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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The government will foot the bill for the increased operating costs incurred by dorm operators due to dorm closings and home stay notices imposed on some 300,000 foreign workers in Singapore. Restricted movement measures confining this group in their places of residence have resulted in additional costs, …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: British bank Barclays and German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim are among the companies that have returned or donated the Employment Support Plan (JSS) payments. A total of 32 companies returned wage subsidies worth a combined S $ 35 million, the finance ministry said on Sunday (May 10). Ad …

[ad_1] Passengers traveling with Singapore Airlines and Silkair must bring their own face mask to wear throughout the flight, the airline said in a statement. The airline joins a number of companies that have made face masks mandatory for passengers on flights recently such as Emirates, Air Canada, and Air …

[ad_1] McDonald’s is officially open for business islandwide after three weeks of closure, and considering our peculiar obsession with the fast-food chain, it’s safe to presume that Singaporeans will be making a beeline to its outlets today (May 11). Knowing this, the Golden Arches urged customers not to make a …

[ad_1] Mon, May 11, 2020 – 12:02 PM SWEDISH dumplings and home furnishings from Ikea will arrive in western Singapore, when the retailer opens a store in the Jem Mall in 2021. This will be its first small-store concept in Southeast Asia, whereby the Swedish home goods giant becomes a …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR – Most Malaysians have been trapped in their homes for almost two months due to the partial closure of the country that helped curb the coronavirus outbreak but cost the economy billions of ringgit in losses. However, many of them still support the government’s measure on Sunday …

[ad_1] Mon, May 11, 2020 – 5:51 PM THE Singapore Exchange will soon do away with its minimum trading price rule for mainboard-listed companies, after finding “broad support from market participants” in last year’s public consultation, its regulatory arm said on Monday. Since 2016, companies on the mainboard must have …

[ad_1] JAKARTA: Hundreds of people in central Jakarta gathered on Sunday night (May 10) to say goodbye to the first McDonald’s store in Indonesia, in what some have said is a possible violation of COVID restrictions- 19. Sarinah, a state-owned mall where the flagship store was located, announced last week …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The former boss of the popular Zam Zam restaurant and his friend were jailed for conspiring to assault a rival restaurant’s supervisor on Thursday (9 April). Zackeer Abbass Khan, 49, was jailed six years and given six strokes of the cane, while his long-time friend Anwer Ambiya …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A former director of the Singapore Zam Zam restaurant on North Bridge Road, who devised a 2015 attack on a supervisor at the rival restaurant Victory restaurant next door, was sentenced Monday (May 11) to six years in prison and six strokes cane. . Before sentencing Zackeer …