The top three sectors with the highest closures are general construction with 372 closures, real estate - 184 closures, and restaurants/eateries - 159 closures.

Tourists have started flocking again to U Minh Thuong National Park, the southern province of Kien Giang, after months of closure to prevent the COVID-19 spread and wildfire.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked local authorities, which are imposing social distancing, not to let residents leave their places of residence for another locality after July 31 until the end of social distancing in his latest dispatch.

The Thai government has announced it will adopt the vaccine passport, a certificate of vaccination, for use as an official travel document for those already vaccinated against COVID-19.

The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has asked the Ministry of Transport to shorten the closur of Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi for upgrading and repairing runways and taxiways.

Nearly 1,900 kindergartens and primary schools in Hanoi reopened on May 11 after more than three months of closure for COVID-19 prevention.

All tourist sites in the central province of Quang Tri will be temporarily closed to visitors from March 18 as part of the local effort to prevent the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from spreading.

Hundreds of schools in Malaysia have been forced to close due to poor air quality, blamed on smoke drifting in from forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia.

The Philippines has decided to close its resort island of Boracay to tourists for six months from April 26 to address sewage and environment-related problems.

Eruptions of volcanoes in Indonesia in recent days have forced the closure of two airports and the cancellation of a number of flights.

Singapore's central bank revoked the licence of Swiss bank BSI on May 24, as the bank has been linked to a money laundering scandal at Malaysia's state fund 1MDB.