“It was really painful to just sit there and watch people like, anytime you even just sniffled, for people to just look at you, to just jump and look at you like you were going to give them something,” they said. 

Although they're staying with their parents now and not spending a lot of time outside because of social distancing, Nguyen is still worried about safety if they even cough in front of strangers. 

“I’m kind of scared to go out in public now,” Nguyen said. “I feel like I have to carry a water bottle with me at all times and make sure that my throat is never dry even if I’m just coughing a little bit.”

Colorado’s state historian William Wei said this isn’t the first time Asian people have experienced blatant racism. 

“Asians in Colorado have almost from the get-go experienced persecution," Wei said. "Because people have viewed them with considerable concern because of the so-called threat they seem to pose."

Taken to the extreme, Wei said the persecution can massively violate the civil rights of Asian people living here. Thousands of Japanese and Japanese Americans were held in concentration camps like Amache in southeastern Colorado in the years after Pearl Harbor. Wei said most political leaders learned from that history. 

“It’s a lesson that hasn't necessarily persisted to the present, given Donald Trump's use of that unfortunate term,” Wei said. “Consequently, [the president] has backpedaled and has said that Asian Americans are blameless. And this was belated. It has already, of course, caused considerable damage.”

Levin, with the ADL, said people should report harassment and call out bias and racism when they see it. Wei hopes that when the coronavirus pandemic is over, people will be able to look back with some dignity and unity.

“I hope that they will remember that they had worked together in order to combat this health scourage that is causing so much damage in our community,” he said. 

But for now, Wei is disappointed to see that the kind of harassment that Ng and Nguyen have experienced is still happening.

“We haven’t evolved as much as I had hoped.”

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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Bursa saham Asia pada perdagangan Selasa (31/3/2020) berada di wilayah positif karena kenaikan di bursa Wall Street dan data dari China yang menunjukkan sektor manufaktur Negeri Tirai Bambu bergerak kembali ke ekspansi.

Survei terbaru dari kantor Biro Statistik Nasional China mengatakan bahwa sektor manufaktur di China bergerak kembali ke ekspansi pada bulan Maret, dengan skor PMI manufaktur 52,0 mengalahkan perkiraan untuk 45,0. Angka ini naik tajam dari 35,7 pada Februari, dan bergerak kembali di atas ambang batas 50 yang memisahkan ekspansi dari kontraksi.

Data perdagangan mencatat, Indeks Shanghai Composite China naik 0,11% menjadi 2.750,3, indeks Hang Seng ditutup menguat 1,85% pada 23.603,48, sedangkan FTSE Straits Times Singapore (STI) terapresiasi 2,2% pada 2.468. Saham Korea Selatan juga diperdagangkan naik, dengan indeks Kospi melonjak 2,19% menjadi 1.754,64.

 

 

Saham Jepang berakhir lebih rendah, Indeks Nikkei 225 turun 0.9% menjadi 18.917,01, sementara Indeks Topix yang lebih luas ditutup melemah 2,26% pada 1.403,04. Penurunan Nikkei 225 terseret oleh turunnya saham otomotif dan perbankan, di tengah kekhawatiran yang terus-menerus tentang gangguan yang disebabkan oleh pandemi virus corona. Saham Suzuki Motor kehilangan 7,7%, Nissan Motor turun 7,4%, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group turun 5,4% dan Mizuho Financial Group turun 4,9%.

Di tempat lain, pasar saham Australia berakhir lebih rendah untuk hari ini. Indeks acuan (Benchmark) S&P/ASX200 turun 104,06 poin, atau 2,02% pada 5.076,80 setelah rally sebanyak 3,5% pada hari sebelumnya. Saham sektor pertambangan menjadi salah satu pemicu turunnya Indeks S&P/ASX 200.

Emiten pertambangan kelas berat yaitu BHP dan Rio Tinto, kehilangan 3-4%. Penambang emas Evolution Mining merosot 8,8% dan Newcrest menyerah 6% setelah harga emas memperpanjang penurunan untuk sesi kedua semalam.

 

 

Dari wilayah Asia lainnya yaitu bursa saham Tanah Air,Indeks Harga Saham Gabungan (IHSG) juga merumput kembali ke zona hijau, naik 2,82% pada 4.538,93, berkinerja terbaik di antara bursa saham Asia lainnya. Nilai transaksi di Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) mencapai Rp 7,92 triliun dengan catatan jual bersih (net sell) asing Rp 286,94 miliar di pasar reguler dan negosiasi.

