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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – The National University of Singapore (NUS) will bring together two of its faculties, one of them the largest, to form a new interdisciplinary university starting next year. The College of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), which has the largest enrollment in NUS of 6,404 college students in …

[ad_1] On the streets of the island’s capital, Taipei, pedestrians seem more concerned with staying out of the hot midday sun than maintaining any semblance of social distancing. Long lines stretch along the sidewalks, as people crowd into popular restaurants at lunchtime. And in the nearby parks, large groups of …

[ad_1] LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was on Monday (September 21) mulling over a second national lockdown, as an accelerating outbreak of coronavirus threatened to destroy any buds of economic recovery and send millions back into isolation. The UK already has the highest official death toll from COVID-19 in …

[ad_1] SYDNEY: China will lose access to a strategic space-tracking station in Western Australia when its contract expires, the facility’s owners said, a decision that cuts off the expansion of Beijing’s space exploration and navigation capabilities in the Pacific region. The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has a contract allowing Beijing …

[ad_1] Ms. Germaine Lim, 24, is left alone in a rented room in Bukit Batok and earns $ 1,000 a month as an intern at a construction company. Everything he earns goes toward $ 550 rent, meals, and transportation. The Malaysian, a recipient of the Tuition Grants Program (TGS), has …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Pharmaceutical firms are committed to a “science-first” approach to COVID-19 vaccine development even as pressure mounts amid a global race to end the pandemic, said a representative of an industry body in Singapore. Vaccine development is traditionally a complex task that can take up to 20 years, said …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON / NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump said on Saturday (September 19) that he supported an agreement in principle that would allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States, even as it appeared to conflict with its previous order to China’s ByteDance to divest. the video app. …

[ad_1] TIZIANA FABI / AFP via Getty Images From images of cloudy chest scans and gasping patients hooked up to ventilators, we have been conditioned to think of Covid-19 as a respiratory disease. But it’s not just about the lungs. Even from the early days of the pandemic, doctors discovered …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Washington’s crackdown on WeChat will disrupt communications between millions of people in the United States and their friends, family, and business partners in China. But the app had failed to replicate in the US its success in China as the dominant smartphone-based payments platform. Ad Ad The US …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON / NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he supported a deal in principle that would allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States, even as it appeared to conflict with his previous order for China’s ByteDance to ditch. from the video app. ByteDance …