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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A senior professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) was fired on Tuesday (Dec. 1) for sexual misconduct, the university said in a statement. Professor Theodore G. Hopf, chairman of the department of political science at the College of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), allegedly had …

[ad_1] NEW HAVEN, Connecticut: Suddenly there is a credible case for a vaccine-driven economic recovery. Modern science has produced what must surely be one of the greatest miracles of my long life. Just as COVID-19 dragged the world economy into the sharpest and deepest recession ever recorded, an equally powerful …

[ad_1] It is described as an “ice age of employment” in Japan and “Hell Joseon” in South Korea. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused an increase in unemployment in both countries and young people, perhaps, are the most affected by the loss of jobs. Many are unable to get their dream …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – In the final days before his last surgery on November 12, Raphael Lee, a 12-year-old cancer patient, had begun to think about his own death. Feeling that “something was not quite right,” she asked her mother, Ms. Winnie Lee, 45, what would happen if her only son …

[ad_1] BEIJING: In his video address to the United Nations General Assembly in September, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a slight enhancement to China’s 2015 Paris climate agreement commitment: National carbon dioxide emissions should reach their peak before 2030 instead of around 2030. It might not sound like much, but, …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – British technology company Dyson is planning a new advanced manufacturing center in Singapore, as part of a £ 2.75 billion (S $ 4.93 billion) investment that will include the UK and the Philippines. The investments will double Dyson’s product portfolio and its adventure into new fields by …

[ad_1] South China morning post Hong Kong Policy Tackles Key Points: Cut Carrie Lam’s 30,000-Word Plan To Put The City ‘Back On The Right Track’ Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s fourth political speech was the most overtly political yet, and the longest, tying Leung Chun-ying’s record for the …

[ad_1] In 2008, at eight months of age, Raphael Lee was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma in the left forearm. He underwent treatment for this rare form of soft tissue cancer for a year and the disease went into remission. But in 2016, when Raphael was a Primary 2 student, he was …

[ad_1] LONDON: AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford acknowledged a manufacturing error on Wednesday (November 25) that raises questions about the preliminary results of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine. A statement describing the error came days after the company and the university described the injections as “highly effective” and failed to …

[ad_1] At eight months, he was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer that forms in the soft tissues. What followed was an up and down journey for Raphael Lee where the shadow of his cancer never left him, even after he went into remission. When I was in 2nd …