Katalis penguatan bursa saham Asia datang setelah rilis data Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) manufaktur China naik ke level terkuat sejak September 2017. Data tersebut memberikan harapan ke seluruh Asia dan Dunia mengingat bahwa pandemi virus corona pertama kali muncul di kota Wuhan, provinsi Hubei, China.

 

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Despite accuracy concerns from European countries, several South Asian nations insist on using Chinese medical products, including test kits to fight formidable coronavirus outbreak which has placed the region under a lockdown.

China has been shipping medical supplies to several countries in the region to help them stem the fast growing coronavirus pandemic, which Beijing claims to have contained.

Recently, some European countries, including the Netherlands and Spain have returned a huge amount of Chinese medical equipment, including test kits and masks on grounds of quality standards.

Although the South Asian states downplay the Europe's concerns, many believe they run out of options because of their weak public health systems.

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The Health Ministry of Pakistan on Monday rebuffed the accuracy concerns saying it would continue to use Chinese medical products to fight COVID-19 outbreak in the country.

"China's performance and its [medical] products are time-tested. They have lived up to the challenge," said Sajid Shah, a spokesman for the ministry.

"If we start listening to these concerns -- which are mere opinions so far -- then we won't be able to work, and proceed", he told Anadolu Agency.

Dr. Seemi Jamali, the head of Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center Karachi -- the country's one of the largest medical facilities -- shared a similar view.

"Why should I bother about concerns from Europe, which itself has failed to handle the crisis, even though it was warned much earlier," Jamali told Anadolu Agency.

"On the other hand, China has successfully handled the situation," she said, adding that Beijing's assistance had helped Islamabad "significantly" in its fight against the virus.

"As a doctor, I have no accuracy concerns about Chinese medical products," she added.

Home to over 200 million, Pakistan has so far reported 1,865 COVID-19 cases, with 25 confirmed deaths. Some 58 patients have recovered.

- Bangladesh

Bangladeshi authorities said it would use the Chinese equipment only after its experts validate the donated products.

"Our concerned medical team must validate all medical equipment donated by China before using, and in case of any defeat, those will be returned,” said Dr. Meerjady Sabrina Flora, the director of Bangladesh’s Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research.

China has so far donated Bangladesh 45,500 COVID-19 testing kits, 400,000 masks, 15,000 personal protective equipment (PPE), 1,000 infrared thermometers, 100 kilogram disinfectant and 50 kilogram hand sanitizers till the date, according to available media reports including the state-run media.

Of those donations, most have been by provided by Chinese Jack Ma and Alibaba Foundations.

Flora added that until the date Bangladesh had not used any test kits and other medical equipment donated by China.

“Till date, we have used test kits stored with us for long and all were validated by the World Health Organization and thoroughly checked by our team of experts,” she , told Anadolu Agency.

She said the medical equipment donated by China was produced in different Chinese companies, adding: “Our concerned team of experts will also contact those companies, and assess their past records in producing such equipment.”

Bangladesh, a country of over 165 million people, has so far confirmed five deaths and 49 infections from coronavirus, including the latest case recorded on Monday.

- Nepal

Nepal received 12 tons of medical supplies from China, its northern neighbor, last week to expedite its fight against coronavirus.

Some health experts, however, have raised questions about the higher rates and quality of the Chinese medical equipment, forcing the Supply Ministry to form a five-member panel led by the head of the country's quality control department to investigate the issue.

Bikash Devkota, the Health Ministry spokesman, did not reply to repeated calls from Anadolu Agency.

Suman Acharya, a Kathmandu-based health expert, said the government was not transparent about the brand and quality of the Chinese products.

"The government has not disclosed the brands of the materials. So we don't know about their quality. While there may not be any fault with the machines and personal protective equipment, other materials such as reagent -- which we need for labs -- may not meet the international standards," Acharya told Anadolu Agency.

- Myanmar

The Health Ministry of Myanmar on Monday said it had no complaints regarding the quality of the medial equipment donated by the Chinese government "so far,”

"Most of the test kits available these days are from China. We don’t believe the items would show 100% accuracy. There is always a chance of error,” a senior ministry official told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity as she was not allowed to speak to the media.

According to the official, Myanmar has only one laboratory that only uses Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, or RT-PCR, to test for the coronavirus.

She went on to say that a medical team from China’s Yunnan province was expected to arrive in Yangon in the first week of April to collaborate with Myanmar's medical teams in their efforts to control the COVID-19 outbreak.

