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A German tourist died on Sunday of the novel coronavirus in a Sinai resort of eastern Egypt, the health ministry announced, the first death from the epidemic recorded in Africa. “The 60-year-old German citizen showed symptoms of a fever (and) checked into Hurghada hospital on 6 March,” before testing positive for Covid-19, it said in a statement. The tourist, who arrived from Germany a week ago, died after having refused to be transferred to an isolation ward until 7 March once his breathing had been affected by “acute pneumonia”. On Saturday, the health ministry announced 45 suspected cases of Egyptians and foreigners contracting the virus aboard a Nile cruise ship. The boat was carrying 171 people – 101 foreigners and 70 Egyptian crew – Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly told reporters. Besides the cruise ship cases, Egypt has detected three cases of the virus, the first of which was announced on 14 February. The health ministry said last week that the first patient, a C...

  The Cambodian police filed pornography charges against a 39-year-old Facebook user for selling products while wearing sexy clothes that allegedly undermine Khmer values and culture. On 17 February 2020, Prime Minister Hun Sen attended the annual meeting of the Cambodian National Council for Women where he  spoke  about the need to probe and stop women from selling products on Facebook while wearing clothes that are contrary to social morality or ‘Khmer women’s values and Khmer culture’. Two days later, the police  posted  on social media that they summoned Vann Rachana (known as Thai Srey Neang on Facebook) for questioning and education about her Facebook page featuring products such as women’s underwear and beauty accessories. She appeared in a video  appealing  for public  forgiveness  and vowed to stop wearing ‘revealing clothing’ on her Facebook page. I am sorry. I hope the leader and public forgive me. Please, other on...