The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz after the US and Israel began their war with Iran in late February has sent shockwaves across the globe.

Oil prices have soared and stock markets have wobbled as the world waits to see when Iran will allow the key waterway - through which about 20% of all oil passes - to reopen.

At the moment, only a handful of ships make it through the strait each day. Meanwhile, the attacks on energy infrastructure in the region have only served to push prices higher.

Arguably, nowhere has felt it more than Asia: nearly 90% of the oil and gas passing through the strait is bound for Asian countries.

And already, the strain is being felt.

Governments have ordered employees to work from home, cut the working week, declared national holidays and closed universities early in order to conserve their supplies.

Even China - which is thought to have reserves equivalent to three months of imports - is making adjustments, limiting a fuel price hike as citizens are faced with a 20% jump in price.

The war may be thousands of miles away - but people across Asia have been telling the BBC about the very real, everyday impact it is having on their lives.

The Philippines has declared a national energy emergency in light of the conflict and "the resulting imminent danger posed upon the availability and stability of the country's energy supply".

The impact here of a war more than 7,000km (4,300 miles) away is being felt strongly - with the country's jeepney drivers among the worst affected.

Carlos Bragal Jr has seen his daily wage drop from 1,000 to 1,200 pesos ($16.60 to $19.92) for a 12-hour shift to just 200 to 500 pesos.

Drivers like him were already facing a slew of issues - including excise tax and a suspended fare hike - but the recent soaring prices now mean some of his colleagues make nothing.

"I have sent my daughters to school because of this job - one just graduated and the other one is a graduating student," Carlos said, adding: "We had a good life. But now, we do not know what will happen to us in the next few weeks.

"If this continues, it will definitely kill us and our family."

In the latest attempt to ease pressure on drivers, the city of Manila announced it would pay more than 1,000 jeepney drivers to give free rides to commuters.

It is not just the jeepney drivers fearing the future, however. Fishermen and farmers are also struggling with high fuel costs. Several vegetable farmers in Bulacan have already been forced to stop planting.

The government has acknowledged the issue, stepping in to offer cash assistance.

But Carlos, and others, aren't impressed.

"The fuel subsidy from the government isn't enough. It's for a two-day drive. So what happens after two days? Our situation now is worse than during the pandemic," Carlos said.

In nearly two decades as a news presenter, Sirima Songklin has rarely been caught without a suit.

But earlier this month, she and her fellow news anchors at public broadcaster Thai PBS removed their blazers on air to promote a message: save energy by dressing appropriately in the heat amid a fuel crisis.

"Taking off the suit isn't the whole solution for energy conservation, but what we did is to show that we're not ignoring what's happening. We were setting an example," Sirima told BBC Thai.

"It's unbelievable that something so small could reflect the clear impact of the current conflict [in the Middle East] on us."

This is one of a series of government directives since the strait was effectively closed. People in Thailand have also been asked to keep air conditioning at 26-27C, and all government agencies have been told to work from home.

Things are starting to look up, according to Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who announced over the weekend that Thailand has reached a deal with Iran for its tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

But he has encouraged people to keep conserving fuel, urging them to carpool or use public transport.

The irony of the current crisis is not lost on Dimuthu, who lives in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.

"During the previous time, the country did not have money to buy fuel. Now, the country has money, but there is no fuel for us to buy."

Sri Lanka has just emerged from a financial crisis which, in 2022, saw it run out of foreign reserves and unable to import essential items and buy enough fuel.

Now it is back on a more even keel. But aware of the risks, it has brought in a series of belt-tightening measures - including declaring Wednesdays a public holiday.

"I am really enjoying the mid-week break because it is a fully paid holiday," a housing ministry official told AFP.

But not everyone can afford to see the silver lining in the energy crisis, such as those who directly depend on fuel for their livelihoods.

"I didn't go to work today," Nimal, a lawnmower operator, told the BBC while waiting in line at a petrol station in Colombo - one of many swarmed by snaking queues - earlier this month.

"We are fulfilling our daily needs with great difficulty. Because of [the queues]... I don't even have time to attend to work.

"By the time I get back to work after getting fuel, someone else may be there as a replacement for the job."