China donated two batches of medical equipment to Myanmar in March. The items include personal protective equipments, laboratory equipment, N-95 masks and surgical masks, according to the country's health ministry.

- COVID-19 outbreak

After first appearing in Wuhan, China last December, the novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, has spread to at least 177 countries and territories, according to data compiled by U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University.

Nearly 787,000 cases have been reported worldwide, with the death toll over 37,800 and more than 166,000 recoveries.

* Md Kamruzzaman from Bangladesh, Deepak Adhikari from Nepal, and Kyaw Ye Lynn from Myanmar contributed to this story.

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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Hingga kini, pandemi virus corona (COVID-19) sudah menginvasi 200 negara dan teritorial, dengan total 787.438 kasus terjangkit, 37.846 kasus kematian, dan 165.938 kasus berhasil sembuh secara global per Selasa (31/3/2020). Berikut adalah perkembangan terbaru terkait pandemi ini di kawasan Asia, sebagaimana dilansir dari AFP:

Jutaan orang jatuh miskin di Asia

Laporan baru dari Bank Dunia menyatakan juika pandemi corona dikabarkan dapat membuat 11 juta orang di Asia Timur jatuh miskin, akibat adanya keterlibatan kontraksi ekonomi yang parah diikuti oleh pemulihan yang lamban.

Bahkan dalam kasus terbaik, tetap akan ada perlambatan tajam diikuti oleh pemulihan yang kuat, dan kurang dari 24 juta orang di wilayah itu akan keluar dari kemiskinan.
China Mulai Menyalakan Kembali Pabrik-pabrik

Setelah dua bulan melakukan penguncian (lockdown), China mulai menjalankan kembali aktivitas pabrik-pabrik. Meskipun pemulihan ekonomi ini cukup menantang sebab permintaan eksternal yang sulit akibat pandemi corona. Bahkan Bank Dunia memperingatkan pertumbuhan dapat memekik berhenti.

Tetapi China kembali bangun perlahan setelah menutup diri untuk menekan angka penularan COVID-19 di negaranya yang membuat jutaan orang menjadi tahanan rumah dan membuat kegiatan ekonomi hampir terhenti.

Corona buat Australia Berlakukan Hukuman Berat

Australia memberlakukan hukuman berat bagi orang yang melanggar perbatasan terkait pandemi corona hingga 11.000 dolar Australia (US$ 6.800) dan penjara enam bulan. Hukuman ini berlaku bagi orang-orang yang meninggalkan rumah mereka tanpa "alasan yang masuk akal", atau melakukan perkumpulan.

Setidaknya sudah ada 12 orang orang telah menerima denda karena melanggar aturan, termasuk beberapa yang melanggar periode isolasi diri atau karantina mandiri.

Jepang Larang Warganya Bepergian ke Luar Negeri

Jepang melarang warganya untuk bepergian ke 73 negara dan wilayah di seluruh dunia dalam upaya untuk menghentikan penyebaran virus. Warga negeri matahari terbit itu juga dihimbau untuk menghindari perjalanan yang tidak penting ke seluruh Jepang dan dunia, kata Menteri Luar Negeri Toshimitsu Motegi.

Pasar Asia Kembali Bangkit

Ekuitas Asia naik kuat menyusul reli di Wall Street, sementara minyak melambung, dengan para pedagang menyambut dimulainya aktivitas pabrik China, meskipun analis memperingatkan bahwa jalan di depan tetap berbatu untuk ekonomi global.

Pasar global juga mengalami penurunan bersejarah dalam beberapa pekan terakhir karena hadirnya pandemi corona yang mempengaruhi aktivitas ekonomi di seluruh dunia.

Kematian Pasien Corona Pertama di Myanmar

Myanmar melaporkan kematian pertama akibat corona, yakni seorang pria berusia 69 tahun yang telah kembali ke Myanmar pada pertengahan Maret setelah menerima perawatan kanker di Australia.

Negara berpenduduk 54 juta jiwa, yang memiliki salah satu sistem perawatan kesehatan paling berkembang di kawasan itu, baru mengkonfirmasi kasus pertamanya pada minggu lalu.

China Tunda Ujian Masuk Perguruan Tinggi

Akhirnya China menunda ujian masuk perguruan tinggi setelah berbulan-bulan tidak ada kepastian akibat wabah virus corona. Menurut otoritas pendidikan China, ujian "gaokao" yang terkenal sulit kini ditunda selama sebulan dan akan berlangsung pada 7 hingga 8 Juli mendatang.

