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[ad_1] KUCHING: The government is considering reopening its border to help boost the tourism sector, says Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri. “We are now negotiating with countries like Singapore, Brunei, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and New Zealand that have been identified as green zones,” he said. …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Retiring street vendors will receive financial support as they train new street vendors to take over their stalls, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said on Saturday (December 26), in an update on the succession scheme for street vendors. The scheme, which was first announced by NEA last …

[ad_1] The Portugal star was back in inspiring form against Leicester City, but failures at the other end of the field cost the visitors three points As Bruno Fernandes doffed his imaginary magician’s hat to television cameras inside King Power Stadium early on Boxing Day afternoon, the Portugal international must …

[ad_1] Jack Ma Photographer: Scott Eells Photographer: Scott Eells Two months ago, global investors were about to take advantage of a windfall from what would have been the world’s largest initial public offering. Now the returns on the hundreds of millions of dollars invested with Ant Group Co. is in …

[ad_1] Hong Kong caused a sensation with one of the strictest COVID-19 quarantines in the world. Amid recent growth in the number of cases in Hong Kong, all foreign arrivals must be quarantined for a whopping 21 days, extending the previously required 14-day quarantine by one week. Hong Kong has …

[ad_1] WEST PALM BEACH: Unemployment benefits for millions of Americans struggling to make a living expired overnight when President Donald Trump refused to sign a year-end COVID-19 spending and relief bill that it had been considered a closed deal prior to his sudden objections. The fate of the bipartisan package …

[ad_1] FREMANTLE: Even in the scorching Australian summer sun, long lines of customers wind around the port of Fremantle, a reassuring sight for troubled local fishermen trying to replace lost business with China. Australia’s lobster exports are worth US $ 500 million a year, and in normal times 94 percent …

[ad_1] LONDON: Millions of people in the UK faced harsh new coronavirus restrictions on Saturday (December 26), with Scotland and Northern Ireland demanding stricter measures to try to stop a new variant of the virus believed to be spreading more quickly. Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown and in Wales, …

[ad_1] JAKARTA: The shelves of the three-story workshop in a suburb of Jakarta were filled with colorful bags and laptop bags. Upon closer inspection, one would realize that they were actually made from discarded detergent containers and used billboard materials. Ad Ad Near the store’s entrance were burlap sacks from …

[ad_1] PARIS (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS, BLOOMBERG) – More than 50 countries have imposed travel restrictions on Britain in a bid to stop the spread of a new, more infectious strain of the coronavirus now found in France and Spain and even to Japan. Several others, including Denmark, Lebanon, Germany, Australia …