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[ad_1] JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) – Indonesia seeks to vaccinate 160 million people against the coronavirus by the end of next year, an ambitious plan targeting more than half the population of a nation made up of thousands of separate islands. The government will focus its efforts on vaccinating workers in the …

[ad_1] The departure hall of Terminal 4 (T4) of Changi Airport in Singapore. Photographer: Nicky Loh / Bloomberg Photographer: Nicky Loh / Bloomberg Changi Airport Group said the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is not diminishing, as officials behind the world’s best airport warned of an “overwhelming” period ahead. Changi’s …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India’s death toll from COVID-19 rose to more than 100,000 on Saturday (Oct 3), only the third country in the world to reach that grim milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no signs of diminishing. The total deaths rose to 100,842, the …

[ad_1] HONG KONG – When China allowed Elon Musk to set up the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai in 2018, it was as if a large catfish had just fallen into a placid pond. Homegrown electric vehicle manufacturers were suddenly in mortal danger. The introduction of the industry’s apex predator marked …

[ad_1] SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a message of condolence to President Donald Trump and his wife Melania on Saturday (October 3), wishing they would recover from the COVID-19 disease, state media reported. “I sincerely hoped they would recover as soon as possible. I was hoping they …

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump has been the world’s largest driver of Covid-19 misinformation during the pandemic, according to a Cornell University study. A team from the Cornell Alliance for Science evaluated 38 million articles published by traditional media in English around the world between January 1 and May 26 …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singaporean leaders on Saturday (October 3) exchanged congratulatory messages with their Chinese counterparts to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. In her letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Halimah Yacob said that she is “encouraged that even amid the …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Singapore Management University (SMU) is teaming up with two of the best universities in Indonesia to offer exchange programs for students and faculty, as well as promoting further exchange of educational resources from the three schools. Under the new agreements that were signed on Thursday (October 1), …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump appeared in public Friday night for the first time since he was struck by COVID-19, while boarding his Marine One helicopter for a flight to a military hospital. Trump left the White House and raised his thumb but did not speak. Crew members, …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – It appears that the Lim Chu Kang area will become Singapore’s food plate, as the country intensifies its push to produce more food locally as a buffer against global supply crises. Some 390ha of land will be remodeled under a master plan to create a “highly productive, …