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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Nilai tukar rupiah harus jungkir balik sebelum mampu mencatat penguatan tipis melawan dolar Amerika Serikat (AS) pada perdagangan Selasa (21/3/2020).

Rupiah membuka perdagangan dengan menguat 0,15% di Rp 16.300/US$, dan sempat bertambah hingga 0,28% di Rp 16.280/US$. Tetapi kinerja tersebut gagal dipertahankan, rupiah malah berbalik melemah 0,39% ke Rp 16.385/US$.

Beberapa menit sebelum perdagangan berakhir, rupiah berhasil berbalik menguat meski tipis 0,15% di Rp 16.300/US$ sama dengan level pembukaan perdagangan.

Rupiah tidak menguat sendirian pada hari ini, beberapa mata uang utama Asia juga menguat melawan dolar AS. Hingga pukul 16:12 WIB, ada lima mata uang lainnya yang mampu menguat, meski kebanyakan tipis-tipis saja. Hanya ringgit Malaysia yang penguatannya lebih baik dari rupiah, sebesar 0,35%.

Itu artinya rupiah menjadi mata uang dengan kinerja terbaik kedua di Asia pada hari ini. Berikut pergerakan mata uang utama Benua Kuning melawan dolar AS.

Bervariasinya arah mata uang Asia menunjukkan pelaku pasar masih bimbang melihat dinamika yang terjadi di pasar global akibat pandemi virus corona (COVID-19).

Pandemi yang berasal dari kota Wuhan, provinsi Hubei, China ini sudah "menyerang" lebih dari 170 negara, menginfeksi lebih 785.000 orang, dengan 37.686 meninggal dunia, dan lebih dari 165.000 dinyatakan sembuh, berdasarkan data Johns Hopkins CSSE per sore ini.

Sementara itu kabar bagus datang dari Negeri Tiongkok yang menjadi sentimen positif hari ini, sektor manufakturnya bangkit lebih cepat dari prediksi. Purchasing managers' index (PMI) manufaktur China di bulan Maret dilaporkan sebesar 52, melesat dibandingkan bulan Februari 35,7, dan jauh di atas prediksi di Forex Factory sebesar 44,9.

Indeks PMI di atas 50 berarti sektor manufaktur sudah kembali berekspansi di bulan ini. Sementara di bawah 50 berarti kontraksi.

Sektor manufaktur yang pulih lebih cepat tentunya membuktikan jika perekonomian akan segara bangkit saat COVID-19 berhasil diatasi.

China sendiri sudah sukses meredam penyebaran COVID-19, bahkan negeri Tiongkok kini bukan lagi menjadi negara dengan jumlah kasus terbanyak.
Laju penambahan kasus COVID-19 di China sudah jauh melambat, bahkan 0 untuk transmisi local. Kasus infeksi terbaru dilaporkan dari orang-orang yang datang ke China atau kasus impor.

Berbeda dengan China yang hampir 3 bulan "berperang" melawan COVID-19, Indonesia baru terpapat virus tersebut di awal bulan ini, dan sedang terjadi penambahan kasus yang signifikan.

Hingga hari ini dilaporkan sebanyak 1.528 kasus positif COVID-19 dengan 136 orang meninggal dunia dan 81 dinyatakan sembuh.

Akibat pandemi tersebut, terjadi arus modal asing keluar dari Indonesia yang membuat nilai tukar rupiah merosot tajam di bulan ini, dan sulit kembali menguat.

Gubernur Bank Indonesia (BI) Perry Warjiyo saat memberikan update tentang kondisi perekonomian terkini siang tadi mengatakan
dana asing masih pergi dari pasar Indonesia. Ia mengatakan, terjadi outflow atau aliran dana asing keluar hingga Rp 145,1 triliun.

"Terdiri dari outflow Rp 131,1 triliun di pasar SBN dan Rp 9,9 triliun di pasar saham," katanya.

Perry mengatakan, periode 20 Januari atau outbreak virus corona terjadi dana asing cukup deras mengalir keluar. Bank sentral sendiri telah melakukan buyback atau pembelian kembali SBN di pasar sekunder.

"Di mana mencapai Rp 166,2 triliun," kata Perry.