In Myanmar - engulfed by civil war since May 2021 - the military-backed authorities have brought in an alternate day policy for private vehicles as it tries to conserve fuel.

For Ko Htet - not his real name - the impact is not so much on his working life, but on his social life.

"I usually meet with my friends weekly and monthly," says the bank employee, who has been travelling to work on public transport.

"Right now, we need to discuss whether we meet on even or odd days, making sure everyone is okay to come."

He also fears a new black market for fuel may emerge over the coming months - adding to worries about the rising prices of commodities.

The world's most populous country has been deeply affected by events in the Middle East since 28 February.

The 10 million-strong Indian community in the Gulf is dealing with the direct fallout of the war, but at home the effects of oil and gas shortages are being felt across both homes and businesses.

In the western state of Gujurat, a shortage of gas rather than oil has seen the region's ceramics industry shut down for the best part of a month.

With no end in sight to the Iran conflict, the 400,000 people employed in the trade have been left in limbo.

"I will have to go hungry if I continue staying here without work," Sachin Parashar, a migrant worker, told a local news channel.

Some who have stayed back face uncertainty.

"My employer has offered food and shelter, but I do not know what will happen if the shutdown continues indefinitely," says Bhumi Kumar, another migrant worker employed at a factory which makes tiles.

India has been hit hard by the strait's closure. Roughly 60% of its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is imported, and about 90% of those shipments pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

And it is not just factories struggling.

In Mumbai - a city of more than 22 million people - as many as a fifth of all hotels and restaurants fully or partially shut in the first weeks of March. Items which take longer to cook are absent from menus. Long queues have formed across the nation as people try to get their hands on gas cylinders, even as the government tries to calm fears of a shortage.

"The situation [in restaurants] is dire. Cooking gas simply isn't available," Manpreet Singh, of the National Restaurant Association of India, which represents about 500,000 restaurants, told the BBC.

In an attempt to curb soaring fuel prices and relieve pressure on households and businesses, Vietnam has scrapped some fuel taxes until mid-April.

The move saw fuel prices fall in the country by around 20% - though they remain significantly higher than before the war in Iran.

Those on the ground tell BBC that they are struggling to manage these rising costs.

In Dong Nai province, southern Vietnam, a manager at a factory that exports commodities like spices and nuts says his equipment needs diesel and LPG - which means his operational costs have increased by about 60% since the war.

In the capital Hanoi, clothes seller Quang Cuong says orders at his shop have dropped significantly over the past week amid increased shipping costs.

"I used to be able to provide free shipping for my buyers if their orders are at least one million Vietnamese dong ($38; £29). But now I have to charge them for it," he says. "Some people understand it, some people don't like it."

For most in South Korea, daily life has chugged along without drastic changes - though worries about an energy crisis are certainly bubbling.

According to local media, many South Korean households have been stockpiling plastic bags - the kind that authorities have designated for rubbish.

"When I went to a nearby supermarket a few days ago, the rubbish bags were sold out," Woo Jung-suk, a resident of Seoul told the BBC.

This comes amid fears of a looming shortage of these bags, due to the disruption in supply of naphtha - a petrochemical produced from crude oil and a key raw ingredient in plastics.

Energy minister Kim Sung-whan has tried to calm the panic-buying with reassurance that the country will not have supply issues for more than a year.

And if there indeed is a shortage of rubbish bags, authorities would allow people to use regular plastic bags to throw their waste, he wrote on Facebook this week. "You will never be in a situation where you are forced to store rubbish at home."

South Korea's government has launched an energy-saving campaign urging people to take shorter showers and use washing machines only on weekends, among other measures.

"I am practising things at home that I usually didn't pay attention to, such as turning off lights immediately and unplugging appliances," says Kim, a 20-year-old NGO worker in Seoul.

"Daily life hasn't changed drastically yet, but since we are in a situation where it wouldn't be surprising if all prices went up at any moment... there is a sense of anxiety."

Additional reporting by Virma Simonette in Manila, Paweena Ninbut and Sen Nguyen in Bangkok, Yuna Ku in Seoul, Shirly Upul Kumara and Harini Dissanayake in Colombo, BBC Burmese, and Soutik Biswas and Abhishek Dey in Delhi.

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