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[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 …

[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 …

[ad_1] SANYA, China: Millions of domestic tourists are pouring into China’s southernmost island province of Hainan, presenting a surreal contrast to scenes of gloomy hospitals, closed restaurants and suffocating home quarantine elsewhere in a virus-ravaged world. Known at home as the “Hawaii of China,” the island, the size of Taiwan, …

[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 …

[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. …

[ad_1] Jakarta. Japan has pledged to invest $ 4 billion in Indonesia’s inaugural sovereign wealth fund, marking rapid development that may be the key to the Southeast Asian country’s infrastructure ambitions. Japan was the second country to commit a specified amount to the fund after the United States ‘International Development …

[ad_1] In contrast, New Zealand captain Sam Cane donned an All Blacks jersey with the number 10 emblazoned with Maradona’s name in the center circle before performing his traditional haka. Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona. Image: Facebook.com SYDNEY – Argentina paid an on-field tribute to Diego Maradona on Saturday, with …

[ad_1] LONDON (AFP, BLOOMBERG) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will receive the coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech in a few weeks, after UK regulators granted emergency approval and the world’s first deployment begins next. week, according to reports on Saturday (December 5). The 94-year-old monarch and her husband, Prince Philip, 99, …

[ad_1] – Advertising – Singapore – For those of you who don’t know yet, K-pop superstars BTS opened their first pop-up store in Singapore on November 14, along with the stunning announcement that the exclusive store would only remain open for three months. In light of this, dedicated fans (aka …

[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, …