Aksi buyback di pasar obligasi mampu menahan gempuran bagi rupiah, sehingga rupiah tidak terus merosot hingga melewati level terlemah sepanjang sejarah Rp 16.800/US$ yang dicapai pada 17 Juni 1998.

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LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Since the coronavirus pandemic started to appear, Asian-Americans have been experiencing and reporting attacks from people blaming them for the outbreak.

We spoke with Stewart Kwoh, the founder of Asian-Americans Advancing Justice, for his perspective on everything going on.

Can you tell us what you're hearing from the Asian-American community?

"Yes, we're very concerned about some people blaming Asian-Americans for the coronavirus. We've seen some beatings in schools, we've seen a lot of name-calling. My sister-in-law was called 'coronavirus' when she was just walking down the street...last week," Kwoh said. "We have seen a lot of harassment on people and some discriminatory practices, like people being kept out of line or told to leave their premises and in some cases, people have spit on Asian-Americans just because they're Asian-Americans."

How do you tell them to handle these hate incidents? Some of them mild and some of them more extreme.

"Well, we're concerned because historically, Asian-Americans when they're stigmatized, they could be stigmatized as being the cause of the depression, which led to the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, or they could be stigmatized as being disloyal, which led to Japanese Americans being rounded up," Kwoh said. "Or after 9/11/01, even though president said don't attack Muslim-Americans, Muslims and South Asians were attacked, like there were 500 hate incidents around the country."

Kwoh continued, "So, we're very concerned. We think there's constructive ways of dealing with it. I applaud the governor and the mayor and belatedly the president for speaking out against hate incidents against Asian-Americans, but it is really an outrageous situation where Asian-Americans are being targeted when actually they have nothing to do with it. The reality is that Asian-Americans, like every American, is doing all they can to stop the virus. Asian-Americans are the front lines of doing research. Asian-Americans are in the front lines of being doctors and nurses and other health professionals trying to stop this virus. And we think we need to learn from all countries and all people on how to stop this horrible virus."

We've seen throughout all this devastation around the world, we're also seen moments of great compassion. So, for everything that you're saying that is negative, have you also a moment to see people step up and supporting the Asian-American community?

"We have. Like I said, the governor and the mayor have spoken out forcefully against xenophobia. People on the street sometimes will say, 'Don't do that, they're in this with us together,' but I do think that we need to recognize Asian Americans really stepping forwards as other Americans are to stop the virus," Kwoh said. "As I said, researchers, front line doctors and nurses are all banding together because we are in all this together."

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Ikuti Asia, Bursa Eropa Menghijau Sambut Data PMI China - CNBC Indonesia

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Bursa Eropa dibuka menguat pada perdagangan Selasa (31/3/2020), mengekor reli yang terjadi di bursa Asia menyambut penguatan kembali data manufaktur China per Maret.

Indeks Stoxx 600 menguat 1,7% di pembukaan. Saham-saham di sektor perjalanan melompat 4,7% sehingga menjadi indeks sektoral penggerak indeks yang berisikan 600 saham unggulan di Benua Biru tersebut.

Selang 10 menit kemudian, reli Stoxx 600 berlanjut menjadi 5,9 poin (1,87%) ke level 320,78. Di sisi lain indeks FTSE Inggris menguat 113 poin (2,03%) ke 5.676,72, indeks DAX Jerman tumbuh 254,23 poin (2,591%) ke 10.070,2 dan CAC Prancis naik 71,9 poin (1,64%) ke 4.450,41.

Pemerintah China merilis Indeks Manajer Pembelian (Purchasing Managers' Index/PMI) sektor manufaktur yang pada Maret berada di angka 52, yang mengindikasikan ekspansi karena melampaui angka 50.

Angka itu jauh lebih baik dari hasil polling Reuters yang memperkirakan angka 45, sehingga memicu aksi beli di bursa Asia.

Namun secara umum, perhatian pasar masih tertuju pada virus corona. Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia (World Health Organization/WHO) mengatakan saat ini sudah ada 782.000 kasus COVID-19 di seluruh dunia, yang menewaskan 37.000. AS berada di posisi teratas dengan angka 164.000 kasus, disusul Italia, Spanyol, China dan Jerman. 

Di sisi lain, harga minyak masih tertekan karena perang tarif antara Arab Saudi dan Rusia yang masih berkepanjangan di tengah prospek pelemahan konsumsi energi dunia karena perlambatan ekonomi akibat wabah COVID-19.

