[ad_1] WASHINGTON (XINHUA) – Election day voting began in the United States early Tuesday morning (November 3) with the first ballots cast in Dixville Notch and Millsfield, two small towns in the northeastern state of New Hampshire. CNN reported that Biden took all five votes cast for president in Dixville …
Read More »SMRT, LTA ‘self-reflected’ on MRT breakdown: Ong Ye Kung
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – While there is a disciplinary framework in Singapore’s transportation network to punish errant employees, including calling the police if necessary, “keeping the team together” for the benefit of travelers is more important than imposing punishment said Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung on Tuesday (November 3). “The mood …
Read More »President Halimah Approves Additional $ 8 Billion for Covid-19 Support Package, Singapore News
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – President Halimah Yacob formally accepted the third supplemental supply and budget adjustments bill that provides for an additional $ 8 billion in support of Covid-19, President Tan Chuan-Jin said when Parliament met on Tuesday (3 of November). The bill was introduced last month and 33 deputies expressed …
Read More »Human error aggravated MRT outages on Oct 14: Ong Ye Kung
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: An “honest mistake” was one of the contributing factors to the disruption of train services on October 14, Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung said in Parliament on Tuesday (November 3). Services on parts of the Circle Line were disrupted after an initial power failure affected the North-South East-West …
Read More »Parliament: President Halimah Approves Additional $ 8 Billion for Covid-19 Support Package, Political News and Highlights
[ad_1] SINGAPORE – President Halimah Yacob formally accepted the third supplemental supply and budget adjustments bill that provides for an additional $ 8 billion in support of Covid-19, President Tan Chuan-Jin said when Parliament met on Tuesday (3 of November). The bill was introduced last month and 33 deputies expressed …
Read More »At least one Islamic State sympathizer behind Vienna attack, Austrian minister says
[ad_1] VIENNA: Attacks in central Vienna, in which gunmen killed at least three people and wounded several more, were carried out by at least one Islamic State sympathizer, the Islamic State minister said on Tuesday (November 2). Austrian interior, Karl Nehammer. In an early morning televised press conference, Nehammer repeated …
Read More »‘You’re not my mother anymore’: a divided America will fight to heal after the Trump era
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES: When longtime Democrat Mayra Gomez told her 21-year-old son five months ago that she would vote for Donald Trump in the presidential election on Tuesday (November 3), she removed her from her life. “He specifically told me, ‘You’re not my mother anymore, because you’re voting for Trump,'” …
Read More »‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ Slips Through COVID-19 Pandemic
[ad_1] BRISBANE: Ever since Li Cunxin was brought out of rural China to join Madame Mao’s elite ballet school, through his exile in the United States and now the pandemic, his life has been a reluctant pas de deux with the politics. The 59-year-old artistic director of the Queensland Ballet, …
Read More »Philippines braces for another cyclone, after typhoon kills 20 people
[ad_1] MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned of another potentially damaging cyclone approaching the country on Monday (Nov. 2) as the death toll from the world’s strongest typhoon of the year rose to 20. Typhoon Goni, which hit the provinces south of the capital Manila on Sunday with gusts of …
Read More »Singapore to stop issuing S $ 1,000 bills to reduce money laundering risks
[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore will stop issuing Singaporean $ 1,000 banknotes from January 1 of next year to reduce the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Tuesday (November 3). From now until December, a limited quantity of Singaporean $ 1,000 banknotes will …
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