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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Associate Professor Stephen Lim spent much of his childhood dazzling audiences at regional and international competitions with his mastery of the electric organ. However, when it came to choosing a career, he put aside plans to become a pianist and composer and chose academia. Today, Professor Lim …

[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 …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Over the past four years, I have watched with dismay as the Donald Trump administration progressively loosened oversight of polluting industries and eroded protections for wildlife. The White House has reversed more than 125 environmental safeguards to allow for more pollution, drilling and logging. Ad Ad Most significantly, …

[ad_1] BOSTON, Massachusetts: On January 1 of this year, the Korean Workers’ Party released a report on its goals for the year, emphasizing simultaneous economic construction and nuclear development. But with the coronavirus pandemic, a struggling economy and natural disasters, the country has faced a triple blow. Ad Ad Unexpected …

[ad_1] Meat grown from animal cells without slaughter has been approved for sale for the first time. The approval, granted by the Singapore Food Agency to US food company Eat Just for its cultured “chicken bites”, is a watershed moment for the future of meat. Unlike existing products, which mimic …

[ad_1] South China morning post Hong Kong protests: new security camera footage shows student falling and dying from parking lot Security camera footage showing the moment a university student fell and died inside a Hong Kong parking lot while a protest was taking place nearby, were discovered by an investigation …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The recent United Nations decision to remove cannabis from the most strictly controlled category of narcotics is driven by the “power of money,” said Minister of Law and Home Affairs K Shanmugam on Saturday (5 December). Member states of the UN drug agency voted on Wednesday 27-25 with …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – In a world first, Singapore on Wednesday (December 2) approved the sale of a meat product grown here. The chicken bites from Californian start-up Eat Just are made by growing animal cells in bioreactors rather than raising animals on farms, and are not yet available for sale …

[ad_1] The full digital bank created by the Grab-Singtel consortium will hire around 200 employees in Singapore by the end of next year to build a strong banking infrastructure. To date, between 10 and 15 percent of the positions in the digital bank have been filled. Banking veteran Charles Wong, …

[ad_1] OAKLAND, California: A top Google scientist on ethical artificial intelligence says she was fired after criticizing the company’s diversity efforts, a claim that the Alphabet unit disputed on Thursday (December 3), in the last review between the internet giant and labor activists. Timnit Gebru, who is black, said on …