Harga minyak West Texas Intermediate (WT) drop 6,6%, menjadi hanya US$ 20,09 per barel, yang merupakan level terendahnya sejak Februari 2002. Spanyol melaporkan pertumbuhan domestik bruto (PDB) kuartal IV-2019 sebesar 0,4% atau di bawah konsensus pasar yang memperkirakan angka 1%.

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Meski begitu, selalu ada pengecualian untuk segala sesuatunya. Secara keseluruhan, pemain Asia memang tidak sebaik para pesepak bola dari Amerika Selatan, Eropa, Afrika, atau Amerika Utara. Namun, bukan berarti para pemain Asia sama sekali tak bisa bersaing di kompetisi sepak bola elite.

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Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 rose in morning trading but reversed course to dip nearly 0.9%, finishing at 18,917.01. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 also fell back, losing 2.0% to 5,076.80, while South Korea's Kospi picked up 2.0% to 1,751.84. Hong Kong's Hang Seng stood at 23,412.47, up 1.0% and the Shanghai Composite inched up 0.1% to 2,750.88.

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An employee of a bank wearing a face mask watches the computer monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Asian shares surged Tuesday after a rally in U.S. stocks, mostly spurred by health care companies' announcements of developments that could aid in the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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TOKYO – Asian shares were mixed after some benchmarks lost earlier gains Tuesday, following a rally in U.S. stocks that mostly was spurred by health care companies' announcements of developments that could aid in the coronavirus outbreak.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 rose in morning trading but reversed course to dip nearly 0.9%, finishing at 18,917.01. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 also fell back, losing 2.0% to 5,076.80, while South Korea's Kospi picked up 2.0% to 1,751.84. Hong Kong's Hang Seng stood at 23,412.47, up 1.0% and the Shanghai Composite inched up 0.1% to 2,750.88.

India's Sensex jumped 3.4% to 29,412.21. Shares rose in Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore but fell in Malaysia.

"Despite some respite for markets overnight, uncertainty remains as the spread of the COVID-19 virus continues,” said Zhu Huani at Mizuho Bank, warning against too much optimism.

“Central banks and authorities continue to step up measures to support the economy.”

In Asia, the Monetary Authority of Singapore eased policy Monday, and the central bank of China has also cut a key interest rate.

The overnight rally on Wall Street tacked more gains onto a recent upswing for the market, which is coming off the best week for the S&P 500 in 11 years, albeit after falling into bear market territory. Optimism is budding that the worst of the selling may be approaching, but markets around the world are still wary as leaders work to nurse their economies through the pandemic. The S&P 500 remains 22.4% below its record set last month, and oil tumbled to an 18-year low.

The S&P 500 rose 3.4% Monday for its fourth gain in the last five days.

A surge for health care stocks led the way at the week's open. Johnson & Johnson leaped 8% after saying it expects to begin human clinical studies on a vaccine candidate for COVID-19 by September. Abbott Laboratories jumped 6.4% after saying it has a test that can detect the new coronavirus in as little as five minutes.

Stocks jumped last week after the Federal Reserve promised to buy as many Treasurys as it takes to get lending markets running smoothly and Capitol Hill reached a deal on a $2.2 trillion rescue package for the economy.

"The market wants to see everything line up, and last week everything lined up," said Nela Richardson, investment strategist at Edward Jones, referring to the unprecedented aid from the Fed and Congress.

Now, she said, President Donald Trump also appears to be in sync with health experts about the need to restrict the economy to slow the spread of the virus. Trump on Sunday extended social-distancing guidelines, which recommend against group gatherings larger than 10, through the end of April. Earlier, he had said he wanted the economy open by Easter.

“Now that message is in line,” said Richardson. “All these things line up coming into this week, and that's why you saw strong performance last week continuing today.”

The S&P 500 rose 85.18 points to 2,626.65. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 3.2% to 22,327.48, and the Nasdaq gained 3.6%, to 7,774.15.

Forced selling by investors needing to raise cash is easing, according to Morgan Stanley strategists. They say another pullback in stocks is likely, but current levels offer some buying points for investors willing to wait six to 12 months.

“Our base case is that the lows are in for this bear market for most stocks,” they wrote in a report.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 0.70% from 0.65 late Monday.

Economists expect a number of weak reports on the economy to come in through the week. The lowlight will likely be Friday's jobs report, where economists expect to see the steepest drop in the nation's payrolls since the Great Recession.

The number of known infections around the world has topped 780,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States has the highest number in the world, more than 160,000.

