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[ad_1] HANGZHOU, China / HONG KONG – Alibaba Group Holdings Singles Day purchases surpassed $ 74 billion in total sales on Wednesday, a large increase from last year’s all-time high suggesting strong consumer health in the second. world’s largest economy. According to data released by Alibaba shortly after midnight on …

[ad_1] NEW YORK: The surge in shares of Netflix, Zoom and other of this year’s corporate stay-at-home winners has come to a sudden halt due to promising vaccine data suggesting a possible exit from the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the jury was still out on Tuesday on whether that setback, triggered …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Rapid tests at larger events have yet to detect any positive cases of Covid-19, said on Tuesday (November 10) the director of medical services (DMS) at the Ministry of Health, Associate Professor Kenneth Mak . Singapore is testing the use of these tests as an important part …

[ad_1] Deal Pfizer Inc CEO Albert Bourla sold a stake worth $ 5.56 million, according to a regulatory document that showed the sale took place on Monday, the same day the drugmaker reported positive data on its vaccine. experimental COVID-19. The Pfizer logo is seen at its UK headquarters in …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE, November 1, 2020 – A Singapore Airlines A380 aircraft is seen at Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 3 on October 31, 2020. For two weekends from October 24 to November 1, Singapore Airlines hosted dinners on two A380 passenger jets docked at Changi Airport Terminal 3, offering customers the …

[ad_1] Wed, Nov 11, 2020-9: 54 am UPDATED Wed, Nov 11, 2020 – 10:42 am SINGAPORE stocks opened weaker on Wednesday after a mixed night session on Wall Street amid waning investor enthusiasm for a possible Covid-19 vaccine. Pfizer’s optimism and BioNTech’s vaccine announcement on Monday were tempered by the …

[ad_1] SUBANG JAYA, Malaysia: Every morning Malaysian pilot Azrin Mohamad Zawawi dons his white uniform and black captain’s cap before heading to work. But instead of going to the airport, as he has done for two decades, he heads to a small noodle stand he now owns in a suburb …

[ad_1] Singapore and Hong Kong will launch a travel bubble to allow transit between the two Asian shopping centers and resurrect economies hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. Flights between cities, which have a low number of new cases of daily local transmission, will begin on November 22. Initially there will …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The requirements for the air travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore are not designed to be “totally symmetrical,” said Singapore Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday (Nov 11), Ong said that both cities had agreed on the need for COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE / HONG KONG – Singapore travelers will be able to travel to Hong Kong for pleasure starting on November 22, in the first air travel bubble deal for the Republic since border restrictions were imposed amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The plan will start with one flight per day …