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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Local banks have received “overwhelming” demand for slots to exchange new banknotes before Chinese New Year in February. Its online reservation systems, which opened for the first round of reservations on Monday (January 18), experienced huge spikes in user traffic compared to last year, and spaces were quickly …

[ad_1] South China morning post Coronavirus: Is China Ready for the mRNA Vaccine Revolution? When the search for a coronavirus vaccine began, China invested heavily in what it considered the safest bet: inactivated vaccines. State-owned Sinopharm and the private company Sinovac worked with government-affiliated laboratories to work around the clock …

[ad_1] SEOUL: South Korea is in talks to buy 40 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Novavax, its local manufacturer SK bioscience said on Wednesday (January 20). The deal, if an agreement is reached, will increase the supply of COVID-19 vaccines in the country to 146 million doses, …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump granted clemency to former White House aide Steve Bannon as part of a wave of 73 pardons and 70 commutations issued in his final hours in office. Bannon, who was a key adviser to Trump’s 2016 presidential race, was accused last year of defrauding …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines received the highest rating in a global audit of airline health and safety standards amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the national airline announced on Tuesday (January 19). The “diamond” rating is awarded to airlines that achieve “hospital-level health security,” according to a press release from the audit …

[ad_1] GENEVA: The mysterious “Q” behind the QAnon conspiracy movement, which was instrumental in the assault on the United States Capitol, is in fact two people, according to Swiss experts. Swiss startup OrphAnalytics said it had used its algorithm-based machine learning text analysis software, developed to detect plagiarism, to help …

[ad_1] SHANGHAI: When President-elect Joe Biden takes office next week, he will move quickly to transform most dimensions of American politics. A glaring exception is China. But if Biden maintains outgoing President Donald Trump’s confrontational approach to the world’s second-largest economy, he will come to regret it. Ad Ad While …

[ad_1] HONG KONG: Xiaomi shares collapsed on Friday (Jan 15) after the US blacklisted the smartphone giant and a host of other Chinese firms as the Trump administration aims to cement its trade war legacy against Beijing. The avalanche of last-minute blacklists is the four-year coda of aggressive trade and …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The Trump administration in its final days took another blow against China and its largest firms on Thursday (January 14), imposing sanctions on officials and companies for alleged misdeeds in the South China Sea and imposing an investment ban on nine more signatures. The measures will further increase …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia reported a record 3,337 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday (Jan 14), the largest daily increase in cases since the start of the pandemic. Selangor state reported the highest number of new infections – 1,036 – followed by Johor and Sabah, with 460 and 389 new infections …