Most people who contract COVID-19 have mild or moderate symptoms, which can include fever and cough. But for others, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, the virus can cause pneumonia and require hospitalization.

More than 37,000 have died worldwide due to COVID-19, but more than 160,000 have also recovered.

ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude added $1.23 to $21.32 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It fell 6.6% to $20.09 a barrel on Monday, after touching its lowest price since 2002. Oil started the year above $60 and has plunged on expectations that a weakened economy will burn less fuel. The world is awash in oil, meanwhile, as producers continue to pull more of it out of the ground.

Brent crude, the international standard, picked up 30 cents to $26.72 per barrel.

CURRENCIES: The dollar was trading at $108.54, up from $107.76 on Monday. The euro rose to $1.1041 from $1.0995.

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JAKARTA, AYOBANDUNG.COM -- Bank Dunia mengatakan, pandemi virus corona (Covid-19) tidak hanya berdampak pada ekonomi makro tiap negara di kawasan Asia Timur dan Pasifik. Wabah ini juga akan berdampak serius pada kemiskinan, terutama di negara berkembang.

Dalam laporannya bertajuk East Asia and Pacific in the Time of Covid-19 yang dirilis Senin (30/3), Bank Dunia memprediksikan, jumlah orang miskin akan naik sekitar 11 juta orang apabila situasi ekonomi semakin memburuk. Prediksi ini dengan asumsi garis kemiskinan adalah 5,50 dolar AS per hari atau sekitar Rp 89 ribu per hari (1 dolar AS = Rp 16.325).

Tapi, apabila negara-negara di kawasan Asia Timur dan Pasifik dapat bertindak dengan cepat, hampir 24 juta orang akan keluar dari garis kemiskinan. Jumlah ini lebih kecil dibandingkan proyeksi Bank Dunia sebelumnya, yaitu hampir 35 juta orang keluar dari kemiskinan sepanjang 2020. Sebanyak 25 juta orang di antaranya merupakan penduduk Cina.

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Dalam laporannya, Bank Dunia menjelaskan, risiko rumah tangga untuk jatuh miskin lebih tinggi dialami pada sektor-sektor yang sangat rentan terhadap dampak Covid-19. Misalnya, pariwisata di Thailand dan Kepulauan Pasifik, manufaktur di Kamboja dan Vietnam serta rumah tangga yang bergantung pada tenaga kerja informal di semua negara.

Di beberapa negara, dampak Covid-19 lebih besar karena faktor spesifik, seperti kekeringan di Thailand ataupun guncangan harga komoditas di Mongolia. Di negara-negara Kepulauan Pasifik, prospek tahun ini memiliki risiko besar karena ketergantungan mereka terhadap hibah, pariwisata dan impor.

Untuk mengantisipasi dampak Covid-19 terhadap kemiskinan, Bank Dunia menekankan negara di kawasan ini agar segera melakukan mitigasi. "Negara-negara harus bertindak cepat dalam mengantisipasinya dan dalam skala yang sebelumnya tidak terbayangkan," tutur Wakil Presiden Bank Dunia untuk kawasan Asia Timur dan Pasifik  Victoria Kwakwa dalam rilis yang dilansir Republika dari situs resmi Bank Dunia, Selasa (31/3).

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Salah satu rekomendasi Bank Duinia adalah kerja sama internasional maupun antara pemerintah dengan badan usaha atau public-private partnership (PPP) lintas baru. Tujuannya, meningkatkan produksi dan pasokan peralatan kesehatan utama, layanan dalam menghadapi pandemi serta memastikan stabilitas keuangan.

Bank Dunia juga menganjurkan agar kebijakan perdagangan tetap terbuka. Kebijakan ini diharapkan mampu memperlancar pasokan peralatan medis dan sebagainya di semua negara serta untuk memfasilitasi pemulihan ekonomi yang cepat.

Rekomendasi kebijakan lain adalah melonggarkan kredit untuk membantu rumah tangga memperlancar konsumsi mereka maupun perusahaan dalam bertahan dari goncangan ekonomi. Tapi, mengingat potensi krisis yang berkepanjangan, Bank Dunia juga menekankan perlunya penggabungan langkah-langkah tersebut dengan regulasi. Khususnya karena banyak negara Asia Timur dan Pasifik telah menanggung beban utang perusahaan maupun rumah tangga yang tinggi.

