[ad_1] SINGAPORE: For those with multiple bank accounts, logging into numerous platforms for updates and compiling financial spreadsheets may now be a thing of the past. This is possible with the launch of the Singapore Financial Data Exchange (SGFinDex) on Monday (December 7), a digital infrastructure that is based on …
Read More »Phase 3 unlikely by year-end unless more use TraceTogether, say experts, Singapore News & Top Stories
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Singapore’s Covid-19 cases in the community have been at an all-time low, with zero local cases for two weeks last month. This has raised hopes that the Republic can bid farewell to the difficult year with a transition to phase three of its reopening, which would see …
Read More »ScienceTalk: Singapore’s Choice of Covid-19 Vaccines, Featured Singapore News and Stories
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – With more than 200 potential Covid-19 vaccines being developed globally, we are inundated every day with news about the latest developments. How do we scoff at the wealth of information to guide urgent decisions about which vaccines to buy or use? To put together Singapore’s Covid-19 vaccine …
Read More »Rudy Giuliani Tested Positive For COVID-19, Says Trump
[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday (December 6) that his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who has led the president’s effort to undo his electoral defeat, tested positive for COVID-19. Giuliani, by far the greatest mayor in New York history, and who has been working tirelessly exposing the most corrupt …
Read More »Unable to travel, employees struggle to make up for unused annual leave while some companies adjust policies
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Many employees are struggling to clear their annual vacation days, human resources experts said, as COVID-19 travel restrictions prevent Singaporeans from going abroad for pleasure. Some employees have tried to save their unused leave days to move them forward to next year, but the lack of a break …
Read More »New pleas for masks as Trump rally ignores COVID-19 risk
[ad_1] WASHINGTON: US health officials on Sunday (Dec. 6) voiced alarm over the refusal of many Americans to wear masks as the nation faces a rising daily death toll from COVID-19 and Donald Trump held a packed rally. in which basic health measures were mocked. With the launch of new …
Read More »Australia investigates how 2 international travelers dodged coronavirus quarantine, Australia / NZ News & Top Stories
[ad_1] SYDNEY (BLOOMBERG) – Australian state police were to blame for two German nationals avoiding mandatory hotel quarantine upon arrival in Sydney before taking a flight to Melbourne. New South Wales police reviewed the circumstances of the incident and identified that “they had incorrectly allowed the two travelers to go …
Read More »Australia’s state of Victoria eases summer restrictions ‘safe for COVID’
[ad_1] MELBOURNE: Australia’s state of Victoria eased COVID-19 restrictions on Sunday (Dec. 6) after the country’s pandemic hotspot logged 37 days with no new coronavirus infections, moving toward a “COVID-safe” holiday season. From midnight on Sunday, up to 100 people will be able to attend public gatherings such as weddings, …
Read More »Europe fights rising COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes
[ad_1] MADRID: As the two morgue workers were pushing a stretcher with a body in a bag out of the room, the old man in the adjoining bed briefly woke up from his dementia. “Is dead?” he muttered, reaching out his arm, trying to touch his roommate one last time. …
Read More »Five imported cases of Covid-19, including a woman who came to Singapore for her wedding, Singapore News & Top Stories
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Singapore reported five new Covid-19 cases on Sunday (Dec. 6), bringing the total to 58,260. All five cases were imported and had been assigned a stay-at-home notice when they arrived in Singapore. There were no local cases. Among the new cases are four that did not show …
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