Untuk negara-negara miskin, keringanan utang akan sangat penting sehingga sumber daya yang terbatas dapat difokuskan pada pengelolaan dampak ekonomi maupun kesehatan dari pandemi.

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• Asian markets rise modestly despite Wall Street’s surge.
• Wall Street climbs but investor unease continues.
• New York’s attorney general has questions for Zoom about privacy and security.

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Asian markets rise modestly despite Wall Street’s surge.

Stock markets in Asia sounded a cautionary note on Tuesday after a big rise on Wall Street, reflecting investor jitters over the state of the world economy.

Major markets in the region were up less than 1 percent at midday, though Hong Kong and South Korean shares bucked the trend and rose about 1.5 percent. The caution extended to futures markets, which were predicting modest rises on Wall Street and in Europe later in the day.

Other signs of cheer could be found in the markets. Oil futures rose on Tuesday after tumbling to their lowest levels since 2002. Oil prices offer a handy gauge of how investors expect the economy to perform. Further emphasizing the point, the price of gold, long considered a safe place to park money, fell in Tuesday trading. Prices for longer-term U.S. Treasury bonds, another safe haven, also fell.

Still, signs of worry were not far away. An index that tracks stock market volatility, known as VIX, fell on Monday in the United States but remains at historically high levels.

Wall Street climbs but investor unease continues.

Stocks on Wall Street rose on Monday as investors bid up shares of health care companies as they reported progress on products that could help with the coronavirus outbreak.

The S&P 500 climbed more than 3 percent, adding to a strong showing last week. The S&P 500 had risen 10 percent last week after a three-day run that was its best since 1933, amid relief over Washington’s $2 trillion spending plan.

But there were lingering signs of caution in the financial markets. Most notably, oil prices tumbled to their lowest levels since 2002.

And in the stock market, Monday’s rally came on relatively light volume, said Matt Maley, chief market strategist at Miller Tabak, a trading and asset management firm. That suggests a lack of conviction among investors, he said.

“It’s a little bit of lack of confidence,” said Mr. Maley, “And you can’t blame them after what’s happened.”

In the oil market, brent crude, the international benchmark, fell more than 6 percent to roughly $26 a barrel on Monday. West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, was down more than 5 percent with prices hovering around $20.25 in early afternoon trading. Earlier in the morning the price had briefly dropped below $20 a barrel, a level not seen in almost 20 years.

New York’s attorney general has questions for Zoom about privacy and security.

Zoom, the popular videoconferencing app whose traffic has surged amid the coronavirus pandemic, is under scrutiny by the office of New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, for its data privacy and security practices.

The attorney general’s office sent a letter to Zoom on Monday asking what, if any, new security measures the company had put in place to handle increased traffic on its network and to detect hackers, according to a copy reviewed by The New York Times.

The letter referred to Zoom as “an essential and valuable communications platform,” but it outlined several concerns, noting that the company had been slow to address security flaws such as vulnerabilities that have allowed malicious users to invade videoconferences held on the service, a practice known as Zoombombing.

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Discrimination against Asian Americans: City council candidate experiences racism on social media - Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3

March 30, 2020 11:06 AM

Melissa Kim

Posted: March 30, 2020 11:06 AM

Updated: March 30, 2020 1:53 PM

SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. — Hugh Cha is making history by becoming the first Asian American to run for city council in Sun Prairie.

Cha had been campaigning for a few months, when a comment on his Facebook post was brought to his attention.

“I feel like I’m on high alert,” said Cha, “my wife is worried.”

Cha’s family immigrated to the United States in search of the American Dream. His parents moved to Wausau from Colorado in the 1990s to work on the ginseng farms. Cha attended UW-Madison and Madison College, eventually pursuing a career in information technology before following his dream of serving his community in politics.

“We have to value community,” he explained.

Cha says he’s not going to let one person stop him from living his dream.

“This one individual can’t and doesn’t represent the whole,” said Cha.

Sun Prairie Police Chief Michael Steffes says he can’t comment specifically on this case because it’s still under investigation, but he did express his thoughts in a statement.

“The community of Sun Prairie prides itself on respecting the diversity of our citizens. Hate speech can have consequences far beyond the act itself. Becoming the victim of this type of speech can be traumatic and intimidating. If the act is committed because of who you are or what you believe, the violation can be even more hurtful and can have a deep emotional impact. Any behavior or statements that are intolerant of the diversity of our community, ethnicities and backgrounds cannot be tolerated. We encourage any citizens that experience this activity to reach out to our police department.”

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